The Crucible Internal Conflict

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in Salem Massachusetts in the 1600s, where a theocracy was in place at the time. The book is a fictional retelling of the Salem witch trials which took place during 1692 and 1693. The story follows a farmer named John Proctor who cheated on his wife with a young girl named Abigail Williams. John’s infidelity to his wife causes him to feel guilty about it throughout the events in the play. Another significant character in the book is Reverend Hale, who came from Beverly to Salem so that he could give his expertise on the topic of the witchcraft. When Reverend Hale arrived, he sparked the fear of witchcraft in the people of Salem. Once the trials began and the amount of people accused of witchcraft increased, Hale started to feel guilty because he was part of the reason why the trials started in the first place. In Act 4, the final act of the play, both Reverend Hale and John Proctor were trying to resolve their inner conflicts.

“The Crucible” is a play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play starts in the woods, the characters Abigail, Betty, Tituba, Mary Warren, and Mercy Lewis were casting spells in the forest. Samuel Parris catches them in the woods and Betty passes out. They go to the Proctors house to make sure Betty is okay. Parris is contemplating on what the town will think of him when they find out what has happened. He tells Abigail to tell him what happened in the woods. Abigail tells him they were dancing.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It all started when Reverend Parris discovers a group of girls dancing in the woods. After he found the girls in the wood, his daughter Betty fall ill. Since Betty wouldn’t wake up, people become paranoid and started believing that witchcraft was real. Fake accusations were made and innocent people kept dying. In The Crucible there are many people to blame for all for everything that occurred, characters such a Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, and Reverend Parris. Abigail Williams is to blame because she accused everyone else just to protect herself. Reverend Hale is also blame because he was the one who got people to think that witchcraft was real. Lastly Reverend Parris is to blame because he was just worried about himself and his reputation in Salem.

The Crucible is set in the seventeenth- century Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trial. It starts of with Reverend Parris, a man very concerned about his reputation, accusing his orphaned niece Abigail Williams of taking part in witchcraft after his daughter is unconscious after dancing in the woods. A technique used by Parris is characterization, which utilizes the thoughts, actions and dialogues in the construction of characters. Arthur Miller uses characterization to build the character of Reverend Samuel Parris as arrogant , selfish, and deceptive.

The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witchcraft Trials. In the town of Salem, Massachusetts, ninety one people were accused of witchcraft. A group of girls were caught dancing in the forest one night which is what caused the witchcraft trials. The group of girls started accusing people of witchcraft and the ringleader of the group was Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams had an affair with John Proctor then accused his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, of witchcraft so she could be with him. Although Judge Danforth was responsible because he sentenced people to hang but the person ultimately responsible for the deaths in Salem is Abigail Williams because she accused people of witchcraft, accused people for her love interests, and threatened people

The Crucible takes place in the early England colonies in Salem, Massachusetts during what we know as the witch trials. It is based on a group of girls involved in “witch like” activities, who begin to accuse others of committing witchcraft just so that they do not get into trouble. One girl controls the group, Abigail Williams, and she plots against Elizabeth Proctor who is married to John Proctor, who Abigail had an affair with. Due to these childish and dramatic acts of Abigail and the girls, half the townspeople were taken to trial and found guilty of witchery and worshipping the devil and were sentenced to hang. Not till the end did the townspeople realize their mistake about the accusations, which turned out to be false.

The Crucible is a powerful and disturbing drama based on a true event in American history: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The Salem Witch Trials is about hearings and prosecutions of people who were accused of witchcraft. The play is written by Arthur Miller, who writes about a town minister, Reverend Parris and how he discovers his daughter Betty, niece Abigail, and other girls dancing in the forest with his slave Tituba. Betty faints in fright at being discovered, and will not wake up. Multiple people insist it is witchcraft, but, is it really? Abigail William, Parris’ niece, is the key character as to why they ended up the way they did, she is motivated through greediness and social status, causing her to react with extreme and irrational tactics; along with accusing people as an act of selfishness, and doing anything in order to not gain a bad reputation. She is the source of everything that goes wrong in the play, and the attempts to defend herself from the consequences of her own actions, end up ruining many people's lives.

Abigail plays the role of the victim rather persuasively. To some readers, she may seem as though she is the one who all of this witchcraft and conspiracy is harming. That act of innocence is prevalent when she is talking to John Proctor. Proctor tells Abigail that his wife Elizabeth is a good woman. Abigail then cries out, “She’s blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bent to her!” (22-23). The statement makes the reader believe that Abigail has done nothing wrong, when in all actuality, she is the one who is lying in her attempt to cover up previous acts and crimes she committed.The jealous girl inside Abigail is revealed early in the story. Once Betty awakes from her nap, she and Abigail get into a heated discussion about the extent of what Mr. Paris is aware of. Betty is frightened and outraged when she yells, “You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife” (19). When Betty states this, it becomes evident what Abigail’s motives are for her actions and words. Abigail also told Proctor, “John -- I am waitin’ for you every night” (22). Abigail is so blinded by her love for John that she does not care nor realize all of the tragedies she is causing and all of the innocent lives being taken because of her own greedy motives. Elizabeth Proctor knew once she was accused of witchcraft that Abigail was

The Crucible is set in 1600s Salem during the Salem Witch Trials. The story starts with a group of girls dancing and making a potion.The character Abigail had an affair with John Proctor. While the other girls were making a love potion Abigail wanted a charm to kill John’s wife. The day after two of the girls act as if they are under a trance, Reverend Parris sends for Reverend John Hale who to investigate if there is any supernatural causes. Abigail starts falsely accusing people of witchcraft, leading to many people being hanged. In the end Abigail gets away and John Proctor is hanged. Reverend John Hale is the most dynamic character, because he changes from being a strong believer of witchcraft to being skeptical, then to being regretful.

The Crucible is a play, written by Arthur Miller in 1952, and set in the 1600 in Salem, Massachusetts. The play is about a witchcraft trial that involve almost all the Salem’s inhabitants. The witchcraft panic begin when Abigail William and her group of friends are discovered dancing in the wood during the night, and two of the girls got sick after that.

Some people think a lie will just fade away and nobody will find out but little do they know the truth always comes out. Lying only makes a situation worse not better and in this play it shows why lies can put you in a serious or dangerous situation. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller relates to the salem witch trials and is based on a small village that believes there are witches running around the village using witchcraft to turn people against god and sell themselves to the devil. In the beginning Mr.Parris, the father of Betty Parris is kneeling down beside his daughter Betty because he believes that the girls has used witchcraft and caused his daughter to behave strange. This leads him to question Abigail to find out what went on in

The crucible is a play where the small town goes into the witch trials. This happened because some girls were caught dancing in the woods with a black slave named Tituba. After this people started to blame the girls for being devil worshippers. There are a bunch of tirls that went on during this time and neighbors turned on each other and so did friends. Because of the witch trials many innocent women and fellas died. This story was all about how the town of Salem feared the devil and felt threatened by the wilderness. In the crucible individuals are trying to convince society of the truth. Example Giles Coreys wife gets accused of witch craft because she reads a lot. The reverened has her arrested then she has to face trial. John Proctor and

The Crucible is a play in which three girls are accused of witchcraft. The play is based on the time of the Salem Witch Trials. Comparatively, this was a time in history where

Arthur Miller’s intense play, The Crucible, used historical figures and events to mimic the witch trials of Salem, and it touched on religious, justice, and the supernatural which stirred up a mixture of hate, lies, and forgiveness. The Crucible took place in 1692 in the theocracy government of Salem, Massachusetts. (LadyElisabeta. Theocracy in the Crucible. 2008) The play begins with Reverend Parris discussing alleged acts of witchcraft performed by his niece, Abigail, and his assumed possessed daughter, Betty. Abigail denies, but she was apart of this to curse Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor who had an affair with Abigail. Throughout the play the truth begins to unfold, but many were falsely accused and had to face the judge.

The play titled The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in the town Salem, Massachusetts, in 1693. The hysteria begins when Betty falls into a coma-like state after dancing in the woods with others and being caught by her father, Reverend Parris. The town is startled as the witchcraft rumors spread, causing Reverend Parris to send for an expert, Reverend Hale. Both reverends begin to question the participants including Abigail, Tituba, and Betty. Although they denied it earlier they begin listing off names of townspeople, Tituba confessing it herself. Meanwhile in the Proctor house a glimpse of the problematic marriage between John and Elizabeth Proctor, that has been ruined by John and Abigail's affair. The reverend appears at the house