Crucible Act 2 Reflection

The characters in the book the Crucible are all very interesting people because pretty much none of them are good christians. When people are not perfect, it makes them more interesting characters because it adds some spice to the story. Nobody wants to sit there and read about boring characters that never do anything wrong because they all would be going around being perfect doing the exact same thing. The bad things they do have to do with god and sinning. They all go to church acting like they are perfect christians and go every single sunday and sit there and worship god and act like they are all perfect(Miller 42). Then, some of the people that sit there all high and mighty in church and act perfect go out and they sin. In the book there is adultry, which is a sin becacuse in the ten commandments you should not have sex without marriage and obviously if he is commiting adultry he is sleeping with someone other than his wife. That is a huge sin in the eyes of god. Also, there is a lot of practicing of the witchcraft in the forests and they are doing some wierd freaky things. This could be looked at in two ways. You could look at it like they were just messing around in the forest and not meaning anything by it. Or you could look at it like they are completing a huge sin and going against god's wishes because witchcraft has to do with the devil(Miller 27). I think it is somewhere in the middle because I do not think they are purposfully wanting to sin and go against god.

We did an activity in class about the colored personality you have. I was a green meaning I was a thinker. The characters in the story the Crucible are all very different, but similair too. I will start with Abigail. I think Abigail is an orange. This means that she is a doer. She did not really think about her actions and how they could affect her, she just went with her gut and hoped Proctor would come back to her. She is the opposite of a green because she did not think this whole situation through before she did what she did(True Colors). I think that Gooody Proctor is her opposite because I thinkt hat he is a green. He is a thinker. He thinks before he does things unlike Abigail who just does them. She has a plan for everything because she thinks it all out before she does it. think that Parris is probably in the gold category. I think this because he has a plan for everything and he just seems to be very organized. When he first found out better was "sick," he sent for a doctor(Miller 59). He thinks very logically and keeps everything in control. He is a leader among the group from what it seems because he took charge and got a doctor and thought logically not just freak out like someone might do if someone they knew was very sick. He was logical not emotional in that sense.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: a Play in Four Acts. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1976. Print.

"True Colors." Web. 11 Oct. 2011.