...Crucible/Central park five In The Crucible and Central Park Five people are being wrongly accused to either death or life ruining situations. In the crucible there is a breakout of witchcraft and people are losing their lives. Also their is an affair between John Proctor and Abigail. In the Central Park five innocent boys and men are accused of rape and assault. In the play the crucible by Arthur Miller shows that a hero is based on bravery, courage, and being kind which John Proctor and Reverend Hale show throughout the story. A hero in the crucible is John Proctor although he is more of a tragic hero he is still a hero. “A man may think god sleeps, but god sees everything, I know it now. I beg you sir,I beg you see- her what she is… she thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave and well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance” (act 3). The character trait being shown is his honesty and bravery to tell the truth even though he did wrong. Saying this is heroic because he knows saying this is going to hurt him but it shows his bravery. This is a sign of bravery and shows his personality throughout the story. Another hero is Reverend Hale even though throughout the story...
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...Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” is about the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1692. The conflict arose after many young girls went around accusing people of witchcraft. As fingers were pointed and accusations were made, many people were put on trial and hanged to death. One of the characters in the play who is put on trial is John Proctor. Proctor is a highly respected individual who is proud of his good name. As the story of the play develops, secrets of John's past are leaked and threaten to ruin his reputation. However, Proctor refuses to lose his integrity. To combat the accusations made against him, Proctor displays characteristics of honesty, bravery, and dignity....
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...John Proctor the Hero A person who is admired for their good deeds or actions would be considered a hero. One can receive huge amounts of respect from others because they are a hero. In the story The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor could be considered a hero due to his loyalty in his faith and for ending the executions of innocent people that are accused of being a witch. Heroes aren’t usually perfect; they usually had done something bad that no one really knows about. They don’t always survive through their acts of heroism or live to tell the story. A hero always has some enemies that try to get rid of him or her and sometimes even are successful. In the beginning of The Crucible, Arthur Miller portraits John Proctor as a common...
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...The Crucible Essay In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, John Proctor ragins his sense of goodness by tearing up the confession that Danforth forces him to sign, but is Proctor’s act believable? His action of defying Danforth and the the others who so desperately wanted Proctor to sign the document are believable because of who the man that Proctor is even though some of his actions in the past may contradict the credibility of Proctor tearing up the document. John Proctor is an honest man who takes a big interest in always doing what is right even if it may have consequences for himself; he cares greatly for the people around him especially his family; Proctor stands up for what is right with bravery in every word that he uses when he says...
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...Arthur Miller gives us this play, which represents many things. He shows us people we can relate to and understand. We see trials and tribulations that these characters go through which helps us seem them as raw and unperfect people. Through these effects he establishes the foundations of The Crucible: courage, truth , and weakness which are represented by many characters throughout the play. Elizabeth Proctor, one of the plays most important characters, resembles truth like no other in the play. The part where she reveals her honesty and character is when she is called in front of the court to testify against Abigail Williams for comiting adultery with her husband. In this moment, she lies to protect her husband. Here she is honest to her husband and to her marriage. She is honest and tries to the bigger person in times of trial which is something we can all admire her for. John Proctor, like his wife, has not only superior morals and character, but more courage than the average man. Proctor shows us multiple times that he is more than willing to stand up for...
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...Giles Corey believes they should move on and it the trials have been blown out of proportion, he even says to Reverend Parris, “It suggests to the mind what the trouble to be among us all these years. To all: Think of it.Wherefore is everybody suing everybody else? Think on it now, it’s a deep thing, and dark as a pit. I have been six times in court this year―”(The Crucible, pg 31) He in trust asked about a weird book his wife was reading and nothing uneventful happened to Martha, his wife, questioned the accusations of all the teen girls who are going around accusing people in the village of witchcraft in order to save themselves or revenge. When his wife went to jail for false accusations, but Giles didn’t stay quiet. He knew the risks because the whole village was on the girls side, believing their lies, nonetheless he went ahead of the judge and the villagers to prove his wife's innocence. Imagine him above everyone that believes he is a crazy-old man who comes to overthrow the court. Danforth says to Giles, “And how do you imagine to help her cause with such contemptuous riot? Now be gone. Your old age...
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...The Crucible “How do you call Heaven! Whore! Whore!” This quote explains John Proctor’s loyalty to Elizabeth Proctor. Although he says he committed adultery, he attempts to throw Abigail out of power. This shows that he is still trying to help Elizabeth Proctor from hanging. The common traits that I share with John Proctor are loyalty, determination, and leadership. One common trait that I share with John Proctor is that we are both loyal people, and we are very trustworthy. John Proctor is loyal in the fact that he said he committed adultery. This may not seem like something that would show loyalty, but it does. He didn’t want Elizabeth Proctor to be hung or killed. It shows that he loved his wife more than he wanted to have an affair with...
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...Maintaining a clean reputation is critical to characters in The Crucible. Keeping a good name is most important to John Proctor and Abigail Williams. John Proctor does everything in his power to keep his reputation the way it is. The village views John Proctor as an honest and dependable man. John preserves his name in the village by lying in court and standing up for himself. In the final act, Proctor signs a document stating that he committed adultery but is too embarrassed to have it nailed to the church. He is truly frustrated as he defends his name: “How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (Miller 1333). John’s bravery shows as he signs his name. John is giving the judge the power to destroy by signing...
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..."…. A person is either with this court or they must be counted against it." How do both texts show us that there is little room for justice in an oppressive society? Injustice is often a result of oppression as absolutist societies establish a dichotomy of good and evil to manipulate the powerless into subservience. The allegories by George Orwell and Arthur Miller denounce the harmful effects of tyranny, as it generates deception and fear, enabling despotic individuals to gain power and control. Miller’s play, The Crucible, advocates for the necessity of transgression to gain autonomy, as Salem’s theocracy is eventually broken; however, it is Orwell’s novella, Animal Farm, that exposes the unjust reality in which rebellion does not always guarantee freedom,...
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...Salem is a backstabbing, greedy, and two faced community. Salem is in chaos because of all the talk about witchcraft. I chose to represent Giles Corey, Samuel Parris, and Thomas Putnam from the play The Crucible. The first character I chose was Giles corey. Giles Corey An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem. Giles is married to Martha Corey. I represented Giles Corey on my character art poster as dark red stones. The second character I chose was Reverend Samuel Parris. Samuel Parris is the minister of Salem’s church. Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry type of character in this play. I represented Reverend Samuel Parris on my character art poster as orange coins. Also not many of the townsfolk like him. The last character I chose was Thomas Putnam. Putnam is a wealthy, and influential citizen in Salem. I represented Thomas Putnam as dark green trees. I put all my symbols on a black background because Salem is a very dark place. I made the black sheet of paper have jagged sides because...
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...John Proctor In a story it is easy to have the character end up doing the right thing in the end for a happy ever after, but in real life it’s harder to sacrifice everything to do the right thing. Most of us only think about ourselves and what is best for us, but never really take the time to think of others. John Proctor is a character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible who did many things wrong in his past and then when the time came he turned out to do the right thing. Although he is in a story he still shows bravery by coming clean and accepting whatever consequence that he would get for his sins. John was an average man with a lovely wife who he would get kind of testy with. He would snap at her and get angry with her for no reason at all (Miller 1163-1164). He would say things like I'm the man of the house and he says that he does so many things for their house, so he is basically saying she does nothing for the house (Miller 1164). John also had an affair with their old maid Abigail who Elizabeth fired. Abigail is really into John also John is not as into it as he was before. He tries to to tell Abby to forget about it, but she won't let that happen because she is in love with John (Miller 1139). He get super nervous to make sure that people don’t find out about the affir. If he didn’t want to...
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...For years, the conflict between Britain and France was always on the verge of war. Walter Borneman retells the history of the events that decided the fate of North America. In his book, The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America, Borneman does recognize that this topic has been discussed and greatly studied by Fred Anderson’s Crucible of War. Borneman explains the military side of the French and Indian War, and the major battles that caused large turning points in the war. His main argument focuses on how the aftermath of the war affected the outcome of the American Revolution. Borneman does a remarkable job writing for the everyday reader which is something students constantly look for in a book and he delivers that impeccably....
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...A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSIC EDITION OF GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM By HAZEL K. DAVIS, Federal Hocking High School, Stewart, OH S E R I E S W. GEIGER ELLIS, ED.D., E D I T O R S : UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, EMERITUS and ARTHEA J. S. REED, PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, RETIRED A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm 2 INTRODUCTION Animal Farm is an excellent selection for junior and senior high students to study. Although on one level the novel is an allegory of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the story is just as applicable to the latest rebellion against dictators around the world. Young people should be able to recognize similarities between the animal leaders and politicians today. The novel also demonstrates how language can be used to control minds. Since teenagers are the target not only of the educational system itself but also of advertising, the music industry, etc., they should be interested in exploring how language can control thought and behavior. Animal Farm is short and contains few words that will hamper the reader’s understanding. The incidents in the novel allow for much interactive learning, providing opportunities for students to dramatize certain portions, to expand on speeches, and to work out alternative endings. The novel can be taught collaboratively with the history department as an allegory of the Russian Revolution, allowing students to draw parallels...
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...University of Tennessee, Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Masters Theses Graduate School 5-2010 Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context Leah Rang University of Tennessee - Knoxville, lrang@utk.edu Recommended Citation Rang, Leah, "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/655 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact trace@utk.edu. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Leah Rang entitled "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context." I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, with a major in English. Urmila Seshagiri, Major Professor We have read this thesis and recommend its acceptance: Lisi Schoenbach, Bill Hardwig Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official student records.) To the Graduate Council:...
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...Kautilya's Arthashastra Translated into English by R. Shamasastry Kautilya's Arthashastra Translated into English by R. Shamasastry Kautilya's Arthashastra Table of Contents Book I, "Concerning Discipline" .............................................................. 3 Book II, "The Duties of Government Superintendents" ....................... 60 Book III, "Concerning Law" ................................................................. 213 Book IV, "The Removal of Thorns"...................................................... 285 Book V, "The Conduct of Courtiers" ................................................... 336 Book VI: The Source of Sovereign States ............................................ 362 Book VII, "The End of the Six-Fold Policy" .......................................... 370 Book VIII: Concerning Vices and Calamities........................................ 467 Book IX, "The Work of an Invader" ..................................................... 490 Book X, "Relating to War" ................................................................... 521 Book XI, "The Conduct of Corporations" ............................................ 541 Book XII, "Concerning a Powerful Enemy" ......................................... 547 Book XIII, "Strategic Means to Capture a Fortress" ............................ 563 Book XIV, "Secret Means" ................................................................... 584 Book XV, "The Plan of a Treatise" ......
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