John In The Crucible

The role of John in this movie, is one that many men wish they could pull off in real life. He is charming, and still manages to maintain a secrecy about his personal life. Although his tactics to court women are a bit odd by some standards, they work flawlessly with Elizabeth, an art gallery employee, whose role often changes from love interest, to a seemingly side hobby.

Elizabeth seems to be weak minded throughout the entire film.
Getting over a divorce from a man, that she still sees at work due to her coworker dating him.
After John purchases the scarf he sees her observing, and gifts her with it, she is his

John treats Elizabeth as a doll or a child in almost all situations.
In the movie we see John feeding Elizabeth multiple

times, and he even brushes her hair.
Elizabeth is made to walk over to gifts when they are presented by john.
Showing John’s beginning of dominance in the relationship. After a few dates, they eventually go all the way. John then begins to introduce Elizabeth to the type of sexual activities he enjoys.

As long as Elizabeth complies she is shown a favorable life. John treats her with expensive dates, and showers her with gifts. He shows her very little about himself, and yet she has complete trust in him, even allowing him to blindfold her, and have her strip in front of him.

Elizabeth is presented to be easily manipulated, and afraid of losing another love interest after her divorce. Finding out her coworker is dating her ex husband could be the reason for her intense jealousy throughout the movie. She becomes jealous very easily, questioning John multiple times about other women in his life.

After being with John for a short amount of time she is already emotionally attached.
She depends on him for a affirmation that she is loved, and her new desires. Her low self esteem causes her to be very emotionally vulnerable, making John's dominance easy to pull off. He is easily able to convince her that she likes it.

John is able to make her do anything he wants. He cares nothing about what she feels, or her personal opinions. John is able to make Elizabeth buy a coat for herself, without asking if she liked it not. Elizabeth lies in sexual positions on John’s command, in front of others.
Elizabeth even steals on John's command at one point.

Due to her jealousy Elizabeth continues to question John about his other women.
Later ensuing in the movie, John eventually informs her that she is not the only one. Though disappointed Elizabeth still stays. Further proving John's influence over her, her poor self esteem, and her lack of will to leave John although he never is open with her, and entertains others..

John gifts Elizabeth with a watch, and tells her to think about him at a certain time.

Elizabeth takes it a step further by masturbating at the given time. This could be seen as a sort of hypnosis, and another way for John to manipulate her. Elizabeth does not make it difficult either,
Believing his sweet guy personality, she is willing to do anything.

It becomes obvious that John has manipulated Elizabeth's already vulnerable mind.
John leaves her home alone at his apartment, and due to Elizabeth's jealousy, she searches through his items. When going through his closet she finds a picture of another woman.
When John questions her when he calls, she first hesitates but then soon admits the truth. John then tells her he is compelled punish her. Seeming darker over the phone, John's punishment for her is actually escalated sexual activities.

Elizabeth begins to become reluctant to John's intense sexual activities.
This does not go over well with John, who then sends her to a downgraded motel.
It looks as if John wanted to show her that he does not need her, he has others willing to do what she is not. We see Elizabeth blindfolded, as another woman begins to touch Elizabeth in sexual manners. When Elizabeth's blindfold is removed she sees another woman making out with

John.
This sparks Elizabeth's jealousy, causing her to attack them both.

Elizabeth storms out of the hotel in a jealous rage, with John following after her.
She is emotionally wrecked by this time, and is confused by john's tactics. She storms into a room full of men with pornography playing on a T.V., and kisses another man in front of John.

Elizabeth begins to think further ahead, about starting a family, and settling down.
We see her watching kids play, and have fun, and can assume that she will want children one day.
It is obvious this is not quite what John wants yet. John does not even have interest in meeting any of Elizabeth's friends. He’d rather only have the night with her to have sex.
This makes Elizabeth's minor role in John's life even more visible.

Elizabeth still knows nothing much about John, after nine and a half weeks.
It does not seem that John plans to tell her anything else about him.
He is content with just having sex, and someone to control as if she were a side

hobby

After waking up in a empty bed, John finds Elizabeth gathering her things.
In an attempt to get her to stay, he begins to tell her more about himself.
What John tells Elizabeth, are the simple things that you learn when first meeting someone.
He tells her how many siblings he has, where he is from and where his parents worked.
Elizabeth then informs him that it is too late.

In conclusion, Elizabeth's own will of wanting to start a family, and begin a new life broke her from doing john's will, and following everything he says. She realized that relationship was only temporary, and doing what John says will not earn her what she wants for herself, but will only please John. John's role in her life was to help her grow, and move on from her past.