Parris questions Abigail after she tells him to deny the use of witchcraft; he sarcastically asks her if he should tell them about the dancing in the woods (Miller 7; act 1). Abigail caused the trials because Reverend Hale
In Salem, there was a belief that there were dark and evil forces at work. Even though they weren’t spiritual forces, there was evil intent in Salem. There were different kinds of evil in Salem. In some instances, revenge was the main fuel for the trials. In other instances, greed motivated people to do evil.
Reverend Parris is a middle aged man, who we first meet in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, around his late 30’s or mid 40’s. He has a high status. He is the one of the town pastors. Parris has a ill daughter, Betty Parris. Who he discovered dancing in the forest with his teenage niece, Abigail Williams.
The ironies in “The Crucible” When many people think of “The Crucible” they think of the irony in the play. There are many different examples in the play, including the minister, the Puritan religion, and the killing of Salem’s finest people. The minister in the town of Salem, Reverend Parris, is a very egotistical and paranoid person. Parris is always concerned about himself and his reputation around the town.
Imagine being accused of a crime one did not commit and not being able to question authority or fight for the truth. In the powerful play, “The Crucible”, Aurthur Miller demonstrates the use and abuse of authority in the Puritan Society. During the Salem witch trials in 1692, the role of authority was tested. As far back as one could remember people in authority were always known for dominance and being in command. One might say he/she has supremacy over others.
In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, he writes about a story of witches in Salem, Massachusetts. The play is about a group of young girls who control the village with the fake pretense of having seen the devil and who he has worked with John Proctor and Reverend Parris are two characters within the play who both have similar experiences to each other. The story teaches us that different actions lead to different circumstances. Reverend Parris is the uncle of abigail, one of the girls in the wood who chanted.
We often seen someone is only care about himself, they don’t care about others even their family and they always have excuse of it. Reverend Parris is a kind of this person. “The Crucible” is about the Salem witch trials. Starting with several young girls claim to be afflicted by witchcraft and then accuse people in the town of witchcraft. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller shapes Parris’s character as a very selfish person, and everything he did was to keep his good reputation in the village and to get rid of anyone against him, which drives him mad.
Reverend Parris is a character in the story called “The Crucible” which is written by Arthur Miller. Reverend Parris is a important character in “The Crucible” and plays a big role in how the story plays out. He is a very smart man and has a okay reputation with the people in salem. He has three major character traits that sticks out throughout the story that makes him make the decisions he does.
Parris is a very self-centered man and is very embedded in his place in the community. He is a preacher for the church of Salem and his niece and daughter have been “bewitched” or so he thinks. Parris believes what he does is just and that no one should oppose him. This is also why he refuses to let news about his niece and daughter get out, he doesn’t want people to overthrow his position. Parris is a static character due to his nature of unchanging personality wise throughout the crucible, he is always self-centered.
During The Crucible, the Witch Trials caused many court hearings. A good deal of the court hearings consisted of people over exaggerating outbursts of demons inside of them just to get somebody convicted. The Witch Trails also affected the church in many ways. Reverend Parris’ already had a wicked reputation as their minister, and the trials made it even worse. People wanted him out of the church.
He understood that the spectacle would raise suspicion of witchcraft among the people of Salem, and he would be implicated. He eventually took advantage of the situation to protect his position and punish a faction in the community that he suspected actively opposed him. Parris seemed glad when the girls started mentioning people they saw with the devil because it distanced his family from the situation. The focus was redirected at those who were mentioned by the girls. Parris can be blamed for setting a tone for his daughter and the people that will make them hysterical; As well as trying to point the finger at other people, to make sure no one blames him for what is going on.
There is a connection between the Salem trials and current political drama in 2017. During the Salem trials, people were falsely accused of witchcraft and in the current political drama, it's the same except instead of witchcraft the word is ‘extremism’, regardless of political alignment. Reverend Parris is to be held more responsible for the injustice that occurred in Salem. Parris’ ignorance, remorselessness, and arrogance caused the escalation of unjust killing of the people of Salem. Parris’ constant defending of his niece, Abigail, during the court trials blinded him from the possible truths to uncover the fear and lies Abigail put into the girls, Parris knew the girls were dancing in the woods, and he tried to prevent evidence to be heard in the court.
Reverend Parris was the uncle of Abigail Williams and all he wanted was to have a good reputation in the community. At the start of the Crucible the girls were dancing around a fire in the woods in the middle of the night which was perceived as conjuring spirits during the salem witch trials times. Reverend Parris was in the woods and saw the ceremony going on and when the girls got caught they scattered around. Normally that would be reported immediately and the punishment to the girls would be getting whipped. To keep his reputation reverend Parris kept it to himself until the very end of the movie when he reluctantly told governor Danforth because reverend Hale and John Proctor brought it up.
Reverend Parris shows the first example of the importance of reputation in the Salem. In Act I, lines 63-66, Parris discovers the girls dancing in the forest; he recognizes the threat of witchcraft that has formed in his
Witchcraft: Child’s Play or Reality? In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible’, witchcraft is the main conflict of the play. Set in a Puritan Massachusetts Colony in the year 1692, most anything that cannot be solved by the church or a doctor is unnatural. The first thing that comes to mind is witchcraft, which the punishment for is hanging unless you confess.
