Elizabeth Proctor In The Crucible
The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place during the witch-trials in Salem. People are being falsely accused for witchcraft and put to trial; innocent people are being harmed. In the play Elizabeth Proctor is married to a man named John Proctor. The audience finds out in the play John Proctor cheats on his wife with a teenage girl named Abigail Williams before the play takes place. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Elizabeth Proctor develops from a powerless woman, to a protective wife, to supportive wife. In act two Elizabeth Proctor shows the character trait of being powerless women when she is confronted by Mary Warren. Elizabeth says, “I couldn’t stop her.” Proctor responds, “It is a fault, it is a fault, Elizabeth—you’re
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When Elizabeth is called in to testify to her husband, she does not know he has admitted to committing adultery. Elizabeth is put in an uncomfortable position: she could be honest and tell the court the assertion is true and keep her husband’s reputation pure or she could go against her beliefs and lie to the court and say she had no knowledge of the lechery. Judge Danforth questions Elizabeth, “Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? In a crisis of indecision she cannot speak. Answer my question! Is you husband a lecher!” Elizabeth Answers, “Faintly: No, sir” (105). When Elizabeth fibs to the court she is putting her own reputation of being pure and not lying at risk; she does this to protect her husband because she does not want him to be embarrassed or judged by his former actions. Elizabeth is protective because she is willing to ruin her own reputation to save her husband and her entire families good …show more content…
Her personality changes completely throughout the play. She begins the play as a weak wife, cowering towards her servant, then in act three she lies for her husband to protect his name and himself. Finally in the last act she is a completely different woman. She is supportive towards her husbands decision to hang. If she had been confronted with that predicament in the beginning should would have begged her husband to be with her because she felt she needed his approval. Elizabeth Proctor changes substantially in the
When Elizabeth is called in to testify to her husband, she does not know he has admitted to committing adultery. Elizabeth is put in an uncomfortable position: she could be honest and tell the court the assertion is true and keep her husband’s reputation pure or she could go against her beliefs and lie to the court and say she had no knowledge of the lechery. Judge Danforth questions Elizabeth, “Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? In a crisis of indecision she cannot speak. Answer my question! Is you husband a lecher!” Elizabeth Answers, “Faintly: No, sir” (105). When Elizabeth fibs to the court she is putting her own reputation of being pure and not lying at risk; she does this to protect her husband because she does not want him to be embarrassed or judged by his former actions. Elizabeth is protective because she is willing to ruin her own reputation to save her husband and her entire families good …show more content…
Her personality changes completely throughout the play. She begins the play as a weak wife, cowering towards her servant, then in act three she lies for her husband to protect his name and himself. Finally in the last act she is a completely different woman. She is supportive towards her husbands decision to hang. If she had been confronted with that predicament in the beginning should would have begged her husband to be with her because she felt she needed his approval. Elizabeth Proctor changes substantially in the