The Analysis Thesis Statement: The Main character in The Crucible has both the same characteristics as in Death of a Salesman, sharing protagonist, point of view, and character analysis. I. Character analysis 1. Death by a Salesman Willy Loman 1.Struggling elderly shoe salesman lost in false hopes and illusions 2.Wants Biff ( ... father or doing what is right Happy Loman 3. Low moral character constantly with another women, trying to find his way in life. 4. Is always the "second" son to Biff Charlie, Bernard, and Uncle Ben 5. Charlie is Loman's next door neighbor and owns own sales firm and ...

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... said I've never wondered what my parents were thinking when they came up with a name as complex in spelling and articulation as mine. But behind the endless mispronunciations and the routine misspellings, it's still my name. Similarly, that is why I believe John Proctor destroyed his confession. No, not because people were misspelling his name ... , but because he encountered a defining moment. I believe that at that very climax amidst all disorder, the only vision in his mind was that of four little letters. Four little letters that when placed side by side in that perfect order showed ...

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... Analysis: John Procter from "The Crucible" Often in true tests of ethical character would be where humans are tempted to be untrustworthy, to deceive, or take advantage of one anther, and then there are a few who succeed. The story of "The Crucible" gives one of the strongest tests of ethics, where the real ethical are punished and those of low ethics have the ... but also for friends. The test of truth for John Proctor's character lives at the end of the trial. Proctor is asked to sign a deed admitting his betrayal with the devil but he denies to sign after he has confessed to his affai...

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... in to nineteen innocent people losing there lives. Many American's in the 1950's were blacklisted and had their careers ended by the accusations of Joe McCarthy. Miller himself was dragged into the spot light by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was put in the exact same place were John Proctor had been in "The Crucible". Miller was asked to give a list of names of people ... , his name was known everywhere. Just as Abigail stumbled on to the power of Witchcraft, to get what she wanted, namely to get Elizabeth Proctor off the scene. She exploited the gullibility and the desp...

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... , and he also refused to admit to witchcraft, which led to his being hanged. Miller was dragged into the spot light by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was put in the exact same place were John Proctor had been in "The Crucible". Miller was asked to give a list of name of people who he had seen at a communist meeting ten years before. Another ... name was known everywhere. Just as Abigail stumbled on to the power of Witchcraft, to get what she wanted, namely to get Elizabeth Proctor off the scene. She exploited the gullibility and the desperation of the people. She soon rea...

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... , people were saying we were summoning the 'Devil!'. To what was simply a game, soon headed towards disaster. Betrayer! Dear diary, sorry I haven't written for a while but things are a mess in Salem. My lies have spread like wild fire and many people are about to be hung for it. But my love for John ... Elizabeth then John will surely never be mine "Mary You're weak, pathetic testifying against me. How could she? She has been with me since the start!" As we were in court with Mary, we claimed that she was a demon! Seeing Mary like this gave me great satisfaction out of her ... John ...

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... unhappy catastrophe that occurs, next a spectacle resulting in a well-formed plot and lastly a tragic hero (protagonist) must be in the story. With the induction of these three elements a well-written tragedy has been created. The first element is an unhappy catastrophe, which can be easily, described by a quotation by Abigail, she says, "Uncle, we ... a pattern that rises, climaxes, and then falls. In this story however there are a lot of mini plots that occur. After the conclusion of this dancing, accusations of witchcraft arouse from all over the town. Here in a quotation Abigail says...

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... that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. Arthur Miller had rewritten the Witch-hunt that had occurred there in 1692 into a fictional literary piece. The play The Crucible used the historical witch-hunts with fictitious characters to subtly question the actions that the government was taking to prevent communist spreading. It all began when Abigail had accused several people ... to people believing witchcraft was at work and was violently spreading, much like the communism hype and hysteria in the US. Many innocent people in The Crucible w...

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Analysis The characters in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, strive to achieve true individual freedom. Personal freedom is an attribute searched for by the characters in The Crucible. For example, John Proctor notices while talking to Reverend Parris that," There are many others who stay away from church these days, because you hardly ever mention God any ... more."(925). Proctor shows his disappointment freely to Parris of the reasons for not attending church on the Sabbath. For more reasons than one, it is understandable that Proctor is disappointed in Pa...

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... this was a case of witchcraft and his opinion influenced others. His influence was carried into the year 1692 when the people of Salem village had suspicions of witchcraft. The people of Salem Village looked back at the Goodwin children and related them to events happening in their own town. The two girls in the family of Reverend Samuel Parris- daughter, Elizabeth (9) and niece, Abigail Williams (11)- began ... a tavern keeper and Elizabeth was his third wife. Ann Putnam was not one of the first to become "afflicted" but rather Abigail Williams along with Elizabeth Parris was. In reali...

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... tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. This is a beloved errand for him; on being called here to ascertain witchcraft he has felt the pride of the specialist whose unique knowledge has at last been publicly called for." Hale, at first, is enthusiastically absorbed in finding suspected witches ... the witch-hunt. Regrettably, it is too late for him to save all the suspected witches because Danforth and the theocracy have no interest in seeing their proceedings exposed as a sham. The failure of Hale's attempts to turn the tide of the trials causes the once-confident Hale to change into ....

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... his job, but if you continue to analyze said hints and clues you come to the same conclusion, it is inevitable that he is going to quit. At the beginning of the story it starts off with Sammy noticing three girls walking into the store as he rings up a customer. Updike is descriptive to portray an image ... to the reader of how Sammy sees these girls when they first walk in, and how he is dealing with the customer he seems to hate ... . "I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell ... faint. Sammy goes on to say "I forgot to say he thinks he's going to be manager some sunny...

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... was old, quarrelsome, and had not attended church for over a year. The Putnams brought their complaint against the three women to county magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne. At the examinations, the girls described attacks by the specters of the three women, and fell into their contortions when in the presence of one of the suspects. Other villagers came forward to offer stories of cheese and butter mysteriously ... gone bad or animals born with deformities after visits by one of the suspects. The magistrates, in the common practice of the time, asked the same questions of eac...

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... after asking her why she hasn't been requested to work for another family, the duplicitous girl vehemently exclaims, "Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!"" (12). This went on seven months before the events of the play began. She had established her "good girl"" reputation earlier in Act I. The girls had gone into the forest the night before to conjure up Ruth Putnam's dead sisters and have their fortunes ... her only choice is to get rid of him as well, before he exposes her for the fraud she is. She seizes her chance when Reverend Hale begins to side with Proctor, "Abigail, with a weird...

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The Destructive Nature of Reputation in the Crucible An Analysis Reading the events of the Crucible I found to be the most relevant theme to modern society, to be that of reputation. This theme seems to have a foothold in every aspect of a social dynamic, ancient and modern, and appears to be one of the most damaging aspects of the human condition. Reputation, which is closely linked to ambition ... , has been the cause ... but of civilization. In the Crucible there is a clear link between the reputations of the powerful, and the deaths of the innocent. The most prevailing character that plays...

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... name becomes, unfortunately, flawed by past mistakes that have yet to be unearthed. He wishes to atone for his past sins, and when he gets past the obstacles of his pride and reveals his horrible truth - in an effort to save his wife from death - he comes to meet his unfortunate fate. ... several ways, that Proctor has a strong character "stalwart in personality and unwavering in his beliefs, and quick to correct the uninformed. The latter may be a fault, in fact, as Miller also illustrates in the same exposition, " a Proctor is therefore marked for calumny."" This is further foreshadowi...

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... to a group of her friends concerning heathen rituals they were performing in the forest near their strict, Puritan village in Arthur Miller's dramatic play, The Crucible. The girls, led in their conjuring by a black slave from Barbados, were discovered by the minister of the town of Salem, Massachusetts in the spring of 1692. The minister, Reverend Samuel Parris, immediately contacted Reverend John Hale of Beverly who ... was an expert at discovering the Devil in his many disguises to investigate the possibility of witches in Salem. In the course of the play Rev. Hale undergoes a transfo...

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... produced by regretful actions. John Proctor's past actions with Abigail Williams causes jealousy. John had an affair with his maid Abbie. It was due to the coldness he was recieving from his wife, Elizabeth. She soon became aware of their behavior and fired Abbie with great hate. Proctor breaks it off with ... that John wanted Elizabeth more than her and soon her hatred grew and grew. But Elizabeth was still angry with John and had the same feelings for Abbie. Soon after all the accuzations began, Abbie had Elizabeth accused of witchcraft. This was an action taken out of a hate and jealou...

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... say that they are witches to save there lives. Many of these people were well respected in the community and or had lots of land. Some of these people were called witches because they had a higher rank in the community. There were poor people who were called witches to because some people did not like them ... because they would not say they are a witch so they could not be saved. So they would be hanged, Goody Osburn was one of the first accused for witchery and one of the first to be hanged for it. She said she was innocent but no one believed her. Just like Martha Corey she say she i...

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... all which is very important he has power over important situations in his and his wife's life. I believe John Proctor became a better person and had some power throughout the play. At first I didn't believe that Proctor loved his wife. He cheated on her with Abigail. You don't do that to someone you love. Elizabeth wasn't stupid ... she is a women so she has no right to be called by her name when her husband is mad. That shows some kind of power. If it was the wife mad I"m sure she wouldn't call him man. If it was me that was called women I would think it was very disrespectful. When Eliz...

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... Analysis John Proctor A local farmer who lives just outside town; Elizabeth Proctor's husband. A stern, harsh-tongued man, John hates hypocrisy. Nevertheless, he has a hidden sin - his affair with Abigail Williams - that proves his downfall. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed and his good name ruined. In a sense, The ... they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. Ruth Putnam The Putnams' lone surviving child out of eight. Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a ...

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... about her wants and needs. She wanted John Proctor to herself and wished for the death of Elizabeth Proctor so she could take her place. That was the only reason why she provoked the witch trials by falsely confessing and ruining people's lives. As for the second person up on the villainous list, I chose Thomas Putnam. His only reason for starting and holding up with ... innocent lives. He was a cold and cruel man. Then comes Ezekiel Cheever. He was a tattletale. Cheever told on Proctor by saying "When we came to take his wife, he damned the court and ripped your warrant". I wouldn't sa...

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... it out of mind. We never touched, Abby" (Miller, 1999, p. 1099). John says, "We never touched, Abby," this means that he does not acknowledge the adultery. "I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again." which expresses that he will literally cut his hand off to keep his marriage with ... Elizabeth alive. He won't betray Elizabeth again by committing adultery with anyone. John is a very strong character who won't let the one wrong he has done go on to hurt him. He has put it behind him and John and Elizabeth are on better ground than they were before ... .. Therefore, Joh...

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... my client John Proctor. Corruption through personal gain, honesty, and political knowledge are just a few of the reasons why John proctor is innocent. The court needs to look beyond prior judgments and events of the past and see the truth which I will prepare before you. Corruption in Salem started not only from people being jealous towards ... him." God does not acknowledge those who sin against him and will see to that they be the ones who suffer. Does God reach down and grab those who have sinned and pardon them? NO! He lets them endure the perils of Earth. When God brought man to th...

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... are many theories as to what caused this hysteria, all of which come to together to prove that ignorance can be very dangerous. Strict purtian faith was one cause of the trials.The scare started early in 1692. Several village girls began to behave strangely. They crawled under tables, uttered weird sounds, and screamed that they were being tortured. Puritans believed that ... any form of peculiar behavior, immoral action, or negativity of any sort was directly associated with Satan. Suspicions of witchcraft soon led to the arrest of three women. More arrests followed. There is also evid...

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