Ethel Ghisolis Language and culture III

The Crucible and The Witch.

 

We can find a lot of similarities and differences between the movie and the novel such as
religion. For instance, In the movie “The Witch”, religion was an important issue because the
family was very religious and devoted to God. They used to pray every day at every
moment. the same situation can be found in the book “The Crucible” in which Reverend
Parris considered both, religion and his church, as an special matter. That is why he was
worried and disappointed when he realized that his daughter Betty and his niece Abigail
could be witches. A similar situation can be found in the film “The Witch”, there the parents
had felt the same impression. They were worried about their children and prayed for their
salvation.

A remarkable difference with that family was Tituba in The Crucible. ​Tituba, the Reverend
Parris’s slave, was a woman from Barbados who practiced what the Puritans viewed as
“black magic.” Of course, she mainly did that because the conniving Abigail manipulates her
into doing it. In the film, the elder daughter called Thomasin who was known as the witch of
the wood and who was guilty of her brothers´ death.

One of the most important similarity between those two stories was that both witches, Abigail
and Thomasin, were still alive at the end the stories but with a different ending. In The
Crucible, Abigail accused other woman. Meanwhile, In The Witch, Thomasin was the
accused.

To sum up, I believe that witches do not exist and those kind of women who practised
witchcraft were probably mad or suffered from some mental disorder.