Three of the characters in The Crucible are very similar to three characters in Sommersby. The three characters The Crucible are John Proctor, his wife Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. The three characters in Sommersby are Jack Sommersby (Horace Townsend), Laurel Sommersby, and Orin Meecham. John Proctor is like Laurel Sommersby in the sense that they have both committed the sin of adultery. Jack Sommersby is much like Elizabeth Proctor because they both have their reasons to believe their spouse is cheating on them, but don't have the concrete evidence to confront their spouse. And the relationship between the two couples can be described in the same way; they are very uncomfortable around each other. Orin is similar to Abigail Willia

In both stories the wives were brought up to testify during the trials. In both stories the wives do almost the same thing. In Sommersby Laurel says that she knows the person impersonating Jack is not really him. She says this because she knows if she does then the court cannot try Jack for the murder. Elizabeth Proctor does the same thing when she is brought into court and asked if she ever suspected that her husband had been having an affair with their housekeeper, Abigail. Trying to keep John from prosecution, she says no she had no idea that john had any relationship with Abigail and that she fired Abby because she was doing a poor job. Both Laurel and Elizabeth lie to keep their husbands alive, even though Laurel was telling the truth the she at the time had not confirmed this suspicion.

ms because they are the ones that are having the affair with either Laurel or John. Both of them also try very desperately, with no success, to maintain their relationship with the person they are committing adultery with. Some of the characters in these two stories have something similar to the character in the other story.

Jack Sommersby and John Proctor made similar decisions prior to not confessing or denying the crimes the

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