Preserving one’s reputation is a prevalent theme in The Crucible. Several of the characters are concerned about their reputations. Do you think a good name is more important than the truth? I think that the truth is more important because honesty is, im my opinion, the best quality. If you lie just to save your reputation, people may find out and then you would have a reputation for being a liar. If you tell the truth and people know that it is the truth, then you will have a reputation for being
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in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, whose actions and inactions greatly impact the lives of the other characters. In Act I, Reverend Hale appears and acts very haughtily. He believes he knows everything about witches and that he is the savior of Salem. For instance, when he says, “Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated… Here are all your familiar spirits - your incubi and succubi… Have no fear now - we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his
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never catch it by running after it, you must stand still…”(Miller 22). Through her quote she hints at how through her values she believes no devil touched this kid. While no one believed her she stuck to her value of god and that the devil is not in Salem.
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Plays and novels these days constantly have movie remakes. The Crucible by Arthur Miller had a film produced for it in 1996 which was forty-four years after the play was written. The film itself is extremely similar to the play besides the fact that minor changes occurred. Between the film and the play, there are slight differences made by the screenwriters and the playwright himself. For example in the play, it states that John Proctor “goes directly to her and grabs her by the cloak…” John Proctor
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individuals such as medical practitioners, but in court will not be held to be legitimate unless the Holy Tribunal gives the same label that the doctors labeled the accused. Jaffary points out that there were few occasions upon which inquisitors dismissed trials because they agreed with witnesses’ assessments of the defendant’s illness or insanity. One example that Jaffary gives is that of Juan Luis Torres. He was accused of being an iluso but it was dismissed that he was an iluso because the inquisitors
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In the play “The Crucible” many of the characters underwent many emotional and moral changes. Some were affected by the witch trials more than others, such as the accused underwent many moral challenges as did the many loved ones of the accused. Out of all the characters many will agree John Proctor overcame many hardships and faced a lot of trials that tested him as a person and a puritan. In the beginning of the play John Proctor is introduced to the audience, he seems like a very independent
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Before the 1920s woman usually worked on farms with their parents, then came the 1920s and it brought many changes for young women in the United States, they stated to decide they want to be dancers and singers and some even get involved with mafia gangs. As in the play "Thoroughly Modern Millie", millions of young women left the safety and security of rural, small town life and went to live an independent life in the big city. The flapper culture is the best example of the type of life that many
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Abigail wanted to kill the wife of the man she loves. However, things didn’t play out the way Abigail intended do to the reason she was accused of being a witch, but she learn how to use that to her advantage by accusing every one of being a witch and being seen with Lucifer. When she came up with that idea she accused John Procter’s wife of being a witch. Abigail believed that when the wife of John Procter is died the love of her love of her life well re-marry her “She thinks to dance
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“Circe, how can you ask for tenderness, you have turned my comrade into swine and now, insidiously, try to blind me” (387-389). In this quote is another one of Odysseus infidelities. Circe who is a goddess and a witch, Turns Odysseus men into pigs. Also, she wants Odysseus to have sex with her. Odysseus agree to have sex with her, only if she vows to not use any magic on him, and Circe eventually turns his men back into humans. Also, he known that this is an another obstacle he has to overcome if
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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne explored the superficially-Christian ideals of Boston's Puritan society by revealing the sins committed by many individuals in the community. In this novel, Hester Prynne was an obvious sinner, forced by the community to forever harbor the scarlet letter on her chest as a reminder of her sin. Roger Chillingworth could also be considered a sinner for lying about his identity and mentally torturing his patient, Arthur Dimmesdale. However, one would be surprised
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