Relationship Between Elizabeth And John In The Crucible

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The love between a husband and wife is almost always present in their hearts. Even if this affection is not shown at all times, past the disagreements and obstacles, there is always intimacy. In Arthur Miller’s original play, The Crucible, two main characters, Elizabeth and John, face a conflict between themselves emotionally when another person comes in between their relationship, ruining it for sometime. However, it is when they both face the witch trials that they realize this one mistake is not more important than their relationship. This ultimately brings the two closer together. Throughout the story, the author uses Elizabeth and John’s evolving relationship to demonstrate how one fault in a relationship and a hardship such as hysteria, …show more content…
A relationship is never perfect as it may have a few problems, but when a mistake like adultery is made, it could become slightly worse, but not broken. In the play, Abigail, a young girl, gets into a close relationship with John, both starting to developing feelings for each other, and John makes a fault and creates a problem unintentionally. After he was involved with adultery, his relationship with Elizabeth starts to fall apart, knowing that it is his fault. For example, he comes home one night to a pot of soup and “he lifts the ladle and tastes [and] he is not quite pleased” like with his relationship(1267). After what happened with Abigail, their relationship has a gap and becomes tasteless, like the soup, and John is trying to fix the problems that he created, by adding some other ingredients. With this conflict in between them, they can’t have integrity towards each other until they realize what it has done to their connection. To stop the separation from becoming worse, John and Elizabeth have been trying to please each other for similar reasons. John wants to make up for what he did to their relationship and Elizabeth wants to make up for being so harsh on him. Even though it was John’s fault, they both

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