dark. There are many important things that happen in the crucible, and there are many important characters in the crucible that i will be talking about in the. All these characters are important in the crucible because they all have to deal with a big part in the crucible. The three characters that i will be talking about from the book are john proctor, abigail williams, and giles corey. All these characters have an important role in the crucible and i feel like you should know about these characters
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People in life have to make choices and decisions and some it's because of their own actions or could be because of someone else too. In the Story The Crucible John Proctor has to make choices and decisions throughout the book like when he had to make the choice when he has an affair with Abigail, violating his marriage vows and lying. John Proctor yells to the town saying that God is dead and gets put in jail for being charged against being apart of witchcraft. John has a chance to save his
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The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. In this small town we see how hysteria spreads like wildfire when a group of young girls, led by a seventeen year old named Abigail, stir up some trouble. Hysteria takes place all throughout the story and we can see that it is an important aspect of the play. In Act 1 we see hysteria when Mr. Hale questions Abigail about what they were doing dancing in the woods. Abigail doesn’t want to get in trouble
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Mass hysteria is a social phenomenon wherein people valve something worthwhile, to such an extreme level, that it leaves to them doing horrible things to maintain it. The Crucible and Swing Kids share many commonalities that make them examples of mass hysteria. The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials and they show a number of teenage and preteen girls feeling (or at least claiming they feel) as though they are being cursed by witches, so they seek to root them out. In Swing Kids
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First, The Crucible Acts 1-2 will be summarized. People begin to talk about witches and the town becomes frightened. Because the “cursed” girls accused so many people, the court decided to hold trials. They began arresting people that looked guilty at first, because of who they are. After a while, innocent people who went to church were arrested. Since the court wanted to rid their world of evil, they began to hang and arrest innocent people. Next, the events in “The Birthmark” will be discussed
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In the Crucible, by Arthur Miller my character Abigail is seen as a selfish person who only looks to do things for her own convenience. Throughout the book we can see Abigail do many actions to benefit herself rather than helping others. The reason she acts this way is because she is worried about her reputation. She also fears being singled out from the Christian community. The only thing she has left is her reputation which is why it is so important that she keeps it. In the phrase “She made me
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The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts around the year of 1692. The Crucible contains belief of witchcraft, along with deal making with the devil. There also is a affair between a married man and a servant. Therefore, there ends up being multiple hangings. John Proctor whose married to Elizabeth Proctor has an affair with Abigail Williams. She had been John’s wife’s servant before Mrs.Proctor released her of her duty. Reverend Parris had discovered multiple girls dancing in the forest
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In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, people who were innocent were accused of witchcraft. These people lived in a community that had high morals, and they stood up to their morals. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts people's pride and name meant a lot, so people did whatever they needed to in order to keep their reputation clean. In The Crucible John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and Martha Corey are amongst those who are accused of witchcraft even though they are innocent, and to keep their
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Mock Trial Jury Member Naomi Was She Guilty? So we end on a less fortunate note upon Abigail Williams. Did she help conspire these murders in Selma? The jury says yes, (Off with her head! What a heartless bunch, nobody pleaded against the decision) but was she truly guilty? We, the jury, listened to each witness, while scrambling to take notes; experienced emotions of confusion, intimidation, and occasionally questioned if the witnesses were even honest… Starting with Mary as first witness, the
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Fear can lead good people to do horrific acts, especially when religion is involved. For example, in the play The Crucible the girls who was following Abigail knew dancing was considered in Salem as an act of the devil. When they got caught dancing in the forest, they began to think about their punishments in this case, were whippens, jail, or even worse death. They decided to keep following Abigail's lead and began to claim that the devil and these images of the people from Salem tried to make them
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