Compare&Contrast The movie “Just Ask My Children” and “The Crucible” are similar to each other in many ways. In “The Crucible’, the girls did not want to get in trouble for dancing in the forest and conjuring spirits so when it came to the courtroom they started blaming other people .
The Puritans arrived in America in the 16th and 17th centuries hoping create a purified version of the church as they believed the Church of England had still had too many components of catholicism. Humans are also invertly evil and this wickedness is displayed throughout many stories. Finally, moral values are also a central conflict to many stories. Puritanism, the evils of all humans, and moral conflict are a central themes to all three of The Crucible, “Young Goodman Brown”, and “The Minister’s Black Veil”. Although these stories are seemingly unrelated stories on the surface however when considering the under-the-surface meanings of these stories many similarities appear including the impact of Puritanism, the wickedness of all humans, and moral conflict.
Humans are born to be afraid. A feeling of fear is only natural for humans to feel; it is a part of who we are. However, it can be more than just a feeling. Fear can be a weakness in humans even though it is only our natural instinct for survival. Sometimes, fear is so powerful that it can blur our rationality and dominate how we think and what we do.
The Crucible was based in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The book starts off with Reverend Parris finding the girls in the woods dancing. Upon finding them Betty Reverend Parris’s daughter and some of the girls become ill. Abigail Reverend Parris’s niece tells him that when he found them in the wood Betty was so frightened when Parris found her she fainted and won’t wake. With Betty and the other girls unable to wake rumors of witchcraft start around the community.
The crucible was written during the red scare when the U.S. feared communism many were questioned and imprisoned based on them being communist spies or supporters. Arthur Miller himself was questioned and imprisoned based on him being a supporter of communism. This changed and altered the way he wrote the play to give notice to the situation around him. For example, Hale left and only later came back to help the convicted. This represents all the people who questioned the situation around them but did nothing to help.
When in conversation, statistically speaking when someone is lying, they won’t make eye contact with a person they’re talking to. In this essay, I’m going to go over the differences and similarities between John Proctor and Abigail Williams from the book “The Crucible”. This paper will contain the differences in personality, emotions, and actions they take. Likewise, it will also contain similarities in these listed traits. To start off I’ll begin with their differences in personality.
Shawn Jande Ms. Clancy American Literature B3 15 November 2015 The Crucible Analytical Essay Imagine, being accused of a crime you didn’t commit by your neighbors and friends out of jealousy, and desire. This is what many people in the town of Salem had to go through during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. People's motives such as: gaining and maintaining power, and aspirations for what other people had caused them to make irrational, and atrocious decisions. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, desire and power drive characters to create chaos in the community.
The screenplay was done by Arthur Miller, so this means any changes in the movie were specifically made by Arthur Miller himself. In this paper I will be going into depth about the differences between the movie and play. The play opens in Reverend Parris’ house, he is on his knees by his daughter Betty. The movies first scene is a bold scene. It depicts many girl running into the forest where they cast spells on boys to make the boys like them.
The to thing that I will be compare is a wrinkle in time the book by Madeleine L’ Engle to the movie made in 2003. The book is somewhat like the movie. Like the how Meg think less of herself she even thinks that she is dumb but she is actually really smart. The also go to a place call camazots and there the people there are under the control of IT. Also the plot has the same theme that no matter what evil it is love will over come it.
The Crucible The Crucible is a play, written by Arthur Miller that's been performed by many people for many years, for example The Benjamin School Drama club. The Crucible movie and play have both share similarities and some differences. Starting off with the scene were Tituba confesses to something she didn't do. In the play Tituba confesses right away when they start pressuring her but in the movie they whip her into confusion. In the play they bring Tituba inside to talk to her but in the movie the drag her all the way outside to whip her into her confession.
In the play along with the movie The Crucible, John Proctor and Abigail Williams have interesting relationship bound by adultery and lies. Abigail becomes obsessed with John and will do anything to be with him. John quickly shuts down her fantasy ideas and tells her that what happened between them was a one-time thing that will never take place again and a mistake on his part. With this knowledge, she soon spends all her time plotting to get John all to herself and to make him fall in love with her, even if that means taking out John’s wife, Elizabeth. We see many examples of this forbidden relationship through their secret encounters and arguments in both examples of the story, still, there were more scenes of John and Abby alone in the movie than in the play.
When people recall, thoughts and comments raced through their mind. In the Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, some of the same similarities and difference people found between the play and movie that really happened at Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Discovered the play has more details than the movie, but the movie can make us have more sense. The play and movie are alike in several ways.
One Choice Can Change Lives Who knew one seemingly innocent lie could cause 19 deaths and pit an entire town against itself? That’s exactly what happens in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Authors often use similar plot devices, and their favorite one is having their characters face a test. In a small town called Salem in early America, something terrible is happening.
As time has passed, throughout history, during different periods of time there are parallels. There are three eras that we are focussed on, where there are three types of people during each era. The three different eras that we’re focusing on, are The Salem Witch Trials (1600s), The McCarthy Era (1950s), and Today (2000s); the three types of people are the people who are the reasons why there’s accusations towards the accused, the accused, and finally the accusers. In The Crucible, or during the Salem Witch Trials, the person that’s the reason why characters were accused is John Proctor. The accuser in the play, who decides to point fingers at everyone, is Abigail Williams.
The threat of Communism and the Red Scare put fear of group mentality into many people during the late 1940-50s. The authors of 1984 and The Crucible used their respective works to comment on the social injustice going on in their own lives, which connects to injustice the exists throughout time anywhere in the world. Miller wrote his play, set in 1692, about Puritans and the Salem witch trials because he believed that, similar to his trial for HUAC in the 1950s, the trials in Salem were caused by false accusations and mass hysteria led by powerful individuals. In 1984, Orwell creates a world in the near future that shows group mentality and its threat to conform society with the government.
