The Crucible Book Vs Movie

The Crucible essay

The movie recreating The Crucible written by Arthur Miller does a great job bringing everything to life. When reading a book, the reader oftentimes have a certain idea of what the character would look and sound like. When I read the book followed by watching the movie, I found that the characters that I had created in my head were perfectly matched by the actors and actresses that featured in the movie. Although the movie and book are very similar and show few differences, the handful of things that were changed, or added in the movie tend to stick in our brain rather than the similarities.
Almost everything that I noticed while watching the movie was spot on to the book. One thing that was sure to grab my attention was the scene with Mary Warren and Abigail in the court where Mary attempts to convince the whole court that Abigail is lying. The group of girls follow

They turn and immediately give all of their attention towards a certain“yellow bird.” As Abigail points and yells, the girls are sure to follow just moments after. Once Mary starts to beg and plead for Abigail to stop the girls mimic Mary word for word. Abigail later on uses that “yellow bird” to frame Mr. Proctor. She puts on an act to make Procter look like he forced Mary into falsely confessing the girls were pretending the witchcraft. This scene in the movie not only gives a perfect representation of the book but almost puts the reader in the place of Mary Warren. Feeling bad for her and wanting people to believe her. Another big similarity between the movie and the book is the character Elizabeth Proctor. In the movie and book, Elizabeth is an upright women, she is very composed and also very emotionally detached. In a way