Compare And Contrast Essay On The Crucible

Today’s society is extremely different from the society of the past. Today’s society is more in favor of physically visualizing something happen than actually reading and mentally visualizing. The movie, The Crucible, does a better job in portraying characters than Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. The movie does a better job because it better helps visualize the whole ongoing conflict. This visualization allows for more emotion towards each individual character and also allows the movie to seem more dramatic than it actually is.
Nicholas Hytner makes it easier for the audience to visualize the scenes. The movie contains a scene in which Abigail comes to see John Proctor before his execution. Being able to see the seen occur bring more emotion

to the audience. This emotion that starts to form makes the scene more tragic and dramatic. On the other hand, visualizing it in your brain does not make it as emotional as it may be. The movie makes John look like a tragic hero while the play does not.
The movie contains a scene where the girls and Tituba were dancing and singing in the forest. The book does not make that a scene. The characters only refer to it. That scene in the movie allows the audience to be able to foreshadow about the characters, while in the book the audience can’t foreshadow about the characters. Nicholas allows the audience to make their own judgement about the characters.
On the other hand, some people say the play, The Crucible, did a great job with developing characters. This point of view makes sense because it provided a descriptive beginning that gave an idea about a few characters and it gave a summary of what is happening. However, the movie did an even better job because you were able to see the acting of the characters that gave you an idea of what each and every single one of them were like. Therefore, the play did provide character descriptions but it did not do as well as the acting of the characters in the movie.
While, the play, The Crucible, did an good job on developing and presenting characters, the movie, The Crucible, did an outstanding job on portraying and developing characters. This is because the movie allowed a visual picture for the audience. It also brought more emotion and feelings toward individual characters and allowed the audience to judge the characters in whatever way they wished. Nicholas Hytner and Arthur Miller both did excellent in their own works but Nicholas outdid Miller’s work.