I think one of the characters that changes the most throughout the book would be Giles Corey. At the beginning of the crucible everytime something goes wrong everyone thinks its Giles fault. Giles has been in court over 30 times, but overtime in the book Giles changes into a much better man. Giles said, “ I never said my wife were a witch, mister Hale; I only said she were reading books.” This is where everything that happens Giles thinks it's all blamed on him. Like he thinks they are accusing his wife for witchcraft. So he is making himself look bad because he thinks everyone is blaming him for everything, but really they are trying to help him out. Where I think Giles finally grew up to be a man and a good guy was when he was about to
In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller his character Reverend Parris goes through many conflicts during the play. The conflicts that Parris goes through causes him to change and is overall a dynamic character when it comes to it. Through acts one through four his attitude changes toward everything and he becomes a different person. In act one and two of The Crucible it starts out in Parris’s house where his daughter Betty lies inert on her bed.
I believe the in the Crucible John Proctor is the most dynamic character in the Crucible. John Proctor is a father of the Proctor family, he doesn't attend church every sunday but only a few times a year and he states that his house is a holy house. John said to John Hale he helped build the church of Salem and put golden candles to light the church. The reason why he doesn’t attend church very often is because once you give people something they need later they're coming back for more becoming greedy. And he tells John Hale he still remember the ten commandments but leaves out adultery because he has cheated on his wife with another lady.
In this scene the reader gets a taste of another Giles Corey encounter of humorous behavior. Miller uses Giles to commence comic relief many times in the play in order to sort of budge the reader and say “hey you can laugh a little”. Giles character is of which you would say is a prideful yet brave individual that says whatever he wants in order to bring the play from a meditative tone to a more giddy tone. Miller does an excellent job to making this character accomplish this rhetorical device by adding Giles humorous lines in the most serious parts of the play such as here when he is making his claim to try to get his wife out of jail because she is innocent. He says that this is not a hearing and they can't arrest him unless he is in the
They have been charged with witchcraft. They shall be hung for not confessing to their wrongdoings. In the book the Crucible it's about tragedy it Arthur Miller wrote about how it was scary back in the 1690’s. People were charged with witchcraft for doing nothing really. Anyone could just accuse you of it and you could just be called guilty right there.
This quote from Leo Tolstoy explains how individuals in the book “The Crucible” changed in every single Act. All they did was judge other characters in the book but,did they ever think how they were also a part of the conflict. Never. Because everybody thinks they’re perfect but the reality is, nobody is.
In this essay there are a couple of things that need to be analyzed, the subjects that are being analyzed is how a few of the characters have changed or stayed the same throughout the play. The Crucible is about the Salem witch trials which got nineteen people killed because of a lie made up by a bunch of children. The play takes place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years of 1692 and 1693. During this time there was a group of young women who were caught dancing in the woods and instead of getting in trouble they made up the lie that witches made them do it. That is just a background on what this essay will be about.
Many aspects of one's life can change over time, people’s attitude, opinions, thoughts, the way they look, etc. There are times where people don't change. In literature and media most characters change and learn from their mistakes. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible like many plays and media, characters learn from the events that happen and change based on what happened. Reverend Parris, a character in the book, does not change, despite what events happened in Salem.
One key person in The Crucible with ideals that completely changed from the beginning is Reverend Hale. In the beginning Reverend Hale came in believing that he was the ultimate authority on witches. Later on in the story, Hale was shaken by the arrest of Rebecca and the eventual arrest of John where he quits the court. Hale at the end does not believe in religion, but tells others to have faith. Reverend Hale from the beginning to the end is almost a completely different person; this is shown by him coming into the story being the authority on how to find witches, then he is shaken greatly by Rebecca and John’s arrest, and finally by him not having religion but keeping faith.
A character that I thought of as a very static one, was Reverend Parris. Throughout the book I saw the changes in his actions, most notably when Abigail ran away in Act 4. In Act 1, Parris was concerned about his reputation since we first learned about his character. (“ He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went.”)
The Salem witch trials did not only influence the characters changing, but it also affected the outcome of the Trials. Proctor Changed by becoming more Honest with himself. “He was the
In the Crucible, many of the characters go through changes because of the intensity of the situation. But there is only one character that I think changed the most, and that is John Proctor who is the protagonist of the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I think that John Procotor changes the most in the Crucible because he is in every act and mostly in every scene, and throughtout the play I see more drama (Dynamic Character) in him than any other character in the Crucible and I will go through and tell you how John Proctor changes in the Crucible. In the beginning of the play (Acts 1 and 2), we focus on John Proctor and we know that he is a good puritan citizen, a hard-working farmer and who is a husband and father.
Reverend Hale is the character that changes the most in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible because his feelings on witchcraft turns from full belief to unbelievable doubt, his thoughts on Proctor changes from thinking that he is evil to thinking that he is a good and honest man, and he switches from doing God’s work to doing the Devil’s. Reverend Hale makes a huge change on his claim of witchcraft. In the beginning of the play when Reverend is called to the town of Salem to see if the reason why Betty and Ruth are unconscious is due to witchcraft he brings with him many books. When Reverend Parris sees this he makes a comment that Hale responds to him explaining his expectations. This shows that Reverend Hale is focused on one thing, finding
Giles Corey is one of the most notable victims of the Salem Witch Trials. Corey was born in Northampton, England, in 1621. After marrying his first wife, Margaret, the two migrated to the Thirteen Colonies, settling in Massachusetts Bay. In 1659, Corey relocated to the Village of Salem and soon thereafter, became a successful and well-known farmer.
Several people are heroes in The Crucible because they are brave and morally strong. First, someone who is a hero is Martha Corey. She is falsely accused of bewitching Walcott’s pigs, but does not confess and lie because she is morally strong. Her husband tells Hale that, “Walcott charge her … He goes to court and claims that … Martha bewitch them with her books!”
“Character Analysis over The Crucible” Arthur Miller is a commonly-known playwright, most famous for his 1953 play, The Crucible. The basis for The Crucible came from the witch trials which occurred in Salem, Massachusetts during the puritan era. Miller even uses some of the same characters in his dramatized play that were a part of the original witch trials in Salem. However, Miller made a few alterations to the historical members of the Salem society in order to suit his dramatic purpose in The Crucible, particularly Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Reverend Samuel Parris.