one to think they will attain some sort of advantage over someone else. These kind of ulterior motives may come about from fear or jealousy and often can result in negative consequences. In 1962 a witch hunt in the town of Salem was held. In The Crucible, Parris feels like he needs to be in control and tries to maintain a moral order. Abigail is a young girl longing for a relationship with a married man named Proctor. Miller demonstrates that ulterior motives can lead to the destruction of relationships
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Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hathorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, committing a sin was frowned upon and anyone who was to commit a sin would be punished. With society being as strict as it was, those who had committed a sin would try and keep it hidden to save themselves from being punished or have their reputation ruined. Over time, society views and social views have changed in becoming more accepting of this sin. In the novel, The Crucible, John Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams
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THE WITCHES HAMMER The Witches Hammer (the Malleus Maleficarum) is an infamous document in history. According to Hatcliff in the Magical Circle School Resource Library Malleus Maleficarum is “Latin for Hammer of the Witches or Der Hexenhammer in German”. The main purpose of this document is to negate those that claimed that witchcraft did not exist. Another purpose of the Witches Hammer was to educate those in power on the ways to seek out, interrogate, convict, and torture alleged witches. Guiley
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John Proctor The Crucible was a pay that was written by Arthur Miller in 1952 because he was accused of being a communist and he didn't agree with McCarthyism. During the Cold War many were accused of McCarthyism, which is making accusations without proper evidence, and Arthur Miller was a victim of this. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory to McCarthyism. Arthur Miller wrote about people being accused of involvement with witchcraft. Throughout the play The Crucible many of the characters
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Throughout the play Abigail did some horrible things. Had sexual relations with John Proctor, accused innocent people for witchcraft, and when it came down to telling the truth, she stole money and ran. What isn’t really noticed in the play is how awful some of the other girls were. They too went along with Abigail acting horrible and accused innocent people of witchcraft, along with dabbling in the witchcraft themselves. In the beginning of the play the girls were dancing around a fire while Tituba
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Throughout the novel, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Faulkner uses interior monologue. Faulkner uses this style of writing to get the reader to think more. By using interior monologue, the reader is forced to think about what the characters’ thoughts mean about them and about other people. After Darl and Jewel get home, Darl stays on the porch while Jewel goes to the barn. Through Darl’s thought, we know that “Jewel kicks [the horse] in the stomach; the horse arches his neck back, crop-toothed;
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In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, I believe that the main character, Abigail Williams, is to blame. Abigail is a very mean person who always wants everything her way, no matter who gets hurt. Many events from the past might have influenced her behavior, but she is a woman of her own actions. Throughout the play her lies cause many people pain and suffering, but she never really cared unless their name was John Proctor. I feel like she is a victim, not because of the society she is in, but a
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on facts. The possibility of witches in their village brings mass hysteria to the people. While some would say the theme of The Crucible is corruption can happen anywhere, the theme of The Crucible as displayed through the author is that hysteria can rip apart a community, this is expressed through language, symbolism and characterization. First, language in The Crucible displays the theme by showing aggressive and passionate tones. Shouting from the accused at trials shows how bad the hysteria
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believed whoever the person before could blame, no one ever would think of anyone possibly lying or acting? If making a city vulnerable to a witch trial could be easy, Salem and the people living there definitely caused it. In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”, religion, personal vendettas, and human faults, made the individuals and society in Salem vulnerable to a witch hunt. To start off one of many reasons Salem society was vulnerable to a witch hunt was religion. Religion was the main priority in
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Different novels may bring to the reader different tones and moods. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, may make the readers feel depressed because the tone and mood are ironic, gloomy, and dark. Due to the tone and mode the color dark red and song, “There is a Light that Never Goes Out,” by The Smith is relatable to the Scarlet Letter. Tone is known as the attitude of the author towards the reader and mood is known as a literary element were the reader gains feelings from emotion
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