Alexis Wauford Mrs. Hollewell The Crucible 11 May 2017 Importance of Reputations in The Crucible The desire to maintain an upstanding reputation greatly affects characters in The Crucible. During this time period, people were very concerned with their positions in society. They were in a very judgemental community where everyone knew each other, and because of this, people were very worried about how others perceived them. A poor reputation could cost someone their social life and many characters
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not hold her a strong point in her life as she quickly abandons them for survival. In addition, in act II, a similar event is displayed by Mary Warren where she is forced by the peer pressure of Abigail to set up a plot to frame Elizabeth. When she is caught by Elizabeth and Proctor she explains, “‘She’ll kill me for sayin’ that!
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who was working for the Proctor household at the time, stood up to Elizabeth, which had shocked John Proctor. Elizabeth said to John, “It is a mouse no more. I forbid her go, and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince and says to me, ‘I must go to Salem, Goody Proctor; I am an official of the court!’” (Miller 1163). Before Mary gained this boldness from the witchcraft trials starting, she was described by Elizabeth as a mouse, quiet and
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protecting his wife, and teaching his three children an admirable lesson “I have three children--how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I have sold my friends?” (143); Elizabeth has been suffering in prison due to the consequences that came out of John’s affair. Judge Danforth had to use Elizabeth to convince Proctor to confess to taking
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lying and Elizabeth couldn’t forgive him for it. Elizabeth could not stand that John betrayed her with Abigail. Elizabeth lost all her trust in John. She imagined John still thinking about Abigail and their time they were together even though he is not with her. Just the thought of John and Abigail being together broke Elizabeth’s heart. She couldn’t understand how John would do that to her because she couldn’t imagine ever doing that kind of a thing to him. Abigail has charged Elizabeth with attempted
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She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a—(I.202-205).” Abigail has a lot of pent up anger towards Elizabeth. She now not only wants her out of the way so her and John can be together but also for speaking badly about her intown. In Goodnight and Goodluck, A man by the name of Joseph McCarthy goes on a temerarious campaign to root out the communist in the
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A constant theme of “The Crucible” is the importance of reputation. Danforth, Proctor and Giles all have the motive to keep their reputation, even if it kills them. Judge Danforth makes a point how important his reputation is with his power in court. John Proctor refuses to confess his adultery and sentence innocent people under his name to death. Giles Corey ends up dying because he speaks up for his wife who is innocent. Every single one of these characters keeps their importance of reputation
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In the beginning Abigail was intimidating and believable. She was the leader of the girls and they did anything she told them to do. They only went along with the lies because Abigail told them to. She threatened to kill them if they said anything other than what she had told them to say. At the beginning of the play and story she was believable, throughout the movie everyone believed even though some knew she was lying. They didn’t want to say anything because they knew she was going to
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At the ending of Act Two, Proctor and Elizabeth find out from Mary Warren that she was convicted by Abigail and furthermore is affirmation that she is trying to get rid of Elizabeth to be with Proctor. Because Proctor and Elizabeth have some shape or form of devotion to each other, Proctor turns from guilt, to anger to solve this false evidence concentrated against his wife. “You are
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Elizabeth fired Abigail for having an affair with John, but that’s not what Abigail had everyone believe. After she was fired from the Proctor house she went to her uncle, Reverend Parris, and said she quit because she didn’t want to be Elizabeth’s slave. As a result of the affair, Abigail put a big strain on Elizabeth’s marriage and Elizabeth was cold towards John. Abigail even went as far as calling Elizabeth horrible names, she said to John,”She is a
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