Set in 1692 Salem, Matechusses, The Crucible portrays the witch trials taken place in this time. Arthur Miller creates an atmosphere of hysteria through the use of fear and terror, clearly seen in act III the yellow bird scene. Through lack of evidence and falsely accused individuals, Miller turned the town into a place of madness and doubt, as seen when John Proctor is put on the stand to testify for his wife. He says he “rung the doom of [his] good name”(111) for his wife in hopes that
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“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies!” When Arthur Miller wrote this line in his book the Crucible a lot of emotion was felt and implied. In the religious town of Salem in 1692, a horrific incident occurs as neighbor turns on neighbor, and as the fear of witches grows. Many people realize that this is an opportunity to fulfill their greed and seek revenge on those they hate. The low moral value of most Salem residents becomes obvious
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The Crucible Rough Draft Prompt #4 Haven't we all heard the saying ¨Snitches get Stitches.¨,well in the play snitches get rewards. In the crucible the play by Arthur Miller people have been pointing fingers at each other. If abigail had not use scapegoating in the play no innocent people would have died. Abigail got caught in the woods by tituba and she told the court “I never called him! Tituba,Tituba…” and tituba calls out Goody Osburn “Aye,sir,and Goody Osburn.” This explains that abigail tells
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“It is better to dies for what you believe in rather that lie to save your life.” I agree with this statement because the radio play “The Crucible” is set in the 1950s where people’s names represent their reputation in the society and reputation was considered very important at that time. In this radio play John Proctor is threatened to be executed if he does not confess to sins that he has not committed. I feel that his decision to die instead of declaring lies and get chance to live was a good
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Herrick “ John Proctor we have a warrant out for your arrest get out here now” Herrick is in his marshall cloths arrest John Proctor 2 night after Francis Nurse and Rebecca Nurse. It was a dark and gullme day for John Proctor (baggy wore down cloth), Rebecca Nurse ( Worn down dress she got taken to jail in), and Francis Nurse ( Worn down dress, with a tone of of holes in the dress) are all getting hung for not confessing about seeing the devil. They were on the way to the hanging when Proctor noticed
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Betty is not waking up. Everyone at this point was leaning to the cause of witchcraft and was blaming Tituba. Rebecca Nurse said that Betty was only faking and that she would stop when she got hungry. Rebecca also told everyone to keep praying for the little girl. Reverend Parris called Reverend Hale for his assistance in the matter about witchcraft in the town of Salem. Abigail Williams saw John Proctor and went over to him. she then claims that Proctor still loves her as they were talking together
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Integrity is one of the most important themes that was shown in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in that it shows how that people have the tendency to lie and be deceitful. For instance, Abigail ends up getting eighteen people hanged when she lies about “drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife” (p. 12) and “never saw no spirits” (p. 54). Furthermore, the book shows how doing the right thing leads to dignity when John Proctor will not “lie and sign [him]self to lies” and hangs innocently. Finally,
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In Arthur Miller’s controversial play, “The Crucible,” John Proctor suffers the consequences of committing adultery. John Proctor has an affair with Abigail Williams, who is his house keeper. If John Proctor didn’t have an affair with Abigail then the witch trials would have resulted much differently. John Proctor goes against his religion, the Puritan way of life, and cheats on his wife, Elizabeth Proctor with Abigail. So now Abigail is starting to make all this remarks about their relationship
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play ‘The Crucible’ written my Arthur Miller an important idea the developed throughout the text is reputation and injustice. It shows us that in an environment where people are shelter, oblivious, and ignorant, peple may behave in ways that are unjust in order to protect their reputation. Arthur Miller was able to develope these ideas through the setting and characters. He was able to incorporate his own experience into his play as he was a victim himself of McCarthyism. The Crucible is set in
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I have got to keep you up with the music I’m listening to here in Salem! Being involved in this whole “witch catching” business, means that I don’t get much recess. But, when I do, I love to listen to Ed Sheeran’s song Drunk. He understands me! There are so many valuable quotes from the song which I feel really get my battle against Proctor in this entry. One of the first quotes I noticed was, “without you to hold I’ll be freezing”. As you will have known from my previous diary entries, I loved
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