“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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After studying Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, it is clear that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Titube, Judge Danforth, and Abigail Williams. Each of these people, in some way, caused harm to blameless people, and this essay will explain what these people, knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches in Salem Village in 1692. Tituba was the most responsible for the Salem
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Maria Blanco Period 2 The Crucible Essay Draft Fear and loathing can overpower all senses of reason. A doctor conducted that the children were suffering from the effects of witchcraft. Some people were actually innocent and they still hanged them because they thought that they were witches. Salem Reverend Parris attempted to capitalize on fear when he preached about the witches that abounded in Salem. Arthur Miller, in his drama “The Crucible”,illustrates fear through the actions and reactions
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