Dallas Ritschard Elizabeth Proctor Changes. Everyone goes through many different changes in their lives. In The Crucible‚ written by Arther Miller‚ many of the characters go through changes‚ such as Elizabeth Proctor. The Crucible actually means a severe test or trial. Elizabeth is one of the characters in the story who goes through a small test of faith and honesty. Elizabeth is introduced in act two of The Crucible. She asks John “What keeps you so late?”(Miller191) This statement suggests
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In the movie‚ The Crucible‚ Abigail wanted to marry John Proctor. In order for her to have John‚ she had to have his wife dead‚ the only way for his wife to die at the moment was to be accused of witchcraft. Abigail started to accuse people of witchcraft along with all her friends‚ she blamed the slave they had‚ and even some of the people she liked. Abigail kept getting her way and kept accusing‚ then she accused the Proctor family. John didn’t like Abigail accusing them for something she knew wasn’t
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John Proctor is leading a double life according to one local farmer. Mr. Joe Smith claims to have seen Mr. Proctor behind his barn with Abigail Williams last Friday night. Proctor is said to have gotten close to Abigail that night and many nights before. The two have previously been seen during late night hours alone near the forest‚ but are now being more risky with their affair seeing each other during all hours of the day. When Proctor’s wife‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ was asked about the affair
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Discuss the importance of the character of Elizabeth and consider how Miller makes us respond to her throughout the play (30 marks) Throughout the Crucible Miller uses Elizabeth‚ who is a pious character‚ as a judge of character. Through her eyes we learn who is innately good such as Rebecca Nurse‚ we learn that John Proctor is a tragic hero whose fatal flaw is that he is “somewhat bewildered” and that Abigail truly is “a whore” with an “endless capacity for dissembling”. The audience trusts her
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and its people. Specifically‚ Proctor describes how he confronted Elizabeth towards her beliefs about him and Abigail " I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail‚ and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more "(p.50).
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How does Miller present the relationship between Abigail and Proctor? In The Crucible‚ we follow the adulterous and turbulent relationship between Abigail Williams and John Proctor‚ and watch it change and develop throughout the play‚ from Abigail trying to reinstate the affair in Act 1‚ to John Proctor confessing and therefore destroying it at the end of the play. John Proctor is an honest‚ plain-speaking local farmer. He is an impressive presence in the room‚ being described as ‘a man in his
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The meaning of the word “Crucible” has a huge role in the personality of the characters in the story. A crucible is defined as a severe test or trial. It applies to each character throughout the story‚ but mostly to John Proctor.. In many ways‚ the crucible that John faces change his character enormously. After John Proctor has an affair with Abigail Williams‚ he is filled with guilt and he does not have the self-respect to forgive himself for what he had done. He is bothered with his disgrace
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on the sabbath day and not do any physical labor for the rest of the day. If one was to judge John Proctor by these standards‚ they would look at him as a man who is not holy and will not go to heaven after he died. He made bad decisions‚ and caused the people that were closest to him much strife. However‚ John Proctor was a honest man that is willing to do what is right rather than what was easy. “Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties”(Applebee et. al. 175). He was not considered to be upper
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To what extent does John Proctor conform to the ideal tragic hero in “The Crucible”? The most well known definition of a tragic hero comes from the philosopher‚ Aristotle. When explaining a tragic hero‚ Aristotle states "The change in the hero’s fortunes be not from misery to happiness‚ but on the contrary‚ from happiness to misery‚ and the cause of it must not lie in any depravity but in some great error on his part." Also‚ he explains the four essential qualities that a tragic hero should possess
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John Proctor in the Crucible The novel The Crucible takes place in a small town in Massachusetts named Salem. The town is extremely strict and there is little you can do‚ so everyone lives under serious morals. Throughout the story there is a lot of accusing‚ betrayal‚ and hysteria over witch craft after three girls are found playing in the woods. Since‚ Betty‚ reverend Parris’ daughter‚ ends up being ill after that incident they blame it on witchcraft. John Proctor is a farmer who is married to
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