Weekly Response 5

Rilee Erickson

Mr. Primrose

Period 2

Weekly Response 5



The Crucible



Watching The Crucible, based on the play by Arthur Miller, a person would notice that there are a plethora of things that a director or even another writer would need to pay attention to in order to get the scene for their movie to be accurate.

When I first read the play I envisioned the setting as an old gloomy town much like that of The Scarlet Letter. The community run by the church, in which a small thing such as dancing would cause a dire situation for everybody involved. The director of the movie The Crucible, I think did a very good job in these aspects of the story. However, there were some minor changes that I would have made if I had been planning my own movie of The Crucible.

The actors placed in to play the characters in the crucible were mostly good and played their part well. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were exactly how i would envision two women condemned of witchcraft to be. The others character however, like Goody Proctor I saw as a more powerful character that was not afraid to lash out and show what was wrong about the accusations. Nevertheless, the setting and the actors did make a good representation of the play, that any author would be proud of. It captured every moment that was climactic and emphasized on the evilness of Abigail Williams.

Before watching the movie it was somewhat hard to follow what was going on between the characters when they would talk back and forth and not use the kind of English slang that we use today. They were proper so it was a given to use that proper language in the play. To watch what was going on and see for yourself what happened in the play through the movie tied together all the things that a reader had questioned. Together the play and the movie make the understanding of The Crucible all that much easier.