As Mahatma Ghandi once said, “An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind”. The desire to settle a score for old and new grudges only leaves chaos and waste in its wake. Throughout the ages vengeance has played an important role in history and literature. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller the theme vengeance is portrayed as neighbor turns on neighbor. First, as the theme vengeance reoccurs throughout the play The Crucible many people end up turning on each other to exact their revenge
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community or nation. Even though Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams are both opinionated, only one holds something that is purely opinion whilst the other holds a solid basis upon faith.
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What would you do if you loved one person and were expected to love another? John Hollbrook should have accepted Judith Wood as his bride despite his love for Mercy for three reasons: Mercy’s selfless heart, Judith’s passionate love, and disappointment’s terrible consequence. The first reason John should have accepted Judith as his bride is Mercy’s selfless heart. Judith’s sister Mercy was an incredibly selfless and generous person. While Mercy loved John, she would never take anything her sister
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question is John Proctor a tragic hero? In the beginning John Proctor was cheating on his wife with a young girl named Abigail. Abigail is mischievous young girl of 16 who dance in the forest and drank blood of a chicken in order to kill John’s wife, Elizabeth Proctor. John had an affair with this girl, a girl who tried to use magic to kill his wife. Thous he broke one of the most important christian rule of “Adultery, John” (Miller 64). A rule that he could not remember when he was ask to say the Commandments
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The cauldron The Crucible a play written by Arthur Miller is a story about the the witch trials in Salem. The theme of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, is that dishonesty started and perpetuated the witch trials, while honesty brought about their end . The girls started the witch trials in Salem. Lies from the accused kept the trials going. The Honest brought about their end. The girls started the witch trials in Salem with their dishonesty and lies. It started when Abigail and Parris talking about
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Crazy Abigail Williams is crazy. There are a lot of examples throughout the book of her doing outright crazy things such as her accusing John Proctors wife, Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft hoping that Elizabeth will be executed or drinking blood to kill Elizabeth etc.. . Abigail accuses Tituba because she thinks people will believe witchcraft is something Tituba would most likely be involved in. "Crazy" people don't have empathy. Abigail Williams doesn't show any signs of empathy. The author says
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innocent people. Especially in the salem witch trials. Some of these lies that were told were because of vengence. Lying comes at a cost because Elizabeth Proctor got her husband hanged, Abigail Williams got most the people accused and killed in salem, Samuel Parris and Thomas Putnam lie but there's not much effect on what they lied about. First off, Elizabeth Proctor is a holy women, but when she told a lie to show that John Proctor is a good man, it lead to having her husband being condemned and then
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With social media and the internet providing so much information to the world, it’s hard to determined when that information is true or not. Many of us just blindly believe what others think and say without ever trying to come up with our own conclusion. Obviously social media and the internet didn’t start it. This concept of just following someone else’s ideas like blind sheep has been around for as long as time. Even with that, people eventually open their eyes to the madness and create and judge
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The Bridge Witch Every day at exactly 12:00am, a evil witch comes to the border where the evil kingdom and the jungle kingdom meet. The witch cast a spell on the twin sisters, which are the founders of the jungle kingdom and chained them together forever. The witch from the evil kingdom has hired three trained body guards and put a spell on animals to kill them. The two fearless twin sisters were named Victoria and Kristine in which they each have different weapons
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but being a pirate as he is, he steals the toll collector’s bag and acquires more money than he gave. He is also able to find a hole to escape when Commodore Norrington and the British Navy catch him after saving Miss Elizabeth Swann. When he is handcuffed he uses them and Elizabeth to escape. Also, because he knows that the British Navy does not trust him, he skillfully tricks them. With the help of William Turner he steals the Commodore’s ship with a few tricks up his sleeve. He pretends to steal
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