The Crucible Movie
The Crucible The 1996 film version of “The Crucible”, portrays the infamous Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts during the 1600’s. Author Arthur Miller portrays many events and characthers true to that of what happened in salem in 1692. However, many of the historical events are concentrated around the movies non-fictional relationship that Abigail Williams and John Proctor have. The movie is have many inaccurate elements that are not true to what really happened.The fictional romantic affair along with the overall exaggeration that Miller’s incoperates, was necessary to follow the Relationship of Abigail and Proctor. The most significant ways is through the innacurate historical events that are added to the movie, that ties
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The opening scene of “The Crucible”, shows a group of Puritan girls including Abigail Williams, and slave Tituba in the forest casting a conjuring love spell for the men they love. Tituba having been portrayed black in the film is incorrect, Larry Gragg reports in his article “Under and Evil Hand” that Tituba was insteadthe familys West Indian slave. All the girls bring tokens and toss them into the bubbling pot while, chanting the name of their desired lover, Abigail’s love affair was know by the other girls “Get her John Proctor again, Tituba”(Hytner). Abigail, whispers to Tituba about wanting John Proctors wife dead, following with killing the cicken and rubbing its blood on her face. Historian David Gross accounts to the events not occurring in such an elaborate way, “This was accomplished by suspending an egg white in a clear glass of water, then holding it up to the light of a candle to discern the face that would appear. One of the girls claimed that instead of a face, she saw the shape of a coffin” (Goss,16). The auctual accounts occurred first starting off with Abigail and Her cousin Betty Parrish. The movie attributed the dancing and conjuring in the forest to calling upon the devil and causing the grils to
The opening scene of “The Crucible”, shows a group of Puritan girls including Abigail Williams, and slave Tituba in the forest casting a conjuring love spell for the men they love. Tituba having been portrayed black in the film is incorrect, Larry Gragg reports in his article “Under and Evil Hand” that Tituba was insteadthe familys West Indian slave. All the girls bring tokens and toss them into the bubbling pot while, chanting the name of their desired lover, Abigail’s love affair was know by the other girls “Get her John Proctor again, Tituba”(Hytner). Abigail, whispers to Tituba about wanting John Proctors wife dead, following with killing the cicken and rubbing its blood on her face. Historian David Gross accounts to the events not occurring in such an elaborate way, “This was accomplished by suspending an egg white in a clear glass of water, then holding it up to the light of a candle to discern the face that would appear. One of the girls claimed that instead of a face, she saw the shape of a coffin” (Goss,16). The auctual accounts occurred first starting off with Abigail and Her cousin Betty Parrish. The movie attributed the dancing and conjuring in the forest to calling upon the devil and causing the grils to