The Crucible Compare Contrast Essay

Marriage is nothing easy. Committing yourself to one person for the rest of your life is something that a lot of people dream of, and yeah it might seem amazing at first, but sometimes things change, like cheating on their partner for various reasons: losing feelings, bored of their spouse, or maybe the person simply made a mistake. Couples try to move passed the incident, but can they really forgive their partner for breaking the life-long promise their partner made on their wedding day? Does staying with their partner make them look pathetic? Or is it a sign of truly loving the person for their mistakes? Hardly any couples can make it get through a situation like this. An example of this would be a well known couple in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible John and Elizabeth Proctor. Throughout the play, Elizabeth is heartbroken by John’s adultery actions. They have this tension between them, and Elizabeth struggles to forgive him; however, when it was time to tell the court about his adultery, she lied, which

In Act 2, where Elizabeth is first introduced, John comes home late and they sit and eat dinner. Within the first couple of lines, Miller successfully demonstrates the tension between John and Elizabeth. While John and Elizabeth are eating, John tells her that he just wants to make her happy; he then stands up and kisses her (Act 2. Lines 31-34). After the unsuccessful attempt to get rid of the tension in the room, he sits down unsatisfied. The awkwardness is the room arises and John realizes that she's more upset than usually and says, “I think you're sad again. Are you?”(54-56). She then refers to earlier when he arrived later than usual and said, “You come so late I thought you'd gone to Salem this afternoon” (57-62). She knows Abigail lives in Salem, so she assumed that he must have seen her. After being torn by his actions, she is entitled to feel some kind of