Many of the characters in the play, The Crucible, all have a lot of pride. Most of them are considered good citizens who would all like to keep and maintain their good name. Reverend Parris is known for living by the bible and its teachings. Judge Danforth is known as a persistent judge who always make the right decisions. When put between the option of life or death, all of these characters chose to keep their reputations by doing the right thing and saving their lives. The importance of having
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play where the town of Salem conducts witch trials and exhibits extreme behavior resulting from dark desires. One notable character, Abigail Williams, was the cause of the mishaps within Salem and displayed an erratic behavior to the townspeople. Her distinct personality and persona have stood out within the plot and ruined John Proctor’s reputation. Abigail Williams actions and dialogue portray her, not only as manipulative but bossy and selfish. Abigail’s physical
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In the play, “The Crucible”, Preserving one’s reputation is a prevalent theme. Some characters tell the truth and others lie to protect themselves or for the people they care about. Three characters from the play that lied to preserve their’s or someone else’s reputation was Thomas Putnam, John Proctor, and Reverend Parris. John Proctor told the truth but didn’t want his name soiled. After he told the truth, he refused to sign his name on a confession paper. The paper would have been hung on a public
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Grendel and Victor are alike, and yet they are different Victor and Grendel are the main characters from two separate books. They are interesting characters who have seen and done dark things any human being would never dream of experiencing. The book This Dark Endeavor has Victor Frankenstein as the main character, and the book Grendel has the monster Grendel as the main character. These books are extremely ominous and both of the main characters endure a terrible demise. They are both misunderstood
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein grapples with the long-contested issue of nature vs. nurture, which explores the concept of how much a person’s behavior and personality are mostly the outcome of nurture, genetics, or outer influences such as environmental factors. Within the text, nature vs. nurture is modeled by the Creature and one could argue that Shelley uses the Creature to emphasize that he was not born inherently evil, but rather his violence was a direct outcome of his abandonment and lack of
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Patrick McCormick, in his article “Why Monsters Have Become Alien to Us” originally appearing in the Christianity magazine, U.S. Catholic (1996), argues that monsters, especially in modern movies, are simply a representation of humans and our disconnection to needy individuals in the real world. McCormick supports his argument by comparing classic monster tales with characters of a certain depth and humanity, such as Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster, that grabs at the compassionate hearts
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“He plows on Sunday” this quote was said by Cheever refering to John Proctor during the Salem which trials. Cheever was proving to the court John was commiting a sin. John Proctor was a hard working man in Salem. John is a sinner and a example is he plows fields on Sunday. He has an afair with a 17 year old girl named Abigail Williams. John Proctor and I are alike in multiple ways such as we both commited sins, are both outcast (or not like everyone eles), and very hard working. The first trait John
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In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, everyone seemed fine in the beginning, but then tales become to unfold and lies are spilled. Deputy Governor Danforth oversees the witchcraft trials in Salem, as well as in other parts of Massachusetts. He likes to think of himself as fair-minded, so it disturbs and angers him to discover that people fear the court. Though Danforth initially demonstrates that he is all high and mighty and all knowing, he reveals that he would listen and consider what the
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of a child by a father has a lasting effect on the social and emotional development of a functioning being. The conflict between father and son can be rooted in many different circumstances and causes long-term conflict. The novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, illustrates the struggle between a father and a son that occurs in all societies and time periods. In the novel, the father-son connection that is most crucial to the theme of the book: the impact of abandonment in a beings life. The relationship
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To start, as if learning about witchcraft isn't already interesting enough, the author of The Crucible, made some minor adjustments to the story will have more twists and turns that will grab the reader and show important aspects of the time period. The most drastic change in the crucible vs real life is that John Proctor, one of the main characters and Abigail did infact never have an affair. This kind of "love interest" or "forbidden love" is the juicy hook that a play evidently needs to grab theater
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