People often get stumped on whether or not they truly love their significant other. They often wonder if they’re with the right person. Sometimes it’ll take some kind of a push to actually feel love between you and your significant other. In the play, different people have different opinions about Elizabeth and John’s love life. I believe that they genuinely did love each other. Even though Elizabeth mentioned that there wasn’t true happiness in the household, the audience could tell that they legitimately did care about each other. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, he utilizes pathos and logos to show how Elizabeth and John’s relationship progress throughout the play.
After Elizabeth gets arrested, she claims that she is pregnant and uses that as a way to get out of getting executed, this is one way that Miller used logos and pathos in his play. Elizabeth and John have finally come face-to-face after they have both been arrested: “He reaches out his hand as though toward an embodiment not quite real, and as he touches her, a strange soft sound, half laughter, half amazement, comes from his throat” (Miller 123-124). Clearly, this is how John reacted to Elizabeth’s pregnancy. He also
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John has just ripped up his signature and has given his final speech: “Elizabeth, in a burst of terror, rushes to him and weeps against his hand… He has lifted her, and kisses her now with great passion” (Miller 133). As soon as Elizabeth realizes that John is going to die, she quickly runs over to him and cries. The audience can clearly tell that she has loads of emotion going through her right now. Then, right before John gets taken away, John takes Elizabeth and kisses her with great passion. This is Elizabeth and John’s tremendous moment. This is where the audience finally sees the top moment of their progress. This is the moment where they show that they actually cared about each
Abigail and John’s affair seven months ago is still causing problems between Elizabeth and him. There’s a lot of tension in one of the beginning exchanges between Elizabeth and John. “Elizabeth: ‘Then go and tell her she’s a whore. Whatever promise she may sense- break it, John, break it.’ John:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a short film where cruelty functions as a crucial motivation and a major social factor. In the film there was a lot of cruelty going on and helped shape the theme. There were some cases in the film that cruelty showed characteristics of a victim or one of the characters. Cruelty was apart of puritan aspects and it revealed that John didn’t care what he had to go through to save his soul.
In the first scene of the second act of the Crucible, Elizabeth is with John. John reveals that he was with Abigail and he admitted the betrayal. There are many different ways Arthur Miller enforced his claim. Through emotional appeal, figurative language, and tone, the author has successfully used literary elements to support John’s argument with Elizabeth.
John later says to Elizabeth that " My honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man. Nothing's spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before"(136) and rather confess then die for something he flat out did not do. However, as John confesses, he decides that he can not allow Danforth to make it officially documented. As Danforth asks him why John answers with a cry " because it is my name.
The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it's doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I. Introduction: The play is based on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late 1600's in Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the people's fear of what they felt was the Devil's work and shows how a small group of powerful people wrongly accused and killed many people out of this fear and ignorance.
During the Elizabethan era marriage was like a business contract, if the money is there then so is the signature. Love was never a part of the play and this showed in both Hortensio and Petruchio, who Shakespeare uses to expose this superficial approach to the supposedly romantic notion of marriage.
During the film, The Crucible, the adaptation of the script to the film is portrayed very well. The acting during the movie compares to the text in various ways because a visual is created for the viewer during both. They are similar because most of the scenes are characteristic traits are the same. However, the dissimilarity is shown in the whole movie by the differentiation of Abigail’s character traits. In the play, Abigail is portrayed as the antagonist, as she is in the movie, but throughout the movie, Abigail was given a role that portrays her to be more dramatic than in the play. Another example would be the emotions of Elizabeth Proctor when speaking to her husband at the end of the movie. In the play, Elizabeth shows little to no emotion
John Proctor is Elizabeth Proctor husband. They live together for more than ten years, but their relationship seems to be awkward. Personally, I would rather think they owe each other than they love each other. John feels ashame to Elizabeth because of Abigail and him has an affair. And John become unhappy every time when Elizabeth talk about Abigail. The mistrust between John and Elizabeth seems to be more and more serious. When the chaos occurs, he hesitates to tell out the truth because he worries that his secret with Abigail will be exposed and his reputation will be ruined. Elizabeth and John proctor’s interaction seems to be weird. “He gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it.” This is just not how a old-couple
In The Crucible, it is clear that John Proctor did not feel love for Abigail. Proctor states, after Abigail insists he speak to her out of love, “Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.” With such a weighty statement, Proctor confirms that his affair with Abigail was merely due to his own lust and weakness. However, in The Scarlet Letter, Hester finds herself in love with the object of her affair. Rather than simply using Dimmesdale for physical romance, Hester also develops a strong love for him, “‘Thou shalt forgive me!’ cried Hester, flinging herself on the fallen leaves beside him. ‘Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive!’” (The Scarlet Letter, 175) Clearly, Hester seeks Dimmesdale’s approval desperately, as one does only for those they truly care for. Hester feels a true love, unlike Abigail’s lust, which causes her view to be distorted. Judith Orloff puts it best, saying, “…lust is fueled by idealization and projection--you see what you hope someone will be or need them to be--rather than seeing the real person, flaws and
In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is a Reverend who seems to be having a few issues. His love, Elizabeth, has been at his side since the beginning, but then finds out something so devastating and everything gets turned around. A healthy relationship starts with two people who fall for each other and take care of one another to keep them safe; someone who stays faithful and loyal. John and Elizabeth had this kind of relationship for a while, but when someone else came along with their relationship starts to tear. After years of being together, Proctor had an affair.
Is there any idea worth more than a human life? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor decides that he has nothing left to live for, and therefore becomes a martyr. The question for him or one in his position would be whether or not there exist causes worth dying for and if his position is one such case. There is no principle worth more than a person’s life and therefore principles worth dying for, only principles worth living for.
In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, many characters all expressed different personality’s. For one, Reverend Pariss portrays the Id. The Id mainly consists of impulses that demand satisfaction. “The id contains all of our most basic animal and primitive impulses that demand satisfaction. It’s the Mr. Hyde emerging from the restrained Dr. Jekyll. It’s that little devil that sits on your shoulder, whispering temptations and spurring on you.” (Understanding) Throughout the play, Reverend Pariss demanded decisions to be made based on his opinions and personal convenience. “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba” (Miller 44) By saying this, Reverend Pariss wanted people
She knows that her husband has been cheating on her, but still she blames it on herself. She has tried to protect her husband’s name, because she knows him for what he truly is. Elizabeth lives by the truth, lies to protect her husbands secret. So when the time for her to tell the court about why she dismissed Abigail Williams she tells them “Abigail Williams was not fulfilling her needs anymore”. Elizabeth didn't know that her husband had already confessed for his sin, and asked for forgiveness. John was then taken away to be imprisoned. Later in the story Elizabeth then visited her husband John while he was still imprisoned, she tells John that “She still loves him”. With her saying that truly defines her character in the
Elizabeth Proctor is used in The Crucible to illustrate the powerful strength of what manipulation has over any living mortal. Typically an honest person under their religious faith would believe in telling the truth, but not while having an evil thoughts being whispered in your ear disguised as manipulation. Already knowledgeable of her husband’s previous affair with Abigail Williams, Elizabeth fears of ruining the Proctor name in the town of Salem, Massachusetts due to John’s affair and since John is a high authority figure in the church, it would ruining his name and people would not respect him as a preacher anymore. So in the process of saving the Proctor name, regardless of John admitting the truth by making the court aware of the recent affair he had with Abigail, Elizabeth denies those allegations because she fears that John will be upset to the utmost point, so she sacrifices herself to protect the Proctor name, even though she fears that she hopes that she made the right decision, as shown when she tried to clarify all statements be...
Abigail and Elizabeth act as foils for each other in The Crucible. Abigail is jealous, a liar, and out for revenge whereas Elizabeth is portrayed as loving, truthful, and forgiving. Abigail will stop at nothing to reclaim John’s affections towards her, and Elizabeth, as his wife, is true to herself and her marriage. Abigail is passionate about John, and Elizabeth is more subdued and takes on the role of domestic at home which makes them complete opposites.