The Crucible Essay Prompt

The Crucible Essay: Prompt #1
The Idea that negative events affect your brain more dramatically can be seen in the short story The Crucible by Author Miller,.Another way your brain deals with negative events is to protect your reputation for fear of uncertain consequences. In this story two characters I’m using that are concerned with their reputations are Abigail and John Proctor. John is a tormented individual he believes his affair with Abigail damaged him in the eyes of god and he had a wife named Elizabeth and he wanted to commit adultery. Abigail was a maid at the proctors household and had an affair with John.
Their situations are different because Abigail still likes John but, he wants nothing to do with her. There relationship is explosive and they both had an affair. This affects how Abigail and John acts because they were both

guilty and Abigail,proctor looses his good name. He dreads to reveal his sin because guilt and regret overwhelmed him. Proctors decision was to tell the court everything about the affair so he can protect his wife from getting killed because he loves her.

John Proctor was a victim of witchcraft and his wife was sick so he hires a maid named Abigail.

She seduces him and he feels guilty. He had to confess his sins to the court and to Elizabeth that he was sorry for his actions. He admits the truth, even though Abigail wants him to lie but, John is a good person because his reputation is at risk with Elizabeth. Proctor protects his wife from him dying because him escaping of death wouldn’t be good for his reputation. I see him as a hardworking person and a nice person.

Elizabeth Proctor is a good woman she is married to John. who is having affair with the maid. Elizabeth fires Abigail and after that happens Abigail starts to do witchcraft on Elizabeth making her sick and almost dying. She is a woman of the church and his reputation is a risk when the city finds out about the affair, Elizabeth blames herself, which isn’t fair because it’s not her fault, of what they did. she decides to let John go because he cheated on her and she doesn’t trust him anymore at the end of the story John saves her and they killed him. I see her as a nice person that loves her baby and her

husband.

It’s really important to understand how your brain might cope with negative events because negative events can be damaging where people start to blame themselves for bad decisions.those bad decisions can hurt yourself image and damage your reputation in the public eye and make you not sure about who you are.No,a good name is not more important than the truth because it’s better telling the truth, then hiding it because you can be risking your life then having a good name that doesn’t really matter.