The Crucible: Betrayal

1.Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a story of betrayal. 2.Elizabeth displays how hurt she is when her husband Proctor tells her, “She told it to me in a room alone”(1. 193). 3. John is speaking about Abigail, and how she told Proctor about everything that happened with the girls of Salem being accused of being witches. 4. During this time Elizabeth is feeling hurt, and betrayed by Proctor because she knows Proctor had an affair with Abigail. 5. Elizabeth begins to realize her husband has not been telling her the truth when she says, “Why, then, it is not as you told me”(2.193). 6. Elizabeth had suspected Proctor, but she never thought to question her husband without proof, but when Proctor begins to show signs of infidelity she gains the courage