Imagine having to constantly live with a guilt for an event that never happened. During the Red Scare this is what was occurring all around. In The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor was accused by Abigail William because of her hatred towards Elizabeth. In the Red Scare they targeted celebrities because they thought they were high targeted and could possibly be a communist. The Red Scare influenced the book “The Crucible” by reflecting the United States government with the court of Salem, people who were
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afflicted the way he did everything. He broke down and confessed he made contact with devil. “...I see his [Lucifer] filthy face! And it is my face…” (Applebee et al. 227) Before this confession Proctor was controlling Mary Warren during the questioning of her and the girls of salem. Mary was subservient to Proctor at this time. He
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Throughout the play Mary Warren appears to be the weak one and at first wants to confess to the activities in the woods, but in Act 2 Mary Warren is believed to be helping Abigail
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In The Crucible, the witch trials were a major point of focus. There are numerous acts that needed to happen to lead to the witch trials and the ending of the novel. Girls in Salem had countless expectations, including the expectation to be perfect children. They were trained, even as children, to act like mature adults. The problem is that when a child is forced to act like an adult at such a young age, but aren’t treated as adults, they may feel ignored. When a child is ignored, they
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Social responsibility is the ethical framework which suggests that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of the society as a whole. A historical example of failure to be social responsible is Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, during the World War II era. During that time Hitler’s ideology and lack of social responsibility towards the citizens led to the death of millions of people. The citizens of Germany were incapable of taking responsibility and standing
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Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s creation. Each of the three characters experience their heartache in different ways and for differing reasons, but they can all relate because of the problems they go through in the novel. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, three of the main characters experience isolation, which causes them emotional instability and depression that leads to their awful and distressful lives. Frankenstein’s
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Crucible Essay Suspicion can destroy because it causes hysteria and there are consequences for that. Rod Sterling’s quote and The Crucible are very similar in the way that suspicion ruined many lives and reputations in each story. The Cold War was a war of words, a war of suspicion, of hatred and power. Arthur Miller and Rod Serling both connect to the war in the 1950s in an allegorical way. In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller expresses similar views about suspicion through the characterization
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Abigail Williams: The witch trials in Salem occurred because of Abigail. Abigail Williams is a character from the play “The Crucible”. She was raised by the village she grew up in. It was her fault that the trials had even occurred. She started something she could not finish and by starting it she killed many innocent people. Abigail is at blame because she did all of this just to get with John Proctor (Elizabeth Proctor’s husband), who drank the chicken blood charm to kill Elizabeth. The entire
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A person’s beliefs and character can change dramatically over a course of time. Even if someone believes so strongly in something, with time and realization, that person might have a change of heart and radically alter their way of thinking. Being part of a shameful situation can make a person become fully aware of the kind of person they are and prompt them to reform themselves. In The Crucible, the Reverend Hale is depicted as an honorable man caught up in a dishonorable situation. A character
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The preservation of his own name is more important to him than protecting the lives of the innocent. When Mary tries to confess the truth he says firmly, “You will confess yourself or you will hang! Do you know who I am? I say you will hang if you do not open with me!” (Miller 1313). Mary Warren was attempting to do the right thing and not disobey Proctor, but also not make Abigail want go against her. All Danforth could do was threaten her to protect
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