History YMMV / TheCrucible

* TearJerker: Oh Proctor...

* CompleteMonster: Judge Hathorne clearly enjoys his power over life and death, and actively hobbles any attempt to stop the snowballing hysteria.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade
** Although averted with Giles Corey, as he really did die in real life as the play portrayed, allowing his sons to keep the land that he would leave to them. By confessing or denying the accusation, his land would have been forfeit, but instead he kept silent, never affirming or denying the accusations, only asking for more weight to be pressed on him, until he was crushed to death.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade

* ChewingTheScenery: Proctor gets a few of these in the movie. "I say GOD IS DEAAAAAAAAAAD!" Fittingly, he is played by DanielDayLewis.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-dhzSPFiU&feature=related "BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAAAAME!!"]]
** But then it's Daniel Day-Lewis. What do you expect?

* CompleteMonster: Danforth goes beyond redemption.
** Judge Hathorne clearly enjoys his power over life and death, and actively hobbles any attempt to stop the snowballing hysteria.
* EvilIsSexy: Abigail Williams.

** If the scene mentioned under AlternateCharacterInterpretation is omitted, Abigail can come across as this.

** Some people feel that Act 2, Scene 2 actually makes it easier to understand Abigail, since even though her reasons are messed up, at least she has a reason to accuse so many people. Omitting this scene and she (and the other girls) will appear to accuse these people to death for almost no reason at all other than to win over Proctor's bed.
*** Though the scene would have averted from empathizing the extent of the coldblooded cruelty that occurred in history.

* CompleteMonster: Danforth goes beyond redemption. Abigail's pretty loathsome too.

* MagnificentBitch: Abigail Williams manages to use her intelligence, her sexual attractiveness and even her sense of humour to manipulate everyone around her, even arguably managing a KarmaHoudini after essentially achieving mass murder.

** Not to mention Elizabeth.

* {{Squick}}: The entire movie is really graphic during the rape scenes.

* ValuesDissonance: Western audiences may be confused by In-ho's slow response to the obvious abuses occurring around him, but as corporal punishment was legal and widespread in South Korean schools until ''very'' recently, he's bound to be slow on the uptake.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: And considering the recent ban on corporal punishment in South Korean schools, the scrapping of the statute of limitations on the reporting of sex crimes and other legislation to deal with abuse, the anvils seem to be having the desired effect.

* ValuesDissonance: Western audiences may be confused by In-ho's slow response to the obvious abuses occurring around him, but as corporal punishment is legal and widespread in South Korean schools, he's bound to be slow on the uptake.

* CompleteMonster: Park Bo-hyeon and the Lee twins (who all beat and sexually abuse their deaf students) and Yun Ja-ae, who dishes out [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown savage beatings]] bordering on torture to the children. If that wasn't enough, their clear lack of repentance and [[manipulation of the trial proceedings to successfully get themselves off the hook, including Yun intimidating Min-su's frail grandmother into settling outside of court, which she then taunts Yu-jin with,]] should convince you.

!!The Movie

** But then it's Daniel Day-Lewis. What do you expect?

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-dhzSPFiU&feature=related "BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAAAAME!!"]]

** Some people feel that Act 2, Scene 2 actually makes it's easier to understand Abigail, since even though her reasons are messed up, at least she has a reason to accuse so many people. Omitting this scene and she (and the other girls) will appear to accuse these people to death for almost no reason at all other than to win over Proctor's bed.

* TheWoobie: Proctor, Hale, and Mary.Don't forget Rebecca who was originally believed to be the nicest person in Salem.

* TheWoobie: Proctor, Hale, and Mary.

** YourMileageMayVary. Some people feel that Act 2, Scene 2 actually makes it's easier to understand Abigail, since even though her reasons are messed up, at least she has a reason to accuse so many people. Omitting this scene and she (and the other girls) will appear to accuse these people to death for almost no reason at all other than to win over Proctor's bed.

* CompleteMonster: Danforth is actually ''toned down'' compared to some of the real-life judges, but he still goes beyond redemption. Abigail's pretty loathsome too.
** YourMilageMayVary, Given the right amount of alternate character interpretation, no character falls into this territory. Danforth merely sees the issue in terms of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]]. He cannot fathom that there are shades of gray, which is why Hale's change of heart baffles him so.
*** Miller himself admitted in his ''Collected Plays'''s introduction that he regretted not making Danforth evil enough.

* MagnificentBitch: Abigail Williams manages to use her intelligence, her sexual attractiveness and even her sense of humour to manipulate everyone around her, even arguably managing a Karma Houdini after essentially achieving mass murder.

* YouFailGeographyForever: The geography of Salem in the film version. While it was filmed in nearby Ipswich, the coasts of Salem and Ipswich are radically different. Ipswich has sandy beaches due to its exposed location and the Merrimac River's estuary extending along most of its coastline. Salem, on the other hand, is much more sheltered and rocky. This can still be seen in the parts of the city's coast that haven't been developed.

** YourMilageMayVary, Given the right amount of alternate character interpretation, no character falls into this territory. Danforth merely sees the issue in terms of black and white. He cannot fathom that there are shades of gray, which is why Hale's change of heart baffles him so.

* MagnificentBitch:Abigail Williams manages to use her intelligence, her sexual attractiveness and even her sense of humour to manipulate everyone around her, even arguably managing a Karma Houdini after essentially achieving mass murder.

* YouFailGeographyForever: The geography of Salem in the film version. While it was filmed in nearby Ipswich, the coasts of Salem and Ipswich are radically different. Ipswich has sandy beaches due to its exposed location and the Merrimac River's estuary extending along most of its coastline. Salem, on the other hand, is much more sheltered and rocky. This can still be seen in the parts of the city's coast that haven't been developed.

* ChaoticGood: John Proctor oozes this sentiment.

!!the movie