What Is The Difference Between The Crucible Play And Movie

The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller; he also wrote a screenplay. Arthur Miller was very purposeful when he wrote the Crucible. He encountered some incidents that related to this historical story, and that is where he got his inspiration. The text and the screenplay had some major differences between them, along with some minor differences. Some differences altered the story while others had little to no effect. In Act 1, the screenplay shows John Proctor talking to Abigail Williams outside, while in the text, the scene is in Betty’s room. The difference between the setting in the scene, affects the overall story. In the text Betty is in the room, “unconscious”, so she hears everything. In the text, Betty knows about Abigail and John’s affair, while in the movie Betty hears nothing of it. In the screenplay Abigail talks to Reverend Hale about what happened in the forest. She implies that something jumped into the kettle but she doesn’t say what it was, while in the text she tells him it was a frog. This small change has almost no effect on the overall story,

When the children see what is going on they try to save their mom. While in the text, we don’t see the children at all. This small modification, changes the feeling of the scene. In the screenplay, the scene seems more tragic with the boys trying to save their mother. In Act 4 of the screenplay, Arthur Miller adds an entire new scene. This changes a lot. We see how desperate and pathetic Abigail actually was. Abigail is portrayed as delusional, the fact that she actually thought John still loved her. We also see the whole reason this really started, she just wanted John. If she had just accepted the fact that John didn’t love her anymore this never would’ve happened. She reveals in the added scene that, she never intended for John to be in that situation, she just wanted