The Crucible Father Daughter Relationship

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It’s quite suspicious how the two plays Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and The Crucible by Arthur Miller both feature a father-daughter, father-niece, and cousin-niece relationship. In this essay, the relationships between Hero, Beatrice, Leonato and Betty, Abby, and Parris will be thoroughly examined. The differences between Hero, Beatrice, Leonato (from Much Ado About Nothing) and Betty, Abby, and Parris’ (from The Crucible) relationships are striking, and they merit rigorous examination.
To demonstrate one of the different relationships between the two books, let’s start off by discussing the father-daughter relationship featured in both books. Hero and Leonato, Betty and Parris’ father-daughter relationship is diverse compared …show more content…

Hero and Beatrice’s cousin-niece relationship is mismatched to Betty and Abby’s. Hero and Beatrice are not only cousins, but they are best friends as well. “O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!. . .No, truly not, although until last night I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow. . .Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.” (Shakespeare, IV, i). In this scene, Beatrice is defending her wronged cousin, who was accused of cheating on her fiance the night before their wedding. Hero and Beatrice were “bedfellows” or roommates before the night of her wedding. Beatrice later on goes to Benedick and asks him to murder Hero’s then ex fiance. Meanwhile, from what is shown in the book, Abby shows mixed feelings towards Betty; one second she’s kind, the next she’s threatening and yelling at her. “Now, Betty, dear, wake up now. It’s Abigail.” (Miller, 19). “Shut it! Now shut it!” (Miller, 19). The first quote hails from when Betty was unresponsive in the first act. Abby was simply trying to wake her, which brings me to the next quote. Betty awakes and quickly rushes to the window, screaming for her mother. Abby tries to get her to calm down, but Betty yells out that Abby drank blood for John Proctor, which lead to Abby smashing Betty across the face and yelling at

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