Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Crucible
- Fear/hysteria
- What motivates the characters
- First appears when the girls begin to accuse
others
- Fear of the devil
- Proctor fears losing his reputation
- Allows Abigail to gain control of the town
- Elizabeth fears this in Act 2
- Elizabeth also fears this as she cares for him
and it affects her own reputation
- Parris fears the loss of his power
- Leads to audience satisfaction when he
gets robbed
- The girls are loyal to Abigail as a result of fear
- Driven by fear that God will not save them
- Morality
- Proctor dies for his name
- “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have
another in my life!"
- Elizabeth stays by his side throughout
- Danforth keeps his morality to that of the court trying to
remain fair at all times even if he is mislead by the girls
- "I should hang 10 thousand that
dared to rise against the law"
- Hales morals change throughout the
play as he sees Abi as a liar
- Symbolises the corruption that power and greed can cause
- Parris is not moral himself as a representation of McCarthy
- Relationships
- Trust issues within the
Proctors relationship due to
the affair
- Jealousy of the Proctors the
catalyst of the entire conflict
- through Abgails lust for proctor
- The girls are loyal to Abigail
- Injustice
- Links to context of McCarthyism
- Innocent people being accused of what they didn't do
- Directed towards Elizabeth as she is portrayed as a good christian
women yet still arrested
- Audience feels the injustice as they know of
Abigails ulterior motive
- Towards women in genral
- Lower class then men
- All those who stand for their beliefs are killed
- Not signing the confession
- Witchcraft
- Represent the accusations surrounding McCarthyism
- Builds context
- 1692 Salem dwellers feared the Devil was to blame
for their troubles
- Leads to their belief in IRL witches
- Power
- Abigail holds the most power throughout the play
- However he devotion to proctor could be seen as him holding power over her
- All the girls follows Abigail in court when Mary tries to speak out
- However Danforth shows ultimate power in this situation
- Abigail is the most believed throughout
the play due to her power
- Hypocrisy
- The church and Puritans
- Demands honesty yet the whole play is based upon lies and deceit
- Characters claim to be good Christians yet go
against the morals
- Parris and his golden candle sticks
- Going after Proctor to save his own skin
- Crucible
- Melting pot for metal
- Miller see's society as melting
- Blames everything on external factors
- Light
- Act 1
- the morning sun streams and a candle still burns
- Demonstrates revelation or change
- Act 2
- almost dark, a fire in the fire place
- Darkness shows that unwlecoming but fire suggests
love is still there
- Act 3
- sunlight pouring through, 2 high windows in the back wall.
- Shows that justice may be served
- Act 4
- place is in darkness except for the moonlight seeping through the bars
- Moonlight suggests that hope may prevail
- Birds
- Girls referred to as flying
- Suggests witchcraft
- Sits like a great bird
- Shows his pride
- Other animals
- “many cows wandering the high road”
- Shows disordered society as all farmers are in jail
- Nature restoring balance and overcoming man