Motivation is what encourages a person to behave in a certain way. Cruelty is a common motivator that is mostly used in a selfish way to one’s advantage. Whether it’s throwing others under the bus, or just wanting the attention. In The Crucible, a girl by the name Abigail William’s selfishly wants a married man by the name John Proctor and shows no remorse for any of her actions in her attempt to acquire get him. Her barbarous decisions lead her to a pool of lies, and deceit. The main message in
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The Crucible, a story about the wrongly accused being hanged for standing by their morals and the truth. Abigail and her friends cause the whole town to go into chaos as they accuse many people in the town of being witches, many lie and confess to being witches while some will stand by the truth and plead innocence. The play follows John Proctor and the question I will answer is if Proctor could be considered a tragic hero. One quality a tragic hero must have is a “tragic flaw” or a flaw that will
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Saint Elizabeth Proctor; Faithful Executioner Elizabeth Proctor’s faithfulness to the people she loves, despite betrayal and pain, allows her to sacrifice her unfaltering candor, the thing that she believes will bring her to salvation and that is an ingrained part of her identity, in order to try and save her husband; but it will be their doom. Elizabeth Proctor may be one of the most, if not the most morally pure people within The Crucible. She is honest to a fault, faithful, and kind, simply because
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In The Crucible, Abigail is crazy. At the beginning she doesn’t seem as insane as she does by the end of the play, she just seems concerned about her and her friends being caught for “just dancing in the woods” and for her cousin, Betty, not waking up. As the play goes on her true personality shines through. She starts warning the girls that if they admit to anything that happened that night in the woods, she will come and hurt them in the middle of the night. She starts “seeing the devil” frequently
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The theme in The Crucible is redemption, which is one being saved from sin by their savior or, in a broader sense, redeeming one’s self from their mistake. This is present in life in our daily lives; every time we make a mistake we apologize and try to make it up to the person we caused a mishap. The image relates to the theme by the girl having chains wrapped around her hands which represent the sins she has committed. She is looking up towards the light that shines upon her as a representation
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Proctor: Fabricator or Straightforward? Fabrication is looked at the same way lying is, wrong. Coming up with fiction when the truth needs to be told. John Proctor in The Crucible, is a farmer in a Puritan society. Proctor has a wife, Elizabeth, and three boys, but only two are baptized. In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, John Proctor was a dishonest man by lying, being dishonest towards Reverend Hale, and betraying his family by being actively involved in adultery. John Proctor is a dishonorable
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I found Susan Fraiman's critical essay, "The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennett," particularly illuminating and a very satisfying read. Something about Elizabeth's character struck me as inauthentic the moment she read Mr. Darcy's letter. Perhaps, it was my own desire to see her not be a submissive and passive character in her own narrative, but rather to hold on to her own convictions and, if anything, approach Mr. Darcy on the same level. Moreover, she does not have to own that she has been "prejudice
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This approach views the story as the aristocracy descending to the commoner in its passion to preserve the society by preserving itself. It is this social power of passionate self-preservation that passes through Darcy to Elizabeth as an irresistible romantic attraction. Elizabeth is the best daughter of the gentrified Mr. Bennet and the mother of intense physical energy who is neither educated nor enlightened. The vast reservoir of physical energy of the mother is there in the daughter as the
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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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people may realize that marriage can provide opportunities of class mobility and financial support; money and class are thus closely connected in their decision of marital partners.If marriage is a castle, but the hero and heroine is like Darcy and Elizabeth such person, so, even a not pleasing to begin their mutual see each other bias, and ultimately willing to be trapped in such a city. The power of love is great, it can let a hate in human love change, can let you cast prejudice, and re-know and accept
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