Reflection Blog - 4

I will start with the character that has the color that is easiest for me to define. I believe Putnam is a gold. He is extremely strong willed. When they are trying to take his wife away, Putnam will not let them. Putnam does not waver in his opinion on that. He does not let anyone else sway him. He knows what is just, and will not hear otherwise. An attitude like that is very "gold", so to speak. He also cares for his family a lot. He is trying to protect his wife, and has great protective instincts. He also cares for his kids. He seems like a man of routines and is somewhat narrow-minded. This is why I believe that Mr. Putnam definitely has some "gold" qualities about him.

I believe that Mr. Parris would show up on the true colors quiz as a green. Parris is a very inquizitive man, and questions everything. Rather than taking his time to listen and to understand Abigail, he instead shuts off all emotion and tries to anylize everything that Abigail says. I do understand how he could do that, considering the very stressful and frightening situation with his daughtor, but Parris was analyzing things so much that it went a little over the top.

I believe that Abigail is a blue. She is very emotional. I am not just saying that she is emotional because she is a teenage girl, buy I think she is very emotional down to her inner core. Everything that she said was geared around emotion. She would not say anything and would lie to cover up for the things she did because she did not want to get into trouble. But doing that seemed to be eating her alive, and she eventually had to spill her guts, which was a very emotional thing to do. Abigail was very soft spoken before she spilled her guts, and that also showed that she was a blue. Blues tend to be very caring and loving and emotional. I think Abigail was all of those things. She also had many emotions tied into Mr. Putnam and she cared for him and was not always rational in her thinking about him, but very much so more emotional.

I think Mr. Hale is a gold. He is a very methodical man and does everything by the rules. He does not jump to conclusions, but instead looks at every possibity before looking ahead. He seems like a very just man and lives very much so by the rules. He was ok with puting the women in jail because he knew it abided with the law. He was also naive and thought that the women would not get senteced and would get let out the next day. I do think that if he knew the reality of the situation he would have been more proactive in helping Elizabeth Proctor get out of it, and he would take a more firm stance and try to stop the injustice that was happening.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. A Play in Four Acts. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. Print.