; and if you believe I may do only good work in the world, and yet to be secretly bound to Satan, then I must tell you sir, I cannot believe it. This quote shows that Elizabeth Proctor is a good and caring woman. She is secretly worried about her trial during the crucible, and about her husband John Proctor. Elizabeth and I have many similar traits. We are both caring, loyal, and even worried sometimes. Being kind and caring are good traits that Elizabeth and I share. One way that Elizabeth is
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all more than just a little white lie. In 1953, Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible because of his experiences during the Red Scare of which many people were being accused of being communist. The Crucible is about trials for people who allegedly practiced witchcraft in the late 1600’s in Salem, Massachusetts. Herbert Lawrence Block was a cartoonist during the Red Scare period and was also impacted by the Red Scare. His cartoons had a similar theme as The Crucible. The Red Scare affected many people
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helpless husband watched” (Tonny Onyulo). Actual witch hunts have not been practiced for centuries all over the world, but in recent years Africa as begun to experience various forms of witch hunts in its society. In order to explain people’s deaths, illness, bad luck, and hardships, witches have become the escape goat. Many women are being beaten, hung, and burned alive just for being accused of witchcraft whether it is proven or not. Moreover, witch hunts have more than a single motive: both personal
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John Proctor’s Outstanding Personality The Crucible was a play in 1962 about the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. The trials began after girls started accusing many people of witchcraft. John Proctor and Abigail Williams which is the leader of the girls had an affair. Abigail wanted John’s wife dead so she could be with him, and she would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. John Proctor's honest, selfless, and vulnerable ways are revealed in The Crucible. John Proctor is an honest man
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Personal Ethnic and Cultural Background Axia College, University of Phoenix Being primarily of English and German decent, it was not easy to decide which ethnicity to write about. I decided that I was interested in learning more about the English because they were some of the first people to colonize the country, and have played such a big role in the history of the country. I also, as I will attempt to explain later, feel like I may identify better with their culture. The English initially
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most effective literary works to address the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Hawthorne is also remembered for helping to establish the short story as a respected form of literature and as a proponent of instilling morals and lessons into his writing. Source: Short Stories for Students, ©2012 Gale Cengage. "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne chronicles the disturbing dream of a young Puritan man in Salem. In the dream, Goodman Brown comes face to face with evil and is forced
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that your search for justice may be hard to fined or never found at all. Millers purpose is to warn that in order to find justice you can’t become blinded by others. In the play Reverend John Hale believes that he was bringing light to the town of Salem Massachusetts. However he soon realizes that that what he thought was justice was actually injustice. Overall Hale’s search for justice is minorly successful at the end of that tragedy but it was too late. Hale is meant to exemplify to the reader
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ourselves can be driven by the most primitive emotion and put it into action if the influence is tenacious enough. We are affected everyday and experience an abundance of almost everything we come into contact with. In The Crucible, we recognize that Salem was swarming with superstition, leading characters such as John Proctor to feel persistent emotions from the effects of Salem’s unfounded fear. The most populous feelings appear throughout the story were guilt, anger and love. The base and foundation
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that dramatizes the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the play, the town of Salem falls into hysteria after Reverend Parris finds his daughter, niece, and their friends dancing in the woods with his slave Tituba. The young girls claim they have been bewitched by people in the town to avoid punishment, although, the punishment then comes for the accused regardless of their innocence. A vital character to the
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“ My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me!” The play “The Crucible” the things place in Salem Massachusetts in 1692, the times of the Salem witch trials. The story starts with a group of girls that goes dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. After this rumors of witchcraft fill the town. Then the wicked Abigail starts claiming she saw townsfolk consorting with the devil. One of the people she denounces Elizabeth Proctor
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