Wow!! Look what we have here. I think it’s crazy how Abigail did things and tired to lie about it. She blame it on everyone like she wasn’t quality and her group of friends falsely accused innocent citizens of witchcraft. She was trying to harm a lot of people when the community was the type of community that always be there for each other. Abigail is a very evil girl. In the beginning of the story on page 1130 Miller explains that Abigail was in the forest dancing with a group of girls
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The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch Trials, which takes place is a small Christian village. This small community is rocked to the very core due lies upon lies. The first of the lies come from a young girl and a married man who at first is unwilling to divulge his unfaithfulness. The young girl, named Abigale was dismissed from her position as a servant within the Procter household, because her employer, Elizabeth, knew about the affair between her husband and Abigale. Elizabeth
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The Crucible vs. The Holocaust The Crucible play and The Holocaust have many similarities and hardly any differences. Both events are very manipulative. During the play, Abigail Williams convinced the entire town that certain people were practicing witchcraft. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler convinced many people in Germany that the world would be a much happier place without the presence of Jews. The Holocaust is an event where Hitler came to power in Germany. It began in 1933. An estimate
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The play, ¨The Crucible¨, by Arthur Miller, took place in a fairly small village called, Salem. Three very important characters in the play were Abigail, Elizabeth Proctor, and John Proctor. The three of them had very mixed feelings toward each other. Elizabeth and John Proctor were husband and wife, but John cheated on her with Abigail. Elizabeth kicked Abigail out of the house because she knew that her and John were having an affair, which caused Abigail to feel envious towards Elizabeth. If Abigail
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The Crucible is a fictional novel, that has been turned into a play as well, about a strictly puritan (English protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries) village called Salem, and in this village rumors develop into huge dilemma where everyone is accusing each other of participating in acts of blasphemy, mainly witchcraft. These accusations lead to Salem’s downfall. The author of this intense novel is Arthur Miller. He showed in The Crucible that one’s choices are crucial to life in many ways
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In act two, Giles Corey was asked to “name names” in the problematic situation that he got himself into. Giles came into the courtroom accusing Thomas Putnam of “killing his neighbor for land.” Thomas isn't the one killing for his neighbor's land. He had his daughter Ruth cry witchcraft of poor little George Jacobs so he could get hung for witchcraft. Just for Thomas Putnam to get his land. When Giles came into the courtroom telling the court about his theory he has about Thomas, He said that “a
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The Story of John Proctor Is John Proctor a tragic hero? My definition of a tragic hero is a person who may be heroic but is destined to face a tragic downfall. I will explain why; in my eyes John Proctor was definitely a tragic hero. First of all Proctor was a good person. John Proctor was an honest man with an honest wife. He had a good, white name in the town of Salem. He seemed to be almost perfect.. except for one big secret flaw. John Proctor had an affair with a young woman who used
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One basis for stating that this film is unreliable is found actions characters portrayed. One case in the film can be found in the opening scene when the accusers along with Tituba dance around a boiling pot while a chicken is decapitated; in reality, there is no evidence nor recollection of this ever occurring. Also, the film states that this particular event was the cause for the entire witch trials but this is erroneous. Actually, the reason for the start of the trials was unknown until Linnda
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The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum tells the tale of a young girl Dorothy as she wanders through the land of Oz. In the original movie adaptation, Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the East causing the Wicked Witch of the West to avenge her sister by making Dorothy pay. The Wicked Witch of the West has become a common archetype for the definition of a “wicked witch” with her long nose, green skin, and black hat. Both the novel and movie portray the witch as an evil relentless character disliked readers
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have tried to relate. Which means there is no surprise that Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is an allegory for the Red Scare and the McCarthy Era as well. To start off, the background of The Crucible was awfully similar to that of the McCarthyism Era, making it viable grounds for creating an allegory.
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