People often get stumped on whether or not they truly love their significant other. They often wonder if they’re with the right person. Sometimes it’ll take some kind of a push to actually feel love between you and your significant other. In the play, different people have different opinions about Elizabeth and John’s love life. I believe that they genuinely did love each other. Even though Elizabeth mentioned that there wasn’t true happiness in the household, the audience could tell that they legitimately did care about each other. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, he utilizes pathos and logos to show how Elizabeth and John’s relationship progress throughout the play.
After Elizabeth gets arrested, she claims that she is pregnant and uses that as a way to get out of getting executed, this is one way that Miller used logos and pathos in his play. Elizabeth and John have finally come face-to-face after they have both been arrested: “He reaches out his hand as though toward an embodiment not quite real, and as he touches her, a strange soft sound, half laughter, half amazement, comes from his throat” (Miller 123-124). Clearly, this is how John reacted to Elizabeth’s pregnancy. He also
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John has just ripped up his signature and has given his final speech: “Elizabeth, in a burst of terror, rushes to him and weeps against his hand… He has lifted her, and kisses her now with great passion” (Miller 133). As soon as Elizabeth realizes that John is going to die, she quickly runs over to him and cries. The audience can clearly tell that she has loads of emotion going through her right now. Then, right before John gets taken away, John takes Elizabeth and kisses her with great passion. This is Elizabeth and John’s tremendous moment. This is where the audience finally sees the top moment of their progress. This is the moment where they show that they actually cared about each
Abigail and John’s affair seven months ago is still causing problems between Elizabeth and him. There’s a lot of tension in one of the beginning exchanges between Elizabeth and John. “Elizabeth: ‘Then go and tell her she’s a whore. Whatever promise she may sense- break it, John, break it.’ John:
Elizabeth and John start to feel the tension when Elizabeth tries to convince John about going to court and persecuting Abigail but he refuses. When he disputes with his wife he argues, “you will judge me no more Elizabeth I have good reason to charge fraud on Abigail and I will think on it” (193). Proctor is not completely satisfied about throwing Abigail under the bus because he doesn’t want to initially hurt her and he would lose his respect in the town if he did. So he isn’t convinced about the fact that his wife is trying to get him to charge fraud at this point of the play. Soon afterward Mary the proctor’s servant comes home with news that Elizabeth has been convicted of witchcraft as well and was arrested by the sheriff in town to be brought to the trials.
In the first scene of the second act of the Crucible, Elizabeth is with John. John reveals that he was with Abigail and he admitted the betrayal. There are many different ways Arthur Miller enforced his claim. Through emotional appeal, figurative language, and tone, the author has successfully used literary elements to support John’s argument with Elizabeth.
Is there any idea worth more than a human life? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor decides that he has nothing left to live for, and therefore becomes a martyr. The question for him or one in his position would be whether or not there exist causes worth dying for and if his position is one such case. There is no principle worth more than a person’s life and therefore principles worth dying for, only principles worth living for.
Elizabeth Proctor is used in The Crucible to illustrate the powerful strength of what manipulation has over any living mortal. Typically an honest person under their religious faith would believe in telling the truth, but not while having an evil thoughts being whispered in your ear disguised as manipulation. Already knowledgeable of her husband’s previous affair with Abigail Williams, Elizabeth fears of ruining the Proctor name in the town of Salem, Massachusetts due to John’s affair and since John is a high authority figure in the church, it would ruining his name and people would not respect him as a preacher anymore. So in the process of saving the Proctor name, regardless of John admitting the truth by making the court aware of the recent affair he had with Abigail, Elizabeth denies those allegations because she fears that John will be upset to the utmost point, so she sacrifices herself to protect the Proctor name, even though she fears that she hopes that she made the right decision, as shown when she tried to clarify all statements be...
John later says to Elizabeth that " My honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man. Nothing's spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before"(136) and rather confess then die for something he flat out did not do. However, as John confesses, he decides that he can not allow Danforth to make it officially documented. As Danforth asks him why John answers with a cry " because it is my name.
Through time it can be seen that the world’s history has a nature of repeating its self. Author Miller, was aware of this as he experienced a repitition of history of society’s flawed government. In the text The Crucible, the writer, Author Miller has identified and illustrated the problems society faced during the 1950’s setting by drawing parallels with the setting of the 1962 Salem witch hunt. This setting helps readers to understand the characters of John Proctor and Giles Corey.
Cruelty is actions leading to the pain or suffering of others, sometimes intended. Throughout society we use cruelty as our reaction to another’s mistake. Cruelty may also act as the source of these mistakes resulting in social, political and personal motivators to others to be cruel. In the movie, The Crucible cruelty acts as crucial social, political, and personal motivator. The antagonist Abigail Williams utilizes cruelty to hide her past faults. Abigail’s cruelty was stimulated by cruelty from John Proctor, the protagonists. Cruelty reveals more about the victims of her than Abigail herself. Cruelty is a continuous cycle that plays a key role in the movie’s overall message on reputations, power, and guilt.
The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it's doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I. Introduction: The play is based on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late 1600's in Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the people's fear of what they felt was the Devil's work and shows how a small group of powerful people wrongly accused and killed many people out of this fear and ignorance.
During the Elizabethan era marriage was like a business contract, if the money is there then so is the signature. Love was never a part of the play and this showed in both Hortensio and Petruchio, who Shakespeare uses to expose this superficial approach to the supposedly romantic notion of marriage.
During the film, The Crucible, the adaptation of the script to the film is portrayed very well. The acting during the movie compares to the text in various ways because a visual is created for the viewer during both. They are similar because most of the scenes are characteristic traits are the same. However, the dissimilarity is shown in the whole movie by the differentiation of Abigail’s character traits. In the play, Abigail is portrayed as the antagonist, as she is in the movie, but throughout the movie, Abigail was given a role that portrays her to be more dramatic than in the play. Another example would be the emotions of Elizabeth Proctor when speaking to her husband at the end of the movie. In the play, Elizabeth shows little to no emotion
John Proctor is Elizabeth Proctor husband. They live together for more than ten years, but their relationship seems to be awkward. Personally, I would rather think they owe each other than they love each other. John feels ashame to Elizabeth because of Abigail and him has an affair. And John become unhappy every time when Elizabeth talk about Abigail. The mistrust between John and Elizabeth seems to be more and more serious. When the chaos occurs, he hesitates to tell out the truth because he worries that his secret with Abigail will be exposed and his reputation will be ruined. Elizabeth and John proctor’s interaction seems to be weird. “He gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it.” This is just not how a old-couple
In The Crucible, it is clear that John Proctor did not feel love for Abigail. Proctor states, after Abigail insists he speak to her out of love, “Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.” With such a weighty statement, Proctor confirms that his affair with Abigail was merely due to his own lust and weakness. However, in The Scarlet Letter, Hester finds herself in love with the object of her affair. Rather than simply using Dimmesdale for physical romance, Hester also develops a strong love for him, “‘Thou shalt forgive me!’ cried Hester, flinging herself on the fallen leaves beside him. ‘Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive!’” (The Scarlet Letter, 175) Clearly, Hester seeks Dimmesdale’s approval desperately, as one does only for those they truly care for. Hester feels a true love, unlike Abigail’s lust, which causes her view to be distorted. Judith Orloff puts it best, saying, “…lust is fueled by idealization and projection--you see what you hope someone will be or need them to be--rather than seeing the real person, flaws and
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a short film where cruelty functions as a crucial motivation and a major social factor. In the film there was a lot of cruelty going on and helped shape the theme. There were some cases in the film that cruelty showed characteristics of a victim or one of the characters. Cruelty was apart of puritan aspects and it revealed that John didn’t care what he had to go through to save his soul.
In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, many characters all expressed different personality’s. For one, Reverend Pariss portrays the Id. The Id mainly consists of impulses that demand satisfaction. “The id contains all of our most basic animal and primitive impulses that demand satisfaction. It’s the Mr. Hyde emerging from the restrained Dr. Jekyll. It’s that little devil that sits on your shoulder, whispering temptations and spurring on you.” (Understanding) Throughout the play, Reverend Pariss demanded decisions to be made based on his opinions and personal convenience. “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba” (Miller 44) By saying this, Reverend Pariss wanted people