There are many different types of personalities. There are, however, four main types that we are going to focus on in this blog. They are a helper which is the color blue, a thinker the color green, a planner the color gold, and finally a doer which is the color orange. Many people could possibly fall in between these categories and be a mix, but you can pretty well fit just about anybody in one of these categories. Now we're reading "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. The characters that I am going to relate to the chart from "The Crucible" are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, Tituba, and Reverend Parris.
I believe that John Proctor is doer. A doer does a lot of spontaneous and rash things. They do not think their actions all the way through, usually, and tend to be the one everyone is looking at and just thinking to themselves, "Wait...what?" The biggest piece of evidence I have to show to prove John Proctor as a "doer" is his affair with Abigail Williams. This is a perfect representation of something a doer would do. At the time, his wife Elizabeth was very frigid, she even tells us this herself. She was also very sick and we can assume John was not getting the same amount of attention he usually received from his wife. You insert a young and fiery new housekeeper and you have a soon very shamed Puritan with no where to turn.
Our next character is Abigail Williams. She would fall somewhere between a planner and a doer. I would say possibly a planner because whenever confronted about the witch-craft she is very articulate and purposeful with her actions. She plans and takes control of the situation very quickly to ensure that things go as she wants. She makes sure that the other girls know what is going to happen and the consequences if they do not. She does not hesitate. This leads us right into why she might be a doer, as well. She does not hesitate. She knows what she wants immediately and so she acts upon it and takes action with out first thinking what could possibly be the repercussions. Her "doer" side is also reflected in her affair with John Proctor. She does not hesitate to think she could be potentially breaking up a marriage with her actions, but instead goes for what she wants.
Next up, we have a helper. Tituba, Reverend Parris' slave. She is supposedly the one who led the witch-craft in the woods with all of the girls. This is actually very true, however she was not doing it as witch-craft. She was simply practicing her culture. She is African-American and originally from Barbados so she has African roots. Her culture is singing and dancing. So despite the fact she is being completely manipulated and persecuted and accused of thing she hasn't done, she is still kind and caring. Poor Betty is lying in bed, Tituba doesn't care about herself and the mess she's in, she goes to care for Betty anyway.
Lastly, we have Reverend Parris. He is the first character we see in this little novella. He is standing over his sick daughter, Betty's, bed. We initially feel pretty bad for him. We think he is at his daughters deathbed, about to mourn for her. Nope. He's just THINKING about what this will do for his reputation, having witch-craft evident in his house. Reverend Parris is slowly, but thoroughly revealed for the sick individual he is through out the book. He is constantly analyzing situations and thinking what he could do to make them go in his favor. I have decided he is thinker because he is constantly reading into situations and contemplating how they could come out in his odds. He is a very selfish thinker, but a thinker no less.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.
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