Crucible Act Two Reflection

In class the other day, each student took a test that determined their personality type.  The four choices for the personality types were all different from each other.  The personality type I got was blue.  This color described me as being a helper.  I care about others and I try to help people through their problems.  This was the closest personality type to me because the other one's were not even close to my personality.  My second highest personality type was orange.  Orange is a doer.  Doer's go out and they do not analyze their decisions before making them.  They live in the moment and they are not very organized people.  This was somewhat close to me because I make impulsive decisions sometimes, but not all the time.  My next closest personality was green.  Green means that you are a thinker.  Thinkers have a different perspective on life then most people.  They analyze things very closely and always think every decision over and over.  This is not close to my personality.  The last personality type to choose from is the gold personality, or planner.  Planners are super organized and think every decision over multiple times.  They keep themselves busy and plan out every aspect of life.  This is the least personality like me, which makes sense because I am not organized at all!

Anyway, all this testing leads to the assignment which was to read Act II of the Crucible and to analyze the personality types of the characters using this test that we took in class the other day. The first character to analyze is Abigail.  Abigail seems to be a blue personality.   Blue people are described as people who keep to themselves, and they are very emotional.  Abigail displays passion and emotion during this novel through her rebelling against her colony.  She does not want to go with the colony anymore.  This passion makes her a blue personality.  A second character is also a blue, would be Mary Warrens.  She seems to be very quiet but still had very emotional and passion driven moments like Abigail.  Some different characters then them would be Reverend Hale.  He seems to be a very intelligent man and critical thinker.  He often analyzes things in a different way than other people and this leads me to think that he would be put into the green personality category.  He is very realistic in his thoughts and this makes him more green than anything else.  He says what he thinks because in this time period he believed in serving God as being their whole world, so he says what everyone is afraid of hearing.  Hale says:

"the Devil is alive in Salem, we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!"(Miller 71).

This makes him green because he says his thoughts and that is what thinkers do.  They analyze then declare their thoughts.  Even though their thoughts may not be right, they still think and believe what they "know".

Therefore, the characters in this novel are very similar to us in ways.   Proven through this quiz, we possess many similar qualities with these characters.  

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.

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