Thesis Statement: The Main character in The Crucible has both the same characteristics as in Death of a Salesman, sharing protagonist, point of view, and character analysis.
I. Character analysis.
1. Death by a Salesman.
Willy Loman.
1.Struggling elderly shoe salesman lost in false hopes and illusions.
2.Wants Biff (son) to succeed but is really a failure.
Linda Loman.
1.Arbiter of peace in family.
2. Willy's wife; knows Willy is trying to commit suicide but let it happen because she does not want to commit suicide.
Biff Loman.
1. Star football player but flunked out of high school senior year. .
2. Has a struggle between pleasing his father or doing what is right.
Happy Loman.
3. Low moral character constantly with another women, trying to find his way in life. .
4. Is always the "second" son to Biff.
Charlie, Bernard, and Uncle Ben.
5. Charlie is Loman's next door neighbor and owns own sales firm and does not get along with Willy.
6. Bernard is Charlie goody to shoes son who became a successful lawyer and Willy has trouble dealing with that.
7. Uncle Ben is Willy dead brother who appears to him in his flashbacks and times of trouble.
2. The Crucible.
John Proctor.
1. Has an affair with Abagail Williams.
2. Sharply intelligent and exposes girls as frauds.
Elizabeth Proctor.
3. Lies about Husband's affair with Abagail.
4. Wife of John Proctor.
Abagail Williams.
5. Unabashed liar who charges witchcraft to those who oppose her.
6. Attempts to take Elizabeth Proctors place as John's wife.
Deputy Governor Danforth.
7. Governor of Massachusetts more interested in the dignity and preservation stature of the court.
8. Makes Proctor sign a confession to preserve the reputation of the court.
Reverend Samuel Parris.
9. A weak, paranoid, and suspicious demagogue who instigates the witchcraft trails when he finds his daughter and niece dancing in the woods.
10. Paranoid that people are trying to conspire against him and is money hungry fool.
Reverend John Hale.
11. Comes to Parris on Parris request to investigate any supernatural causes for daughter illness.
