Crucible Term Paper

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against his own morals, and a sinner against his Puritanical society. He was so troubled by this sin of adultery, that he came to regard himself as a kind of a fraud, although he does not show it on the surface for even a second.
Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife, is a strong woman who knows about her husband’s sin but, like John, does not let on to her secret. She spends most of the novel trying to cope with her husband’s sin and as she comes to terms with it, Elizabeth is able to once again forgive her husband and make an effort to protect him from slander. This is what ultimately gets her and her husband in trouble with the courts.
Abigail Williams is Proctor’s partner in sin. She is one of the local girls who gets afflicted by the devil. She is inherently evil and to cover up her own misgivings, she ends up accusing almost have of her community of witchcraft and convinces the other afflicted girls to do the same. To achieve this, Abigail threatens the ...

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Reverend Hale, and Judge Danforth are brought in as the prosecutors of the witches, although Hale has a change of heart towards the end of the novel and attempts to persuade Proctor to lie to save his life rather than tell the truth and save his reputation.
Some playwrights have complained that drama is one of the more naive forms of art, and even more playwrights complained that dramatic criticism is one of the most naive forms of criticism. Despite that, Miller put across in his works the old and apparently fruitless battle about the nature of dramatic tragedy. Miller dared to tackle hard subjects and the one that proved to be the most controversial of his time.
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