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John And Elizabeth Proctor
967 wordsThe Crucible Essay The Crucible was a very emotional book in terms of plot. The plot was about a girl named Abigail who accuses many people of witchcraft. She also accuses Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor. Abigail uses her power of the court to get to her obsession, John Proctor, by trying to eliminate Elizabeth. She is unsuccessful in getting this done and ends up executing over twelve people including John Proctor. It is great to see all the different kinds of characterization and theme...
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Shred Of Goodness In John Proctor
1,564 wordsTHE CRUCIBLE The typical classical hero is high ranking, has admirable traits and dies as a result of some fatal flaw. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller presents John Proctor, as a character who is worthy of being praised as a hero. Though Proctor is not elevated in rank, he does meet the rest of the hero criteria, for he is a very respectable and admirable character whose flaw contributes to his downfall. John Proctor evolves as a hero through several stages. We see him throughout the play surpris...
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Hero John Proctor
730 wordsWithin the Hero John Proctor plays the ultimate hero role in the book The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, because he chooses to protect himself, his friends and his community from ridicule, humiliation and tyranny. John does this by devoting to his beliefs, breaking with the community, and dying with his own self-respect. John Proctor was a farmer in his mid 30's. He was married to Elizabeth Proctor, a cold, childish but upright woman who first cannot forgive her husbands frailties, they together ha...
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People Like Hale Proctor
1,451 wordsThe Crucible: The Characters in The Crucible The Crucible was a story with a wide range of car actors. Not only appearance wise but, with different personalities a together. Many in this play thought differently from one and other. That is why this book had a few 'twists and turns' to the story. In my profiles, I will display many different and theirs' different mentality. First I will start with Mr. John Proctor, a. k. a. 'shoulder checker'. John Proctor had always things on his mind. People we...
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John Proctor
617 wordsThe Crucible is a great play about the Salem Witch trials which history has never forgotten. What is a crucible? The dictionary has defined it as a severely difficult test or experience, and indeed the play does have a difficult test in the plot of its story. The author, Arthur Miller chose a great name for his play. It is mainly called The Crucible for one reason which comes to the conclusion at the end of the story about a difficult test a person or people must face. The basis of the story is ...
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John Proctor
738 wordsThe Crucible was written by Arthur Miller, a famous playwright of his time. Some of his other works include Death of a Salesman and A View From the Bridge. Miller has received such awards as The Gold Medal Award for Drama and the Pulitzer Prize. The character from The Crucible whom I analyzed is John Proctor. He is a father, husband and a respected, land owning member of the community. He nailed the church roof and hung the church door. He is a Puritan and is very religious. In the story, John i...
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Known John And Elizabeth Proctor
478 wordsWas John Proctor a basically good man who thought he was just having a little fun with Abigail by cheating on his wife, or was he an evil sinner who had bad intentions while having an affair with Abigail in the first place Was he or did he become a sinner or a martyr, someone who dies for their cause Well, John Proctor changes throughout the play in many ways. He ends his affair with Abigail, knowing himself thus to be a sinner, yet |he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites. X He knew from ...
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John Proctor A Character
472 wordsThe Crucible: John Proctor A character is an elaborate blend of emotions and characteristics. Eventhough the character's emotions are significant because they make an individual feel for the character may it be sympathy or anger. The characteristics are very also important because they make the character. They describe the character's nature even if they are good hearted or if they are evil incarnate. Many times there is one word that can single-handed ly describe the character's reaction or beh...
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Love John Proctor
363 words1.) 2.) Thomas Putnam is a bitter man because he is a well-to-do, handed landowner, near fifty. He was a man with many grievances, at least one of which appears justified. Some time before his wife's brother-in-law had been turned down as minister of Salem. Thomas Putnam was a eldest son of the richest man in the village. He fought the Indians at the Narragansett, and was deeply interested in the parish affairs. He undoubtedly felt it poor payment that the village should so blatantly disregard t...
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Lost Love And Revenge
431 wordsREVENGE Love is a strange thing. It is strong, free, and blind. With it come many pleasures. However, what often occurs after love is the antithesis of love. Once love is lost in a person, a barrage of feelings inhabits that person. One of the darkest, strongest, most eminent emotions that occur in a person is the feeling of revenge. The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter are both classic and dated stories that are mostly based upon love, lost love, and revenge. In The Scarlet Letter, Chillingswort...
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End Elizabeth Lives And John
1,125 wordsA True Tragic Hero According to Webster's New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, the definition of a hero is a man of distinguished bravery; a principal figure in a story. (127) A tragic hero is a hero of a tragedy, more specifically a person who either dies in the story or is defeated in a struggle with evil. The hero's downfall is usually brought upon his or herself by an error in judgment or a tragic flaw. A hero is overcome by evil, but in the course of the struggle, the hero gains...
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Beginning Of The Play Proctor
377 wordsJohn Proctor was the main character in the play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Will the truth set you free In Proctors case of choosing truth over deceit he was redeemed and set free spiritually. The setting of the play was in the 1690's during The Salem Witch Trials. During the beginning of the play Proctor was a man filled with hypocrisy but, he changed by the completion of the play into a commendable man. In the beginning of the play, John Proctor was a hypocritical man. By example, ...
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Giles Corey And John Proctor
975 wordsAct one begins with Reverend Parris praying over her daughter, Betty Parris, who lies unconscious on her bed. Through conversations between Reverend Parris and his niece Abigail Williams, and between several girls, the audience learns that these girls, including Abigail and Betty, were engaged in occultic activities in the forest lead by Tituba, Parris slave from Barbados. Parris caught them and jumped from a bush startling the girls. Betty fainted and had not recovered. During this session, Abi...
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John Proctor
843 wordsAn old proverb once said tis not the path to hell, but hell itself that is paved with good intentions. Indeed, good intentions were what lead the people of Salem Village to act as irrational as they did when they falsely accused innocent God-fearing people of witchcraft. It was good intentions that turned they good-hearted holy people of Salem to cold-blooded murders. Good intentions were also what lead to the downfall and eventually the execution of John Proctor in the play The Crucible by Arth...
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John Proctor
905 wordsThe Crucible By: Arthur Miller Arthur Miller is the author of The Crucible play. The Crucible is a story of the Salem witch trials, which took place in Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600's. The trials were a major cause for a lot of innocent peoples death. Some of the people in the town found they had control over the others life and took it to an extent. The meaning of crucible can stand for sever test or trial. In The Crucible many of the characters in the play are presented to a sever test....
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Mary Warren And Proctor
1,982 wordsPlot Summary Act 1 The play begins on Rev. Parris praying by the bedside of his daughter Betty who has turned strange overnight and will not wake. His niece Abigail enters and Parris believes he has seen her dancing in the forest and conjuring. Abigail fiercely denies conjuring but admits to harmless dancing. Mr and Mrs Putnam enter and are pleased that misfortune has befallen on Parris because they are jealous of him becoming minister over their own family. The Putnam's compare Betty with their...
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Abby And John
290 wordsWhen Abigail Williams and a few of her friends were caught dancing naked in the woods, they start trying to make excuses. Betty Williams a 10 year old daughter of a priest fakes her sickness. So the priest thinks they were dancing for satan. Abigail denies the whole thing and says they were only just having fun. The Priest doesnt buy it so Abby starts going a little insane. She starts blaming the maid Tit uba, who was there slave from Barbados, they whip here until she confesses of witchcraft. T...
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John Proctor
783 wordsJohn Proctor decided death was an honorable ending to the accusations of witchcraft as compared to being a man of no self-respect, becoming a martyr made him believe that his sins had been absolved. Proving his devotion to god became difficult when his morals were-stressed upon the start of Minister Parris's term. Inevitably, his lack of religious devotion prompted question upon him when Abigail accused his wife of sending her spirit out. These events stressed the orientation of John Proctor in ...
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John Proctor
566 wordsThere is no doubt that John Proctor was in a moral dilemma. Either he lies and says that he was in on all that witchcraft or he tells the truth. Which they may think is a lie, and he will still hang. He just isn't able to think right. He asks Elizabeth "Would you give them such a lie?" She didn't answer though. If John Proctor were to lie and say he was with the devil, he would be able to save his life. He would also to be with Elizabeth and the upcoming child. When deputy Danforth asks him if h...
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John Proctors
748 wordsAt the end of the play, The Crucible, Reverend Hale insists that John Proctor (a man in his middle thirties with a wife and two sons) design to hang instead of admitting he was with the devil is an act of excessive pride on stubbornness. I think that John Proctors last act was an act of honor. Reason being, if someone did not do something why should they say they did it and say they saw others do it if they know it is a lie. I feel that if someone has to die for telling the truth than that is so...
