pretending there is a Devil in Salem which is causing people to die for what they believe in. All the girls in the group that was caught singing and dancing in the forest attend every witch trial, in which case Mary Warren, the Proctor’s current servant, and Abigail Williams sat beside each other when Mary made the poppet for Elizabeth Proctor. The people of authority during the trials go to the Proctor’s house to find the poppet since Abigail accuses Elizabeth of murder as Hale saying, “Abigail were stabbed
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I believe the that in the crucible the most defined thing in it is the vengeance and guilt . in many scenes and all acts vengeance and guilt was two if not the most obvious trait in this whole play. but the three main reasons are all between two women and a man. These two women are Abigail who is the antagonist in this play and john proctors wife Elizabeth proctor. Also proctor felt guilty so he admitted that he did adultery with Abigail. and lastly the guilt that abigail must of had realizing
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No, I do not believe that John Proctor’s design to hang instead of admitting that he was consorting with the devil is an act of excessive pride or stubbornness. I instead believe that John Proctor is the tragic hero of the Crucible and that his decision to choose principle over self preservation was an honorable act with the goal of affirming his goodness before God. In the second act of the Crucible, the audience first meets the character of John Proctor while he is in his home with his wife Elizabeth
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The Crucible and Honor With a story based on the mass hysteria of the red scare, and characters that are about as evil as they come, The Crucible dramatizes events that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. The story, written by Arthur Miller, gives the viewer a glance into the lives of those who lived during the Salem witch Trials. It is dark and dismal and brimming with symbolism, from comparisons to Communism, to a man’s honor in his name. Due to false accusations, the lead of The Crucible, John
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McCarthy, an “anti-Communist inquisitor” used “ guilt-by-association techniques” to rid America of Communism (Bach, Morten, and Hale, Korcaighe 68). The red scare led to many people fearing everyone else, thinking of them as Communist. In the Salem Witch Trials, witchcraft haunted the village much like during McCarthy era, Communism haunted America. During the McCarthy era and the Salem Witch Trials, people became so scared of accusations of witchery or Communism that they proceeded to try almost
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The term mass hysteria is defined as a situation in which many people are affected by similar hysterical symptoms. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller a situation of mass hysteria is perfectly portrayed. The play takes place during the Salem witch trials, at the peak of the witch hysteria. The hysteria, which sent the village into a frenzy was set into motion by the niece of Reverend Samuel Parris. His niece, Abigail Williams, is portrayed as a person who lies to get out of her own punishments
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In the book Where Things Come Back John C. Whaley emphasizes how death can change one’s life to make you better person or make you worse person. In the book there’s three main characters Cullen the main character, Benton who’s a young Christian who goes on his first mission and goes to Ethiopia to help spread the word of god, then there’s Cabot Searcy who meets Benton then meets Cullen, Cabot can be thought of as the connection between all of them. Most of the Story takes place in Lily, Arkansas
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Karen Hesse the author of a book Witness Karen uses multiple point a view to show how the Ku Klux Klan is bad and how people thought they were good.The Ku Klux Klan (K.K.K) is bad because they scare people, they hurt people, and they destroy stuff. My first reason that the K.K.K is bad is that they scare people. In a book Witness by Karen Hesse on page 52 they lit a cross on fire, and on page 54 it says that Leonora got scared when she woke up and she hid in a closet. Also on page 55 it says “Only
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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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“I cannot sleep for dreamin’; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’ll find you comin’ through some door” (Miller, Act 1, pg 23). The Crucible by Arthur Miller holds a description of the Salem Witch trials. Arthur Miller lived in the “McCarthyism” era, in which people had accusations thrown at them that they might possibly be communists in the way that the accusations of being witches could be thrown at innocents in 1672 Salem. Miller himself carried the accusation of being
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