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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the book, all the events that led up to the execution of many innocent lives and led up to the breaking apart of the theocracy that the town was used to contribute to make a difficult time or situation, which is a crucible. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts Man’s word is worthless against harsh judgment. With the false evidence and the corrupting lies, there will be only one who will try to fight for freedom and break free from the Law’s powerful hold. First and Foremost, Reverend Samuel
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having some flaws. In Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible, the town of Salem is faced with a “witch problem”. Twelve girls claim they can see witches and accuse innocent women of witchcraft. This leads to many innocent people being put in jail, some of them put to death. The only way you could get out of being accused of witchcraft is if you confess. The confessing is what kept the trials going because then the people of Salem continue to think witchcraft exists. John Proctor, one of the main characters
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“The Ultimate Value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival” (Aristotle). The Crucible was about the Salem witch trials which took place in 1692. Several young girls Cried that they were afflicted by witchcraft/ The devil, starting with Reverend Paris's daughter Betty. The afflicted girls accused people in the town of witchcraft, often choosing victims that were too poor to defend themselves or, wealth to take their land, livestock. Arthur miller
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong.”- Voltaire Authority For as long as authority has existed, there have been those who have challenged it, rebelled against it, and even refused to acknowledge it. Institutions that hold great power-the government, the church, public opinion—have dictated what is right and wrong to those under their control. However, when an individual’s personal convictions come into conflict with authority’s established
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Influence is unavoidable; our reality is not of our own making Like a game, reality is dependent on a set of mutual laws and expectations rule-makers agree upon and there are penalties for those who go against the expectations of the majority such as the loss of a “life” or “game over”. Some have a lot invested in the game- wealth, time, effort, goals. Others see it for what it is; a projection of our imagination with a subjective sense of meaning. This game of life is far more complex than
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difference in how the towns treat the people who sin. The two books have similarities and differences, which I will discuss in this paper. The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter are both set in a Puritan community in early America. “...the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together…” (Miller). “...at a later period in the history of New england, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good
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sorrow, exhausted, and more direct than he ever was.” (pp 128-129, Act 4) Hale’s crucible is whether or not to follow the public and continue forcing people to confess witchcraft or to make known the madness of these hunts, since he knows these witch hunts and trials are irrational. This exemplifies Hale’s personal and gradual movement to candor rather than the accusation of more innocent individuals. Furthermore, it shows Hale’s first steps from the break from conformity. In this essay, I will explain
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