The Crucible

For my film analysis, I decided on the movie The Crucible. The movie takes place during the Salem witch trails and shows a mostly accurate representation of what happened during this times. The movie uses some of the same names of the actually people from history in the movie.

In The Crucible, young girls seek the help of Tituba, a slave from Barbados to try to conjure love spells on the young men of the village and dance at night in the woods. This was social unacceptable during the times. However, one girl named Abigail Williams asks for the death of Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor whom she has an infatuated for and had had prior relations with. These happened while she was working as a servant in their home. As a result, Abigail was thrown from house and rumors started...