Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Science Hurrican Report Hurrican Report Characterization of Reverend Samuel Parris Throughout The Crucible we are introduced to and follow four or five characters that Arthur Miller elaborated upon. One of those characters Samuel Parris, a bitter minister who came to Salem for unclear reasons. have been he was looking for a small town to control, maybe he was something or someone, or he may have just wanted a fresh, clean start; reason was it is for sure he had no idea what he was going to start. If Salem Witchcraft Trails were to be traced back to one individual it When we are first introduced to Parris he is at the side of his praying for his recovery. It is Parris who calls in Hale and other may be found for his daughter. Once word got out that there were witch all hell broke loose. As three warrants are sent out to arrest the blood bath that is to follow is set into motion. During the trials character of every defendant leaving no one pure. When Frances Nurse with 91 names on it, a petition to set Rebecca, Goody Proctor, and Parris demands that all those on the list be called in for questioning. Danforth, glancing at the list: How many names are here? Frances: Ninety-one, Your Excellency. Parris, sweating: These people should be summoned. Danforth looks up at him questioningly. For questioning. Parris: This is a clear attack upon the court! Parris also attacks Mary Warren harshly when she changes sides to help Proctor clear his wife's name. Once Mary claims she fainted at will he prove this, and once he has weakened her whole defensive stand, the for the kill forcing her to turn on the man she could have saved. proven that the girls were liars for if it was both his daughter and the middle of this elaborate fabrication. Of course if they were would reflect upon his own character and involvement in the bloody game. In the end of the novel Parris does show remorse for the whole ordeal, Proctor is sentenced to hang Parris finally realizes that this has all pleads with Elizabeth to convince John to convince so that his life blood that will be on Parris's own hands. But do not be followed this for if he could have gotten Proctor to confess it would have justified Parris (In deadly fear to Elizabeth) : " Go to him Goody Proctor! There From outside a drumroll strikes the air. Parris is startled. Elizabeth Parris: Go to him! He rushes out the door as to hold back his fate. Samuel Parris was a man who used the Trails for vengeance, vengeance everything that has ever happened to him. For once in his life this power, although once this power was used his role of importance was Danforth and others. Maybe it was that once he was knocked of his realized all this was wrong. Maybe by the end of the novel he finally wrong there were no witches, or it could have been he just wanted the Proctors confession; but whatever it was it really doesn't matter now gone. Without Parris the Trails would not have escalated to what they maybe they would have never even began. Bibliography: Word Count: 671
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