Through the evolution of Revered John Hale, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible shows that people must use real support and evidence rather than an unfair and biased opinion based blindly on religion or faith. During Act III, Mary Warren denounces that Proctor is working with the devil and is forcing her to come to the court. Upon hearing this Judge Hathorn calls for the arrest of John Proctor, based entirely off of his religious belief on witches, and not by any other evidence. Responding to Hathorn’s
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How does a reputation influence the actions of an individual? Is it more important to uphold the truth or keep a good name? In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible there is a constant struggle between the up keep of a reputation and staying truthful. Some characters, like Abigail William, are motivated by fear to keep up a good reputation, while other characters like John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse decide that the truth is more important than their name and stick to their morals. There are many factors that
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Character Analysis of Abigail Williams Author Miller’s drama The Crucible takes place in the seventeenth-century in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem suffers from witch-hunts, trials, and false accusations. In effect, the town is full of worry and suspicion; and when young girls falsely accuse self-righteous neighbors in Salem of witchcraft, the town goes against itself, which ultimately causes a conflict between power and aggression. The personality of Abigail Williams, the understood leader of all
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Arthur Miller displays his perception of communism through John Proctor’s perception of witchcraft in the play The Crucible. The play The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts where John Proctor is accused of witchcraft, which was a massive dispute during that time. The Crucible is in part based on McCarthyism in the 1950’s which was similar to the Salem Witch trials. In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, reverend Hale experiences changes proven by the things he says, the things he does
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Unconditional John Proctor, the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, risks everything due to loving two different women. As the play starts readers find out that John is having an affair with the town tart, Abigail Williams. He does not believe in the idea of witchcraft. Proctor is very selfish about the affair with Abigail and states to judge Danforth “A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.” Many things motivate John to change throughout The Crucible such as Abigail
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The Crucible took place in the summer of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. In this time frame the trails of witchcraft were evident around different towns. Arthur Miller wrote a story about the young girls in the community in Salem. In Act I of The Crucible Miller writes about Abigail Williams and makes reference to Elizabeth Proctor. These two women are total opposites in many ways. Abigail is a young girl who is demanding and needs to always be in control, while Elizabeth is a wife, mother to three
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Preserving one’s reputation is a prevalent theme in The Crucible. Several of the characters are concerned about their reputations. Do you think a good name is more important than the truth? I think that the truth is more important because honesty is, im my opinion, the best quality. If you lie just to save your reputation, people may find out and then you would have a reputation for being a liar. If you tell the truth and people know that it is the truth, then you will have a reputation for being
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Imagine you condemned 72 innocent people to death, believing they were guilty, and then discovered that you were wrong. This is the life of Reverend Hale, a character in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, whose actions and inactions greatly impact the lives of the other characters. In Act I, Reverend Hale appears and acts very haughtily. He believes he knows everything about witches and that he is the savior of Salem. For instance, when he says, “Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined,
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During this book you will see many people die for for a reason now-a-days people don’t believe in. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller. This play is based on the events of 1692 and 1693. During this time people believed in witchcraft. Witchcraft is the belief that people made a pact with the devil to do magic. Through it all people stayed true to their values like Rebecca Nurse who stayed to her belief with God and the devil was never here. While I stick to my values through hard times
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Prediction: I am predicting that Cabot took Gabe. He was upset about Alma leaving him when he became mentally unstable. Cabot said that he was going back to Lily, Arkansas. He was very upset about Cullen dating his ex-wife. By taking Gabe he would prove a point not to mess with him. Cullen does not know who took Gabe. By using context clues I was able to predict that Cabot took Gabe to get revenge on Cullen. Quote to support: “It was three hours later and after calling everyone we knew and driving
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