... upon by hysteria. The title of the play being The Crucible, the term "crucible" is never actually mentioned. The word crucible, in simplest terms, means "a trial." Although the play is based around a series of court-trials, Miller chose it as the title to mean a severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial within oneself. Many of the characters in The Crucible face difficult decisions, or crucibles, piecing together the story. The first crucible to take place ... people declaring their good opinion of Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Proctor, and Martha Corey. He chooses helping his good frie...

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... an affair with John Proctor, she shouted out John Proctor's wife Elizabeth's name. By accusing Elizabeth of being a witch she would be out of the way for Abigail, because Abigail still loves John and wants him back. We see that Abigail wants John's wife Elizabeth dead in Act 2 pages 50 - 55, where Elizabeth says to John, "she wants me dead, John, you know it ... !" This shows that Abigail has accused Elizabeth of being a witch because Abigail wants Elizabeth dead, so that she can be with John. This is a very tense conversation between Elizabeth and John, as Elizabeth is trying to identif...

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... upon by hysteria. The title of the play being The Crucible, the term "crucible" is never actually mentioned. The word crucible, in simplest terms, means "a trial." Although the play is based around a series of court-trials, Miller chose it as the title to mean a severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial within oneself. Many of the characters in The Crucible face difficult decisions, or crucibles, piecing together the story. The first crucible to take place ... people declaring their good opinion of Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Proctor, and Martha Corey. He chooses helping his good frie...

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Do you remember a time when you had to make a decision, but you didn't want to choose either choice? During the play, The Crucible, many big decisions were made. Some were good decisions and some were bad, but they were all very difficult to make. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in which many people are accused of witchcraft and have to make big decisions ... that may affect their life. Rebecca Nurse was a character in The Crucible with a big decision to make. Rebecca had eleven children and twenty-six grandchildren. She has been around so many children that she decides to hel...

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... 's house, Cheever found a doll that had a needle in it in the same place where Abigail said she was stabbed (Act 2, Scene 1). This shows that Elizabeth uses a form of witchcraft to harm Abigail. This is because Elizabeth does not like Abigail. As a result, Cheever found Elizabeth's doll that she used to hurt Abigail. The Crucible had a lot of conflicts which were mostly related to either witchcraft or ... harming others. For example, the power of witchcraft was too much for this small town in Salem. This ... shows that people were going crazy. This also shows that witchcraft broke the c...

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... Salem, Massachusetts. Does witchcraft still exist today? In the Crucible, plenty of different stories circulated of people changing, being arrested, and just simply accused. Arthur Miller, the author of the Crucible, shows the transactions that the characters go through using direct and indirect characterization; He shows how Abigail's manipulation, Proctor's withholding, and Elizabeth's loving character develops through out the play. Abigail's manipulative personality made Salem's citizens do things unimaginable. As ... by standing up for things, and going against her personal morals o...

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... Proctor, a married man. Abigail worked as a servant to the Proctors", and during that time Abigail and John have an affair. Elizabeth Proctor suspects that something was going on and let Abigail go. Abigail is in love with John and is willing to do anything to get him back, even leading to witchcraft. In The Crucible, religion and superstition runs through the town leading everyone in the town in mass ... hysteria of the evil that may take over. The beginning of the play starts out when Parris, the town Reverend, says that he saw ... a number of the town girls dancing naked in the fore...

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The Crucible A topic of The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is how John Proctor's adultery eventually makes him a better husband. Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. First, John Proctor willingly commits adultery with Abigail and Elizabeth is aware of this as well. Proctor sees Abigail as a child and Proctor says: "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time ... .. Therefore, John and Elizabeth try to forget this incident but that won't be able to happen. Well the person in the foyer of the pastThehangers Next, in Act ...

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... out in to the children the middle of court. The Salem citizens would get blamed for giving the girls stomachaches and headaches, for coming to them in the middle of the night and not letting the girls sleep. The innocent people were also accused of murder. In my opinion this story The Crucible portrays many different themes in which are all shown threw the actions of the Salem citizens whether ... it many be the accusers or the citizens itself. Revenge is shown through Abigail's attempts to have Elizabeth hung. Greed ... is shown by the attempts to receive land by hanging someone portr...

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In the Crucible written by the famous play write Arthur Miller lying was an enormous obstacle many characters dealt with throughout the story. The one character that stood at most to me was Abigail Williams. There were three incidents that I noticed Abigail's unreliability being shown through her actions and words. One of the ways Abigail's unreliability was shown was when she denied having had an affair with John Proctor. Abigail becomes ... her frame Elizabeth Proctor and make her look like she has a voodoo doll. They accuse her of carrying a doll and stabbing it in the court. Danforth-"Whi...

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... the Salem witch trials of the late 17th century, The Crucible discovers the Difficulties of a changing society and the difficulty of doing good in the face of evil and a lot of social influences, both at the social and personal level. John Proctor, the protagonist of the play, is faced with the choice of accepting responsibility for his actions and doing the ... slave. It's a bitter woman, a lying cold sniveling woman, and I would not work for such a woman!"(12) This is the first we hear of Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail lies without shame, threatens without fear, and thinks of nothing of sti...

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Abigail Williams is the vehicle that drives the play. In the Crucible, Abigail Williams represents the main antagonist. She is uniquely gifted ad spreading death wherever she goes. Abigail has a scary and eerie sense of how to control and manipulate others, and her abilities in this are shown multiple times throughout the play. In Act One, her ability to manipulate others is put on full display. As soon ... as she's on the ... . After persuading Tituba to cast the spells, Abigail still stabs her in the back by pinning it all on her. The spells made were of course on Elizabeth Procter. Ever si...

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... Witch Trials began, it had been almost eight months since he saw his mistress, Abigail Williams. Throughout the play, Proctor struggles to redeem himself while also trying to save his wife from being hanged and fix his marriage. In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, John Proctor has damned his soul as a lecher and seems to be trying to find forgiveness within his self ... . In the first scene with Proctor and Abigail, John makes it clear that their relationship was a mistake and will never happen again by ... state of depression that he knew was caused because of him. Then, Reveren...

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... Miller uses an abundance of irony in his play, The Crucible. Irony in The Crucible is shown at almost every aspect of the play. The fact that the Puritans are supposed to be good, strong and spreading the good ways of God is ironic in itself. In the play it shows the Puritans accusing, blaming and holding grudges against each other. The Puritans should have been going to church and helping ... ghosts are cases of dramatic irony, since, while the audience knows that the girls are lying, most of the characters do not. For example, in court, Abigail and the other girls pretend to be attack...

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... will do everything to pursue their own personal gain. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller illustrates and demonstrates the extent that personal vengeance can have on a society where townsmen accuse their own. The trials in the Crucible take place against the back drop of a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their ... their rivals are beyond wrong, that they are in league with the devil. Abigail, the original source of the hysteria, has a grudge against because Elizabeth fired her after she discovered...

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... powerful color imagery to emphasize the struggle to conform to a society. The town portrays good and evil as a dichotomy, white or black. The color black is used traditionally to represent evil, taking the form of sin and the Devil in 'The Crucible.' Black can be interpreted as to represent the entire spectrum of corrupt behavior, where a character such as Abigail is often associated with darkness, ... threatening to attack the other girls "in the black of night," and the stain on her name and ... reputation. In direct contrast, the color white is associated ... ...

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... and that John feels like Elizabeth has not yet forgiven him and continues to punish him for his sin. As the story continues and Abigail makes accusations of witchcraft against others in Salem, we learn that the leaders of the court and town think Abigail is a credible person. They believe every charge she speaks of and throw those she accuses, including Elizabeth Proctor, into jail ... . John is troubled by this as he knows the type of person Abigail is by the sin they committed together. In order to allow the court to see Abigail for who she really is, John confesses to the court the re...

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... they generally regret. It could be from pushing your little sister to stealing a sucker from a candy store. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor has great remorse about a feat he committed in the past. He learns that former actions come back and effect him later in ways he would never imagine. Jealousy and ... hate could be 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 fire...

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... of literature have been written describing the events that led to the hysteria like Salem Witchcraft by Charles W. Upham and The Salem Witchcraft Delusion by Alice Dickinson. Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is another example. The events described in The Crucible and the actual Salem Witch Trial events are closely related in that both portray the reasons for the start and end of the hysteria. The historical Salem Witch Trials all ... opinion influenced others. His influence was carried into the year 1692 when the people of Salem village had suspicions of witchcraft. The people of Sale...

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... were caught up in their own web of superstitions and fanatic religious beliefs. In the novel, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the people of Salem were cowards, nobody stood up against the system to save their name, for fear of accusation. The character John Proctor portrays a middle-aged farmer of the Salem village, who dies to save his name. His actions in an adulterous situation ... led to his heroic intentions towards the conclusion of the play. Previous to the opening of the play, John Proctor and Abigail ... Williams engaged in an adulterous relationship, however not without regret...

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... 's "The Crucible" the pride of the people of Salem leads to a massacre of innocent lives. Pride is delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship. One of the main characters, John Proctor, has pride in his beliefs of purifying the Church of England. His wife, Elizabeth, has pride in her ability to use the trials as an ultimate revenge against Abigail Williams. John Hale is the "expert ... is his source of pride. He sees himself as the person come to save the lives in the New World. As the case progresses though he starts to doubt himself and realizes that he had ca...

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... the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, there is a strong and good character that gets caught up in a big mess that in the end will bring him to his death. He owns his own farm and lives with his wife Elizabeth and has 3 sons. All his problems started out when they hired this young lady to do there cleaning around the house. Her name is Abigail ... Williams some call her Abby and John ends up having an affair with her and then tells his wife about it and she fires her. This is the start of all his troubles cause then Abby and a couple of her friends dance ... affair, something that h...

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... mind can have a big role on people. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, John Proctor's dealing with the devil eventually leads him to confessing much like Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The power of the human mind led these two to eventually confess into the sins that they both had done so easily before. In The Crucible, John Proctor is a man that does not go to church regularly. He ... do not attend church regularly. Her husband states that he does not believe in the local priests "hellfire and bloody damnation,"(Crucible 1187) sermons and that is why they do not go to church. Whe...

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... Proctor, being considered important, and her fear of getting beaten or even killed were her chief motivations of accusing people in this play. Abigail's dislike of certain people was obvious and could easily be seen by the reader and the audience. She disliked these people because of what they might have done to her or because she was jealous of them. One of ... the people that she despised and also was jealous of is Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail was jealous of her because she loved John, Elizabeth's husband. Abigail was jealous and therefore if Elizabeth died, John would come to her, or s...

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... The Crucible, people conform under pressure in the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The witch trials bring about the secrets and flaws of the people in Salem, and are not about witchcraft at all. Everybody has an enemie, and the accusation of witchcraft is an easy way to get yours hung. In Salem, if a citizen suspects and accuses someone of witchcraft, they are immediatly guilty in the ... she was unsucsessful.. When the witch trials begin, Abigail sees an oportunity to move Elizabeth out of the way. Abigail notices Marry Warren making a doll for Elizabeth, and uses it to pin witchcr...

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