“The Crucible” The crucible convey themes of betrayal ‚ death ‚ and foolishness. Arthur Miller centers on Abigail Williams ‚ a troubled 17 year old girl ‚ who starts the main conflicts of the play. Her false confessions of witches convinces the local Puritans that witchcraft is among them. With false confessions ‚ her personal affairs are scandalous. Her relations with John Proctor have an effect on his marriage & his wife. In this essay ‚ I’ll center on Abigail Williams & how she affected
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them the strong willed will do what they believe is right. Strong and independent‚ Elizabeth proctor always tries to do the right thing‚ though two compelling desires and obligations pull her mind in conflicting directions; these conflicts add depth to her character and show who she is morally and emotionally. The love and obligations to her religion conflicted with the love for her husband. Convincing John to become more involved in the madness in order to try and stop it was what Elizabeth thought
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In Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ the protagonist John Proctor is a tough and sharp-tongued man who throughout the play made the audience feel enraged. Although Proctor creates chaos and captures the reader‚ he is an example of a traditional tragic hero. He uses his stubbornness to place himself in a hole‚ this leads to the truth to be unveiled and death for the common man. A traditional tragic hero can be perceived as one who makes an incorrect judgment and then results in his or her destruction
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John Proctor was a main character in Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible." He was a farmer in Salem‚ Massachusetts in the 1600’s. He was put to death when he would not admit to practicing witchcraft. Minister Dimmesdale was a main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter." He fathered a child out of wedlock in a sinful relationship‚ and fell to his death when he couldn’t take the guilt any longer. John Proctor and Minister Dimmesdale had several things in common‚ but also had several
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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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A tragic hero is a character in a work of fiction who commits an action or makes a mistake which eventually leads to his or her defeat. A tragic hero characteristics include pity and fear‚ relatability‚ goodness‚ hamartia‚ and consistency. John Proctor is definitely a tragic hero and he shows this in many ways in The Crucible by Arthur Miller through means of catharsis and a tragic flaw‚ hamartia. John Proctor is an honest‚ blunt-spoken‚ overall good person with one fatal flaw. In the play‚ he starts
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who provide nothing but benefit for society. John Proctor‚ a character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ can be classified as one of these people. As the proverbial Christ figure‚ Proctor embodies a being that exhibits a multitude of characteristics including the confrontation of the evil in society‚ temptation towards evil‚ and conjointly‚ often being persecuted and made to suffer by his community. John Proctor indubitably is a paragon of such a being as is illustrated in Miller’s play. The confrontation
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John Proctor is an individual who trusts his own judgement and doesn’t necessarily respect the ideas of other. He is a man who attracts a lot of trouble in a society that expects everyone to be the same. John Proctor is a perfect example of how experiences and choices can impact on your sense of belonging. Proctor chooses not to belong to the Salem community. The fact that he has ’sinned’ by committing adultery with the Reverend Pariss’s niece causes him to view himself as a hypocrite and not
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Miller exemplifies this well through such characters as John Proctor and Giles Corey. The Crucible tests the characters’ integrity through the severe witch trials of Salem and maintained to stay strong through the problems in which they encountered. An example of weak integrity is portrayed well through the character of Mary Warren. Mary had been accused of being a witch by Abigail Williams and instead of continuously telling the truth‚ she turned on John Proctor to save her own life. She falsely confesses
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In Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ John Proctor can be seen as a tragic hero due to his just character and his selfless act of redemption at the end of the play. John Proctor follows Aristotle’s basic ideas on the tragic hero due to the fact that he willingly dies to protect his name and his family‚ leaving the audience in a state of depression. He also portrays a tragic hero because in the end he stays true to his beliefs and brings justice to Salem‚ by ultimately sacrificing himself. Despite Aristotle’s
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