A drama by Arthur Miller Essay

The Crucible is a drama by Arthur Miller wrote in the 1950s. It tells the tail of a village in America, Salem. This is overpower with mass hysteria cr icraft trials. In the opening scene of the movie house, lay out 1, the director chooses to go straight to one of the main characters, Abigail. She is the center of the meeting of missys and the scene moves straight to timberland where the girls are dancing. There is spooky symphony playing in the background. They start to chant and partake in the work out of witchcraft.Abigail whispers to Tituba (the servant of Rev. capital of France and we then find out later that she wish John watch to fall in love with her. Abigail picks up the yellow(a) and uses it to put a spell on John. The background is dark and with witchcraft, pitch contour and music all builds up tension very well. In the skipper play you do not see the witch craft near at the beginning. Instead Author Miller chooses to go stright to a newborn girl affected b y the witch craft Betty (the Rev. Paris daughter) who appears to be in a comma.This is due the girls getting cauter while practicing there witch craft. We find out that Rev. Paris saw the girl in the forest dancing, this called them all to freak out and run around like decapitated chickens and it scared Betty so much that she was now in a comma. Paris say my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like infidel in the forest Abby denies they were doing witchcraft, she says they where just dancing when her uncle, the Rev. Paris, came along and frightened them Betty fainted.In the play Arthur Millers introduction is calm but the film has a spooky, eerie and dramatic feeling. Abby is very dominant over the otherwise girls and has a lot of control over them. She is the main character and one of the oldest so she has the most control over them. She seems to sense the girls weakness and uses this to her advantage by making them copy her when she wants. Tituba become much powerful w ith every one surrounding her listen to her every excogitate of what happened in the forest which make her feel more important and little like a slave.In Act 2 in the stones throw of the play stat to build up as the sentences become small and I found my self read much quicker which seemed to keep me in suspense building tension. We find out that Abbey has an affair with John reminder and that his wife knows about this some thing you would not expect from a Nobel man like John. All this seemed to make Abbey a stronger character which whitethorn seem odd as Abbey started out as an innocent girl having a bit of fun in the forest.bloody shame Warren enters the observes house suddenly. The sight of here make john Proctor furious. It is very dramatic when he grabs her and shakes her and shouts Ill whip you if you do not dare leave this house again. But the tension drops as Mary Warren goes hang-up in his grip and claims to be sick. Proctors anger is draining and Marys staye is emph asized when she give the limp rag doll to Elizabeth Proctor. The tension rises very dramatically when proctor finds the provoke in the rag doll.