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The Crucible

Comprehensive Storyform

The following analysis reveals a comprehensive wait at the Storyform for The Crucible. Different most of the analysis found here—which simply lists the unique individual story appreciations—this in-depth study details the actual encoding for each structural item. This also ways it has been incorporated into the Dramatica Story Good application itself as an easily referenced contextual example.

Story Dynamics

viii of the 12 essential questions

Change: Master Character Resolve
He progresses . . . from shame to renewed balls. For a fourth dimension his humility as an adulterer disposes him to accept the greater humiliation of confessing to witchcraft; since he has already blackened his "expert proper name" by succumbing to and so publicly admitting lechery, he is tempted to save at least his life. Indignation, yet, compels him to relieve self-respect. "How may I live without my name?" . . . (Moss 42)
Stop: Primary Graphic symbol Growth
John is waiting for the madness of the witch trials to stop and his life to render to some semblance of normalcy.
Be-er: Principal Character Approach
John would adopt to wait out a problem—hoping it will resolve itself—rather than to have immediate action. An example of this is when he first hears of the young girls in boondocks making accusations of witchcraft:
Proctor: Oh, it is a black mischief.
Elizabeth: I think you must get to Salem, John. I think and so. You must tell them it is a fraud.
Proctor: Aye, it is, surely.
Elizabeth: Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever—he knows you well. And tell him what she [Abigail] said to you final week in her uncle's house. She said information technology had naught to practise with witchcraft, did she not?
Proctor: (in thought) Aye she did, she did.
Elizabeth: God forbid yous proceed that from the courtroom, John. I think they must be told.
Proctor: (quietly, struggling with his idea) Yep, they must, they must. . . .
Elizabeth: I would get to Salem now, John—permit you lot go tonight.
Proctor: I'll recollect on it.
Elizabeth: Yous cannot keep it, John.
Proctor: I know I cannot go on it. I say I volition think on it! (Miller 53)
Male: Main Character Mental Sex
John focuses on what is the specific cause of a trouble, without because all other possibilities.
Proctor: . . . I know the children's sickness has nil to do with witchcraft.
Hale: Nada to do—?
Proctor: Mr. Parris discovered them sportin' in the forest. They were startled and took sick.
Unhurt: Who told you this?
Proctor: Abigail Williams.
Hale: . . . Abigail Williams told you it had naught to exercise with witchcraft! Why—why did you lot keep this?
Proctor: I never knew until tonight that the world is gone daft with nonsense. (Miller 68)
Action: Story Commuter
The inciting incident in The Crucible is Parris surprising his daughter, niece, and other girls dancing "similar heathen in woods" (Miller 10). He decides to ship for Reverend Unhurt in the hope that he will ostend there are no unnatural causes at work in Salem; after his wife is taken away to jail, Proctor decides to take Mary Warren with him to court to testify the girls are liars, when this action fails, he decides to admit to being a lecher to prove the accusations Abigail has made against his wife are but an endeavour to secure Proctor for herself; when Danforth forces Proctor to sign his name to the confession, Proctor decides to continue his integrity and protect other innocent people by ripping information technology up and going to his decease; and and then forth.
Optionlock: Story Limit
At that place are but a certain number of constraints that can be put on Salem's theocracy in the face of that gild'southward burgeoning independence before the power of the theocracy collapses. This is illustrated in Parris' plea to Hathorne and Danforth to postpone the hangings to allay the outrage of the townspeople over innocent people'southward executions:
Parris: I tell y'all what is said here, sir. Andover [a nearby boondocks] accept thrown out the court, they say, and will have no part of witchcraft. In that location be a faction hither, feeding on that news, and I tell you true, sir, I fear in that location volition be riot here.
Hathorne: Riot! Why at every execution I have seen naught but high satisfaction in the town.
Parris: Judge Hathorne—it were another sort that hanged till now. Rebecca Nurse is no Bridget that lived three twelvemonth with Bishop earlier she married him. John Proctor is not Isaac Ward that drank his family to ruin. (To Danforth): I would to God it were non so, Excellency, but these people accept great weight yet in the town. Permit Rebecca stand upon the gibbet and send upwards some righteous prayer, and I fear she'll wake a vengeance on you lot. (Miller 127)
Failure: Story Upshot
There are no witches in Salem. Those who claim to think that they themselves or others have used witchcraft, lied to the court causing a groovy number of needless deaths.
Good: Story Judgment
John Proctor resolves his personal trouble when he chooses to die rather than to blacken his own proper noun and others of the community:
Parris: Go to him, Goody Proctor! At that place is all the same time! Become to him! Proctor! Proctor!
Hale: Woman, plead with him! Adult female! It is pride, information technology is vanity. Exist his helper!—What profit him to drain? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away!
Elizabeth: He have his goodness now. God forbid I accept it from him! (Miller 144-5)

Overall Story Throughline

""The Witchhunt""

Heed: Overall Story Throughline
In this Puritanical time, there is a definite fixed attitude of the ruling theocracy:
Danforth: . . . Simply you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this courtroom or he must be counted against information technology, at that place be no road in between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise fourth dimension—we love no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. At present, past God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it. I promise you will be ane of those. (Miller 94) Robert Warshow comments:
The Salem "witches" suffered something that may be worse than persecution: they were hanged considering of a metaphysical error. And they chose to die—for all could have saved themselves by "confession"—not for a cause, not for "civil rights," not fifty-fifty to defeat the fault that hanged them, but for their own credit on earth and in heaven: they would not say they were witches when they were not. They lived in a universe where each man was saved or damned past himself, and what happened to them was personal. . . . One need not believe in witches, or fifty-fifty in God, to understand the events in Salem, but it is mere provinciality to ignore the fact that both those ideas had a reality for the people of Salem that they do not have for u.s.. (113)
Memory: Overall Story Concern
John's inability to recall all of the 10 Commandments puts dubiety into Reverend Unhurt's mind every bit to his Christian nature; Elizabeth cannot forget her married man's adultery; upon hearing John Proctor'south confession of infidelity with Abigail—and her subsequent deprival that information technology had always happened, Danforth demands Elizabeth Proctor to tell the courtroom why she had dismissed the girl "Yous will look in my eyes simply and not at your husband. The answer is in your memory and y'all need no help to give information technology to me" (Miller 112).
Suspicion: Overall Story Consequence
Suspicion founded on envy and ignorance is a thematic issue that affects all of the characters in The Crucible:
"Former scores could be settled on a plane of heavenly combat betwixt Match and the Lord; suspicions and the envy of the miserable toward the happy could and did flare-up out in the general revenge" (Miller 8).
Elizabeth: Mr. Unhurt. I practise think you are suspecting me somewhat? Are y'all non? (Miller 67)
Evidence: Overall Story Counterpoint
Prove manufactured from hysteria and revenge is thematically explored in the objective story:
Mrs. Putnam: How loftier did she fly, How high?
Parris: No, no, she never flew—
Mrs. Putnam: Why certain she did. Mr. Collins saw her goin' over Ingersoll'southward barn, and come down light equally bird, he says! (Miller 13);
Hale: Goody Proctor, I practice not judge you. My duty is to add together what I may to the godly wisdom of the court. (Miller 67-68)
Abigail doubles over in pain every bit she accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft—the evidence being the "poppet" found in Elizabeth's home with a needle stuck through its abdomen. The poppet was put at that place past Elizabeth's servant, Mary Warren, who at the time was under the spell of Abigail:
Cheever: . . .stuck two inches in the flesh of her [Abigail] abdomen, he [Parris] draw a needle out. And demandin' of her how she come to be and so stabbed, she testify it were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in.
Proctor: Why, she washed it herself! (To Unhurt): I hope you're not takin' this for proof, Mister! (Hale, struck past the proof, is silent.)
Cheever: Tis hard proof. (To Hale): I find hither a poppet Goody Proctor keeps. . . . And in the belly of the poppet a needle'south stuck. I tell yous truthful, Proctor, I never warranted to see such proof of Hell . . . (Miller 74-75); Overall Story Thematic Conflict
Suspicion vs.Evidence
Miller demonstrates how frenzied hysteria can develop from unfounded suspicion and faulty evidence:
Hale: . . . I have myself examined Tituba, Sarah Skillful, and numerous others that have confessed to dealing with the Devil. They have confessed it.
Proctor: And why not, if they must hang for denyin' information technology? In that location are them that will swear to anything before they'll hang; have you thought of that?
Hale: I have. I—I accept indeed. (It is his own suspicion, but he resists information technology.) (Miller 68-69); The court suggests the fact that John Proctor plows on the Lord's twenty-four hour period is evidence he is in league with the devil:
Proctor: I-I take once or twice plowed on Sunday. . . .
Hale: . . . Your Honor, I cannot recall y'all may gauge the human being on such evidence.
Danforth: I guess nothing. . . . I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people high-strung before my optics past spirits; I take seen them stuck by pins and slashed past daggers. I have until this moment not the slightest reason to doubtable that the children may be deceiving me. Do you understand my significant? (Miller 91)
Inertia: Overall Story Problem
The tendency to maintain the status quo creates problems in the objective story:
Proctor: . . . Learn charity woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I accept not moved from there to at that place without I think to delight you lot, and still an everlasting funeral marches around your heart. (Miller 54); Despite advice to the contrary, Danforth continues with the witch trials:
Parris: Excellency, I would postpone these hangin'south for a time.
Danforth: There will be no postponement. . . . Now hear me and beguile yourselves no more than. I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. . . . Postponement now speaks a floundering on my role; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now. . . . If retaliation is your fear, know this—I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise confronting the law, and an body of water of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes. (Miller 129)
Change: Overall Story Solution
Although the objective story ends in failure, Elizabeth'southward modify of middle toward her husband's transgression is indicative of the kind of alter that could have solved the objective story problem. Elizabeth is able to alter her trend to go along to blame John for his failings:
Elizabeth: (It is difficult to say, and she is on the verge of tears.) . . . exist sure of this, for I know information technology now: Whatever you will do, it is a good man does it. (He turns his doubting, searching gaze upon her.) I have read my heart this three month, John. I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold married woman to prompt lechery. (Miller 136-7)
Society: Overall Story Symptom
Attention is focused on the certain recognizable patterns that signal evil is afoot: "With the uncovering of the practices of "witchcraft" (and these are unmistakable: naked dancing, frogs, drinking blood, and conjuring of spirits) . . ." (Curtis 264).
Chaos: Overall Story Response
To counter what is considered as a problem of organized witchcraft in Salem, government and religious leaders accept it upon themselves to eradicate the evil—without looking carefully to see if it actually exists—and since it does not, their actions of ordering many to imprisonment or expiry results in chaos:
Hale: Excellency, at that place are orphans wandering from house to business firm; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no homo knows when the harlot's cry will end his life—and you wonder yet if rebellion's spoke? Better you should curiosity how they exercise not burn your province! (Miller 130)
Falsehood: Overall Story Catalyst
The fabrication of lies is what accelerates the objective story forward. The girls "crying out" of who in Salem is a witch begins the witch hunt: "Her [Abigail'south] action induces frenzy in the other girls and accelerates the chain reaction of accusation and confession" (Moss xl); The story too moves forward as the court disbelieves any of John Proctor'south explanations of how Abigail effected the imprisonment of his married woman:
Another venerable plot convention, the fatal exposure of a lie, appears twice: once, when the court disproves Mary Warren's claim to be able to "pretend" fainting; again, when Governor Danforth discredits the veracity of John Proctor . . . . In the 2d instance . . . a woman inadvertently betrays her husband . . . Proctor is discredited, ironically, because the lie is believed (Elizabeth affirms his marital fidelity), while the truth (that Abigail, the adulteress, wishes to supplant Elizabeth) is disbelieved. (Moss 40)
Fate: Overall Story Inhibitor
It is inevitable that Abigail will accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft, inhibiting any progress the townspeople of Salem might make in coming to their senses:
Elizabeth: She wants me expressionless. I knew all week it would come up to this!
Proctor: They dismissed it. You heard her [Mary Warren] say—
Elizabeth: And what of tomorrow? She will cry me out until they take me! (Miller 60-61)
Conscious: Overall Story Benchmark
The more Unhurt considers that the Proctors and their friends are telling the truth, and that Abigail, in fact, is a liar, the more he comes to the realization the witch hunt is absurd; the more Danforth considers his authority and righteousness called into question, the more determined he is that he is doing the right thing; the more Elizabeth examines her ain nature, the more she is able to forgive her married man; and then forth.

Primary Grapheme Throughline

John Proctor — Farmer

Psychology: Principal Character Throughline
An individual amidst a rigid, tightly controlled theocratic society, John Proctor refuses to change his mode of thinking to accommodate others. It is in one case he fails the adult female he loves that he begins his exploration of pride, human fallibility, and forgiveness. At story's end, he understands what it means to extend yourself to the community, yet at the same fourth dimension remain truthful to one's self.
Conceptualizing: Primary Graphic symbol Business concern
The struggle inside John Proctor to achieve an honorable conception of himself and to fit his "raw deeds" into a pattern established by that conception comprises the single most of import element in the play. (Calandra and Roberts 31)
State of Being: Main Character Outcome
John begins to understand the true nature of his existence when he cries to Mary Warren they must both tell the truth about Abigail, for he will not let his wife die for him:
Proctor: We will slide together in our pit; you will tell the court what y'all know.
Mary Warren: I cannot, they'll turn on me—
Proctor: My wife will never die for me! . . . Make your peace with it! At present Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretense is ripped away—make your peace! Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God's icy current of air, will blow! (Miller 80-81)
Sense of Cocky: Main Character Counterpoint
As a thematic counterpoint to his true cocky, John Proctor questions his cocky image:
Proctor: God in Sky, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor? (He moves as an animate being, and a fury is riding in him, a tantalized search.) . . . I am no saint. (Miller 138); Primary Character Thematic Disharmonize
State of Being vs.Sense of Self
The thematic conflict of John's perception of himself and his essential nature is explored throughout the story. Prepare against a societal groundwork of uncompromising mores, John Proctor perceives himself to be a "no skilful man" (Miller 136). Once he is forced to choose between death or saving his ain life—which would implicate innocent people—he accepts and forgives his failings, rising above them to relieve his friends at the cost of his life:
With exalted victory-in-defeat rhetoric he proclaims his rediscovery of what he thought had been lost—a "sense of personal inviolability. . . . That's what Proctor means nigh the end of the play when he talks of his 'name.' He is actually speaking virtually his identity, which he cannot surrender." (Moss 42)
Inertia: Primary Character Trouble
Although John is certain that all the accusations that Abigail and her friends have made are false, he maintains his silence because "to reveal his cognition will require that he admit that he is a lecher" (Calandra and Roberts 13).
Modify: Main Character Solution
To resolve his personal bulldoze, John must cover the fact that he cannot stand alone; he must take responsibleness every bit a member of the customs. He is able to change from a man who "wants only to be left lone with his wife and his farm" (Warshow 114) to a human willing to die to protect his name as well as other innocent members of the community:
Hale: Man, you will hang! You cannot!
Proctor: (his eyes total of tears) I can. And at that place'southward your beginning marvel, that I tin can. You accept made your magic now, for at present I practice retrieve I run across some shred of goodness in John Proctor. (Miller 144)
Knowledge: Principal Graphic symbol Symptom
John'south attending is focused on what his married woman holds to be truthful nigh him:
Proctor: When will you know me, woman? Were I stone I would have cracked for shame this seventh calendar month. . . . I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it gratis!
Elizabeth: You'll tear it free—when you come to know that I will be your but married woman, or no married woman at all! She has an pointer in you yet, John Proctor, and you know information technology well! (Miller 62)
Thought: Main Character Response
At his married woman's prodding, John contemplates how to let the court know that Abigail is a liar:
Proctor: I am only wondering how I may evidence what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is non easy to prove she'south fraud, and the town gone and then silly. She told it to me in a room lone—I accept no proof for it. (Miller 53); Hale entreats Proctor to think of the reason why all the madness has come about:
Unhurt: . . . Man, we must await to cause proportionate. Were at that place murder done, perhaps, and never brought to lite? Abomination? Some underground blasphemy that stinks to Heaven? Think on cause, human, and permit you help me to discover information technology. (Miller 79)
Sense of Self: Main Character Unique Ability
John does not apply his unique ability of self prototype to accomplish the goal. Although his perception of himself is that of a fraud, and belief in that prototype could hogtie him to requite the court the kind of recollections they wish to hear to relieve his own life, information technology is ultimately his true essential nature that volition non allow it.
Instinct: Chief Character Critical Flaw
It is John'south innate impulses that gets him into trouble, as exemplified by his falling to the temptation of Abigail.
Conceiving: Chief Character Benchmark
The more John takes seriously that the notion "witchcraft" tin can make a severe impact on the townspeople of Salem, and that he and his family can be caught upwards in mass hysteria, the more than he examines his own nature:
I accept wondered if at that place be witches in the world—although I cannot believe they come among us now. (Miller 69)

Influence Grapheme Throughline

Abigail Williams — Harlot

Physics: Influence Grapheme Throughline
Abigail endeavors to destroy the Proctor union so that she may have John Proctor for herself, first by using her sexuality, declining that—witchcraft:
Betty: You drank claret, Abby. . . . You lot drank a charm to impale John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor! (Miller xix)
Understanding: Influence Character Business
Abigail appreciates and uses her power over men who are prey to weakness, whether it exist sexual weakness or weakness caused past pride. Information technology is only Elizabeth Proctor and Mary Warren, who fully understand Abigail and the damage she is capable of causing.
Instinct: Influence Grapheme Issue
Abigail uses her instincts for survival and to get what she wants. She follows her innate impulses with little care for consequences. She also has the power to arouse others' instincts, for example, John Proctor's sexual instincts.
Conditioning: Influence Character Counterpoint
To avoid certain trouble, Abigail uses threats to condition her girlfriends to respond exactly every bit she does to convince government they have seen spirits:
Abigail: At present look you. All of you. Nosotros danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's expressionless sisters. And that is all. And marker this. Allow either of you breathe a give-and-take, or the edge of a discussion, well-nigh the other things, and I volition come to you in the black of some terrible nighttime and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it . . .(Miller xx); Influence Character Thematic Conflict
Instinct vs.Workout
Abigail uses the thematic disharmonize betwixt intrinsic unconditioned responses and responses based on experience to her utmost reward. At her about canny and diabolical, she cries out confronting those she wishes to suffer as if her cries are entirely involuntary. She does this knowing her girlfriends will follow suit, and that the authorities of the court are now conditioned to accept her accusations:
Danforth: . . . Is information technology possible, child, that the spirits you accept seen are illusion just . . .
Abigail: Why, this—this—is a base question, sir. . . .I take been hurt, Mr. Danforth; I have seen my claret runnin' out! I have been near to murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil's people—and this is my reward? To exist mistrusted, denied, questioned like a—
Danforth: (weakening) Child, I do not mistrust y'all—
Abigail: Let you lot beware, Mr. Danforth. Think yous and then mighty that the power of Hell may not plough your wits? Beware of information technology! There is—(Suddenly, from an accusatory attitude, her face turns, looking into the air above—it is truly frightened.) . . . A wind, a common cold wind, has come up. . .
Mercy Lewis: Your Award, I freeze. . .
Susanna Walcott: I freeze, I freeze!
Abigail (shivering visibly) It is a current of air, a air current! (Miller 108-ix)
Miller further explains how Abigail is able to make an impact on Salem with her cries of witchcraft:
It was equally though the court had grown tired of thinking and had invited in the instincts: spectral evidence . . . [meaning] that if I swore that you had sent out your "familiar spirit" to choke, tickle, or poison me or my cattle, or to control my thoughts and actions, I could become yous hanged unless you confessed to having had contact with the Devil. (Miller 162-iii)
Equity: Influence Graphic symbol Problem
Abigail Williams is driven to destroy the stability of the Proctor'southward matrimony.
Inequity: Influence Character Solution
Abigail unjustly accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft so that she will hang and Abigail can accept her identify as Goody Proctor.
Order: Influence Character Symptom
Abigail's focused, organized campaign to make John her own creates problems for the human being:
And God gave me strength to call them liars, and God made men to listen to me, and by God I will scrub the world clean for the love of him! Oh, John, I will make you such a wife when the world is white again! . . . (He rises, backs abroad amazed.) Why are yous common cold? (Miller 150)
Chaos: Influence Grapheme Response
The havoc Abigail wreaks creates chaos in John Proctor's life.
Workout: Influence Character Unique Power
Information technology is the conditioning of a court functioning in a fourth dimension of theocracy to believe a young girl's accusations of witchcraft, over the common sense John Proctor tries to submit to the government. This workout undermines Proctor's efforts to free his wife, and later, himself.
State of Being: Influence Graphic symbol Disquisitional Flaw
Abigail'south truthful evil nature undermines her efforts to make John autumn in love with her.
Learning: Influence Character Criterion
The more Abigail learns how to use her acting abilities to affright the townspeople, the more she appreciates the power she has.

Human relationship Story Throughline

""Yard Shalt Not Commit Adultery""

Universe: Human relationship Story Throughline
The set up of circumstances explored by John and Abigail is the extramarital affair that occurs between the vibrant, sensual, and amoral Abigail with the passionate, married John Proctor, a human being who has been sexually rebuffed past his wife for many months. One time the thing is discovered, Abigail becomes a woman scorned and is determined to get her human while eliminating his married woman completely from his life. She implements this plan by accusing John's wife of witchcraft, which effectively places Elizabeth in jail, much to John'due south fury. The situation between John and Abigail evolves from one of lust to bitterness and revenge.
By: Relationship Story Business organization
John and Abigail come up into conflict over their past affair:
Abigail: I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near. . . . I saw your confront when she put me out, and yous loved me and so and yous do at present! (Miller 22)
And later—
Proctor: Abby, I may retrieve softly of yous from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for y'all over again. Wipe information technology out of listen. We never touched, Abby.
Abigail: Aye, but we did.
Proctor: Aye, but we did not. (Miller 23)
Interdiction: Human relationship Story Issue
John approaches Abigail, in an attempt to interfere with her part in his wife's trial:
Proctor: I come to tell you, Abby, what I volition do tomorrow in the courtroom. I would not take you by surprise, just give you lot all good time to think on what to do to relieve yourself.
Abigail: Salve myself!
Proctor: If you practise not gratuitous my wife tomorrow, I am set and bound to ruin you, Abby. (Miller 151)
Prediction: Relationship Story Counterpoint
Abigail envisions a blissful future for herself and John, in anticipation of Elizabeth's death: "You lot will be amazed to come across me every day, a low-cal of heaven in your house, a—(He backs abroad amazed)" (Miller 150).; Human relationship Story Thematic Conflict
Interdiction vs.Prediction
The thematic conflict between interdiction and prediction in the subjective story can be seen in terms of the disharmonize between Abigail and John. Abigail anticipates that once Elizabeth is permanently removed, she volition step in as the side by side Goody Proctor. John is adamant to halt Abigail's efforts to take his married woman's identify.
Inertia: Relationship Story Trouble
Inertia every bit the source of problems between John and Abigail tin be seen in 2 ways. That John continues on with his spousal relationship after his wife'due south discovery of his and Abigail's thing is a trouble for Abigail, who has had every expectation he would get out Elizabeth for her:
Proctor: Abby, I never give you lot hope to wait for me.
Abigail: (now offset to acrimony—she can't believe it) I accept something better than hope, I call back! (Miller 22)
That Abigail continues on with her diabolical campaign to reunite with John creates issues for him, peculiarly when the court government however believe her, even after he has given written testimony of her deception, and has admitted to his lechery:
Proctor: . . . God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance, and yous must see it; I set myself entirely in your easily. I know you lot must see it now.
Danforth: Y'all deny every scrap and tittle of this?
Abigail: If I must answer that, I volition leave and I volition not come back again! (Miller 111)
Alter: Human relationship Story Solution
If John could alter his style of thinking in regard to his marital status, or if Abigail could quit her endeavor to endear John to her, they could solve the problem between the two.
Actuality: Relationship Story Symptom
John lets Abigail know that he sees right through her and will non represent it:
Proctor: If y'all don't free my wife tomorrow, I am set and bound to ruin you lot, Abby. . . . I have rocky proof in documents that you knew that poppet were none of my wife's, and that you lot yourself bade Mary Warren stab that needle into it.
Abigail: I bade Mary Warren—?
Proctor: Y'all know what you lot do, you are non so mad! . . . I volition prove you for the fraud you are! (Miller 151)
Perception: Relationship Story Response
Though John tries to make Abigail understand he knows what she is up to and that he will non stand for it, she chooses to go along with her particular reading of his deportment:
Proctor: . . . You will tell the court you are blind to spirits; you cannot see them any more, and you will never cry witchery once again, or I will make you famous for the whore y'all are!
Abigail: . . . I know yous, John—you are this moment singing secret hallelujahs that your wife will hang!
John: You lot mad, yous murderous bitch!
Abigail: Oh, how hard information technology is when pretense falls! But it falls, information technology falls! Yous have done your duty by her. I hope it is your last hypocrisy. (Miller 152)
Destiny: Relationship Story Catalyst
One time Abigail sets her sights on John Proctor, believing him to be her destined husband, she engages in witchcraft to win him by her side. When she is found out, her uncle is alarmed enough to contact the nearest "skilful" in the field. Abigail next accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft, arousing John's fury. He counters by asking her to stop the nonsense—further infuriating this woman scorned—which precipitates the certain tragedy for John and his married woman.
Truth: Relationship Story Inhibitor
Truth slows down the relationship betwixt John and Abigail. Once Elizabeth learns the truth of John and Abigail'south relationship, she puts a stop to it. Abigail's forsaking the truth as a way to win back John farther alienates her from him.
Present: Relationship Story Benchmark
As the current situation between John and Abigail moves from dallying backside the barn to a full-blown courtroom drama, it is clear that any close relationship between the 2 is dissipating at a fast rate.

Additional Story Points

Key Structural Appreciations

Retention: Overall Story Goal
The courtroom demands the townspeople of Salem to come forward with their recollections of who in the town has acted in a manner that may be interpreted as that of being a witch, whether they are memories of their own actions or those of their neighbors.
Past: Overall Story Outcome
Equally a event of the failure to attain the goal, many of the townspeople lie about who they think has exhibited witch-like behavior, resulting in the same kind of persecution they have suffered in the by in England:
Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken . . . Land-lust which had been expressed before past abiding bickering over boundaries and deeds, could now be elevated to the loonshit of morality; one could cry witch against one's neighbor and feel perfectly justified in the deal. (Miller 7-8)
Understanding: Overall Story Cost
An example of understanding equally a cost incurred on the way to achieving the goal is when Hale comprehends his part in the madness:
Unhurt: . . . I would salvage your husband's life, for if he is taken I count myself his murderer. Do yous understand me?
Elizabeth: What do you lot want of me?
Unhurt: Let you lot not error your duty as I mistook my own. I came to this viIlage similar a benedict to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright conviction, information technology died; and where I turned the centre of my bully faith, blood flowed up. Beware, Goody Proctor—carve to no organized religion when faith brings blood. It is mistaken law that leads yous to sacrifice. . . I beg you lot, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Permit him requite his lie. ( Miller 131-132)
Conceptualizing: Overall Story Dividend
Conceptualizing as a dividend is illustrated equally follows: Once Elizabeth is able to envision her office in her married man'southward infidelity, she can truly forgive him, and ask for his forgiveness also:
Elizabeth: I have read my centre this 3 month, John. I have sins of my ain to count. It needs a common cold wife to prompt lechery. . . . Forgive me, forgive me John. (Miller 137); One time Giles Corey envisions what will happen to his family and belongings if he "confesses" to beingness a sorcerer, "he stand mute, and died Christian under the law" (Miller 135).
Conscious: Overall Story Requirements
As a requirement that must be met prior to achieving the goal, earlier one tin merits to remember themselves or a neighbor consorting with the Devil, they must consider the possibility of the existence of evil in Salem. Elizabeth Proctor is ane who does not consider the existence of witches, therefore she is unable to relay whatever recollection, fake or true, of anyone (including herself) guilty of witchcraft:
Elizabeth: I cannot recall the Devil may own a woman's soul, Mr. Hale, when she keeps an upright style, as I have. I am a skilful woman, I know it; and if you believe I may exercise merely skilful piece of work in the world, and notwithstanding be secretly bound to Satan, so I must tell you, sir, I do not believe it.
Hale: But, woman, y'all practise believe there are witches in—
Elizabeth: If you recollect I am one, then I say there are none. (Miller 70)
Present: Overall Story Prerequisites
For ane to consider that there are evil forces at piece of work in Salem, the current situation must have been:
. . . when the repressions of guild were heavier than seemed warranted past the dangers confronting which the lodge was organized. The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the residual began to turn toward greater private liberty. . . . The witch-hunt was non, however, mere repression. It was as well, and every bit importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, nether the encompass of accusations against victims. (Miller vii)
Learning: Overall Story Preconditions
A precondition imposed on meeting the requirement of "the witting" would be the unessential brake of learning what exactly constitutes witchcraft. Parris takes steps to do this by inviting Reverend Hale to Salem:
Putnam: They say you lot've sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly?
Parris: A precaution only. He has much experience in all demonic arts. (Miller 13-14)
Conceiving: Overall Story Forewarnings
Certain ideas that are entertained, such as the being of witchcraft, describe the imminent approach of the story's consequence of repeating the by, peculiarly persecution for celebrating one's individuality that many people of Salem (or their ancestors) suffered in Europe.

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Overall Story

Conscious: Overall Story Signpost i
Thomas Putnam considers "himself equally the intellectual superior of most of the people around him" (Miller fourteen); Parris is sensible to the fact that virtually of his parishioners despise him and that his position as Salem'south minister is in jeopardy; the townspeople consider the possibility of witchcraft in their midst; and and then forth.; Overall Story Journey 1 from Conscious to Retentivity
Hysteria ensues as the townspeople of Salem consider there may be witchcraft in their midst, and begin to remember friends and neighbors' past deportment that accept been suspicious:
Proctor: I'll tell y'all what's walking Salem at present—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what nosotros always were in Salem, but now the piddling crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the constabulary! (Miller 77)
Retention: Overall Story Signpost ii
The recollection of John and Abigail's matter is a bitter memory for Elizabeth Proctor:
Proctor: . . . I have forgot Abigail, and—
Elizabeth: And I.
Proctor: Spare me! You forgot nothin' and forgive nothin'. (Miller 54); Mary Warren justifies to Elizabeth why she has cried out against Sarah Good:
Mary Warren: . . . she [Goody Expert] sit there, denying and denying, and I experience a misty coldness climbin' up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to pitter-patter . . . I hear a voice, a screamin' vocalization, and it were my voice—and all at once I remembered everything she done to me! . . . You must recollect, Goody Proctor. Concluding month . . . she walked away, and I thought my guts would burst for two days after. Do you recall it? (Miller 57-58); Overall Story Journey 2 from Memory to Subconscious
Considering the accusers attribute their recollections of certain women in Salem as that of evil, the women are summarily jailed.
Subconscious: Overall Story Signpost 3
The husbands of Goody Corey, Goody Nurse, and Goody Proctor are driven to prove to the court their wives' innocence of practicing witchcraft:
Francis Nurse: Nosotros are desperate sir; we come up here three days at present and cannot be heard. (Miller 86)
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Danforth: . . . I understand well, a married man's tenderness may drive him to extravagance in defence force of a wife. (Miller 89); Overall Story Journey iii from Subconscious to Preconscious
The regime in Salem are driven to brand certain God and justice are served; they are, in fact, driven to the point of irrationality. This stock-still land of mind conflicts with the many accused innocent people who want to keep their lives. The objective story progresses from exploring the hidden to exploring the raw, unconditioned responses that go deeper than basic drives and desires, especially when faced with ones' mortality.
Preconscious: Overall Story Signpost 4
The witchcraft trials have taken their price on Parris; when bade good morning past Hathorne "he wept and went his way" (Miller 124); When Elizabeth is brought to John in the jail afterwards three months of no contact, ". . . the emotion flowing between them prevents anyone from speaking for an instant" (Miller 133), and equally John touches his wife "a foreign soft sound, one-half laughter, half amazement, comes from his pharynx" (Miller 134).

Main Grapheme

Condign: Master Character Signpost 1
By refusing to attend church building services and other community activities, John has become an outsider:
Putnam: I never heard you worried and so on this society, Mr. Proctor. I practise not think I saw you lot at Sabbath meeting since snow flew. (Miller 28); Main Character Journeying 1 from Becoming to Conceiving
John Proctor, disgusted at the materialistic means of the town's minister and those similar him (Thomas Putnam), has practically isolated himself and his family from the community, condign more of a loner than a citizen. His disdain for what he thinks is the townspeople's foolishness over witchcraft turns to horror as he must devise a mode to continue his wife from being caught upwardly in the madness:
Hale: . . . I know not if you are aware, but your wife'south name is—mentioned in the court.
Proctor: . . . We are entirely amazed. (Miller 63)
Conceiving: Master Graphic symbol Signpost 2
John has trouble conceiving of the madness that has taken over the town: "Oh information technology is a black mischief. . . . the boondocks gone so silly." (Miller 53); Main Character Journeying 2 from Conceiving to Conceptualizing
Although he cannot imagine that any sane person can believe his married woman is a witch, he must act fast to devise and implement a plan that will release his wife from jail. One programme is to coerce Mary Warren to tell the truth near how Elizabeth came to be accused in the get-go place:
Mary Warren: Mr. Proctor, very likely they'll let her come dwelling once they're given proper prove.
Proctor: You lot're coming to the courtroom with me, Mary. You will tell it in courtroom. (Miller 79-fourscore)
Conceptualizing: Chief Character Signpost three
John envisions i way to salvage his wife from hanging is to compel Mary Warren to sign a document declaring the girls are frauds.; Main Graphic symbol Journey 3 from Conceptualizing to Being
The ideas John has visualized to gratuitous his married woman backfire, when Elizabeth lies to the court about his adultery. Shortly thereafter, he is accused of being a witch every bit well.
Existence: Main Graphic symbol Signpost 4
John Proctor pretends to be a witch and so that he may "confess" and so go back to his normal life. Once he explores the true consequences of what interim like a witch volition bring, he denounces the role.

Influence Character

Learning: Influence Grapheme Signpost 1
From Abigail, Reverends' Parris and Unhurt learn the devil is afoot in Salem.; influence Grapheme Journeying one from Learning to Understanding
Abigail gathers the data necessary to style a position of ability for herself. She uses this agreement to detail effect when she cries out against the wife of the homo she loves.
Agreement: Influence Grapheme Signpost 2
Elizabeth easily comprehends why Abigail is accusing her of being a witch:
Elizabeth: John—grant me this. You lot have a faulty agreement of young girls. In that location is a promise made in any bed—
Proctor: What hope!
Elizabeth: Spoke or silent, a promise is surely fabricated. And she may dote on it now—I am sure she does—and thinks to impale me then to have my identify. (Miller 61); Influence Character Journeying 2 from Agreement to Doing
Abigail's appreciation of the ability she wields leads her to execute a plan that will finer destroy the wife of the man she loves.
Doing: Influence Grapheme Signpost 3
Abigail make utilize of her status in town:
Proctor: . . . I hear just that you go to the tavern every night, and play shovelboard with the Deputy Governor, and they give yous cider. (Miller 149); To deflect Mary Warren's testimony to Danforth that the claim the girls had seen spirits was only a "sport" (Miller 107), Abigail puts on a performance of ane that is possessed.; Influence Character Journey 3 from Doing to Obtaining
Every bit soon as Abigail has washed all the damage she could possibly do in Salem, she steals her uncle's money and leaves town.
Obtaining: Influence Character Signpost 4
Abigail vanishes from Salem taking her uncle's money with her:
Hathorne: She take robbed you?
Parris: Thirty-one pound is gone. I am penniless. (Miller 126)

Relationship Story

Present: Human relationship Story Signpost i
The affair between John and Abigail is halted by Elizabeth, and Abigail'south services are no longer required in the Proctor household. As of this moment, Abigail is determined to once again win John's affection; he is just every bit adamant never again to succumb to her charms: "I volition cut off my paw before I'll always attain for you again" (Miller 23).; Relationship Story Journey one from Present to Past Abigail believes that every bit of this moment John Proctor is love with her, because of their past relationship: "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin information technology is, you dear me yet!" (Miller 24)
Past: Relationship Story Signpost two
Elizabeth cannot let go of the matter that has happened betwixt John and Abigail, certain that:
Elizabeth: . . . At that place is a promise fabricated in any bed—
Proctor: What promise!
Elizabeth: Spoke or silent, a promise is surely made. (Miller 61); Relationship Story Journey 2 from Past to Progress
Any remaining feelings of tenderness John Proctor may accept for Abigail from their shared by are turned to hate when he realizes she has set into motion the accusations of witchcraft made against his wife. Abigail believes her actions will motility their relationship forwards.
Progress: Relationship Story Signpost 3
The mode things are going, John is adamant to bear witness Abigail a fraud in club to save his wife, even if it means confessing himself as a lecher:
Proctor: I will show you for the fraud you are!
Abigail: And if they inquire you why Abigail would ever do and then murderous a human action, what will you tell them?
Proctor: I will tell them why.
Abigail: What will you lot tell? You lot will confess to fornication? In the court?
Proctor: If yous will have information technology so, so I volition tell information technology! (Miller 152); Human relationship Story Journey 3 from Progress to Future
As Abigail advances toward evil and John toward reclaiming his wife's dear and forgiveness, any future they could have together is effectively void.
Future: Human relationship Story Signpost 4
With Abigail's disappearance and John'due south imminent demise, in that location is no future for the two of them.

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