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Salem Witch Todays Society
1,007 wordsIn the book, Guy Montag, the main character, begins to question the things around him when he meets a local girl. He quickly feels comfortable with her and they begin to have discussions about mundane things that seem to open up Montag's eyes. Then one day, the girl is gone. In a short few weeks, he had become dependant on the girls company. Once she is gone, he finds himself changed by having known her. When he goes to work on one of the following days, there is a fire alarm. He and the other f...
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Young Goodman Brown Side By Side
1,099 words"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about revealing true evil and the loss of one man's faith. Nathaniel Hawthorne left "Young Goodman Brown" up for many interpretations. After reading the story a couple of times, one thing became clear to me. What I absorbed from this story was that evil exists in everyone, does not matter how good we may think we are. Things aren't always what they seem. I say this because the people who attended the devil's meetings, were the ones who atte...
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Five Minutes Years Earlier
613 wordsThe clock, left in the family house for more than a few generations, announced noon. Noon witch as long as they remembered was used for nothing more than a sit down with a spouse, close neighbor or a passer bye, the coffee hour. Cracking beneath a strongly knitted carpet announced the arrival of a person while knock on the porch door announced the arrival of a neighbor. The strong but pleasant smell of freshly grounded coffee occupied the house in witch the time has stopped ticking some fifty to...
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Made The Decision Discharged Abby Elizabeth
784 wordsA crucible, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Concise Electronic Dictionary, is the state or fact of being tested (as by suffering), which attests to what Elizabeth Proctor is going through exactly. Elizabeth has quite a crucible to struggle through. The infidelity of her husband is a major element in her being. Her struggle includes staying true to both her husband and her God. Another is the persecution by Abigail Warren, a former employee and assistant. Elizabeth also has to suffer through th...
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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
1,254 wordsThe character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. However, the Romantic philosophies of Hawthorne put down the Puritanic beliefs. She is a beautiful, young woman who has sinned, but is forgiven. Hawthorne portray...
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Abigail Williams John Proctor
693 wordsJohn Proctor plays the ultimate hero role in the book The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, because he chooses to protect himself, his friends and his community from ridicule, humiliation and tyranny. John does this by devoting to his beliefs, breaking with the community, and dying with his own self-respect. John Proctor was a farmer in his mid 30 s. He was married to Elizabeth Proctor, a cold, childish but upright woman who first cannot forgive her husbands frailties, they together have three childre...
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Mary And Caleb Mary Chase Mother
576 wordsIn Beyond the Burning Time, Mary Chase has an awful lot to worry about for a young girl. With her mother accused as a witch, and her father dead, Mary and her brother are all alone. She knows that in order to save her mother she is going to have to refuse to yield to the wishes of some people who may not have her best interest at heart. Mary must push her way to her mother, because with all the hysteria going on around her there is no where to turn, and she can trust no one. Ultimately, Mary cha...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Rebecca Nurse
532 wordsA "hideous screech and noise" poured from the open windows of the meetinghouse. Inside, the young accusers who said they had been bewitched by their neighbors twisted their bodies and cried in pain. Frail and weak, Rebecca Nurse, the most unlikely to be in league with the devil, stood to be questioned. From the moment on that cold January day when the specter of a coffin appeared during a childish game, Salem Village convulsed with fear, finger pointing and suspicion, and the normal hierarchy of...
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Betty Lu And Miss Daisy Lu And Miss Daisy Jim
1,207 words... n. It was pretty good. Now Billy Bob had a float that went to extreme measures. He had made a thirty foot beer keg. Thirty luminous feet of tin-foil. He had it down to the a T, it was actually really nice. Jim explained with some excitement. Miss Daisy had a giant car. A this-five foot orange car. The number zero one on the sides and a confederate flag on it. It was sure to be a finalist. Ben Dover had a huge rocket ship. A leng slender body, coned at the top, with two perfectly round gas ta...
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Aleister Crowley In The Occult
1,112 words... ling and women. Exactly how such a man came to be entrusted by Tom Bishop with the care of his nephew is unclear. Aleister would later suppose that Douglas got the job under false pretenses: he was an Oxford graduate, with gentlemanly manners and an impressive accent, who had traveled in Persia for the Bible society Like any Oxford graduate, Douglas probably needed the cash. (Hutchinson, 39) At about this time in his life, Crowley discovered mountaineering, which he became reasonably famous ...
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Caliban Comes To Represent Innocence Of An Audience Play
1,010 words... is audience. He will be free to retire when they have applauded his efforts one last time, once he has indulged their pleasures for the final performance. The magic of the island stage originates from a source that is present as an airy spirit, Ariel. The name Ariel has a Hebrew meaning of lion of God, the messenger. Ariel becomes the allegorical representation of the magic of the theatre, the magic that can exist nowhere other than the stage. Just as a playwright holds jurisdiction over the...
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Goody Proctor Abigail Williams
566 wordsWhats the difference between Abigail Williams and Satin? Very little! Abigail turns life around for many innocent citizens of Salem. She took away their freedom and attacked their emotions. Abigail shows many similar qualities to Satin in The Crucible. She certainly rejects God and does what she wants to do regardless of whom it may hurt. Abigail Williams was a menace to society because she destroyed the calm community of Salem through her destructive, sinful acts. Abigail tries to steal Goody P...
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Daughter Of The Blood Arrows Of The Queen Jaenelle
887 wordsComparing and Contrasting the Fantasy Trilogies Daughter of the Blood and Arrows of the Queen The trilogies Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop and Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey are both stories of young girls who grow up among characters of fantasy to become queens. In Daughter of the Blood, the story of Jaenelle Angellines struggle with extreme magical powers and the curse of being both Queen and Witch is described. It tells of her traumatic past caused by her gifts and also her reco...
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Gender Roles And Macbeth
1,019 words... there is questioning of gender attributes and roles, there is often a level of violence that follows soon after. When Macduff receives word that his wife and young son have been slain, he begins to grieve openly. Malcolm, who had recently made an alliance with Macduff, offhandedly comments that Macduff should handle the situation in a manly way. This is a cynical attack on his character, and questions of his masculinity. Macduff explains to Malcolm that he feels deep sorrow for the death of ...
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Public Opinion Modern Times
642 wordsChanges in society from the American Revolution to modern times have been caused by both public opinion and law. Public opinion changed law as such as in the first reading about the Salem Witchcraft trials. After the trial new laws were made regarding how spectral evidence would not be admitted as evidence towards the conviction of a witch, since it is heresy. Also, states never again executed people for being convicted of witchcraft. Since Americans did not desire to be part of the Great Britai...
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The Crucible And Inherit Wind Injustice
538 wordsBoth Cates, in Inherit the Wind by Lee and Lawrence, and Procter, in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, are both subjected to unjust laws. Both demonstrated that, "if the law is of such a nature that it requires one to be an agent of injustice toward another, then I say break the law, " as stated by Henry David Thoreau. When a law is put into effect that will convict a person who is a free thinker then it is a unjust law. One might as well break it because if no one stands up for the principle then...
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Today World Seek Revenge
641 wordsBoredom and Its Victims in Arthur Miller? s The Crucible When bored, people tend to portray or act differently to either attract attention or change society. The girls in The Crucible are bored of Puritan life and want to do more to get more fun out of Salem life. Boredom led the girls to perform sins that the Puritan society disagrees with entirely. In The Crucible By Arthur Miller, boredom proves to be a catalyst for murder. The girls in Salem wanted more attention and more out of Puritan life...
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End Of The Century Assault Rifles
568 wordsGUN CONTROL Source Summary: Josh Sugermann is the executive director of the Violence Policy Center and the author of NRA: Money, Firepower, and Fear. Mr. Sugermann talks about how the Brady Bill, witch mandates a national waiting period for buying handguns, will not help in gun control in fact it will have a reverse affect on society and give more money and business to the gun manufactures. Mr. Sugermann began in talking about that gun violence is in fact a public health crisis, witch in turn wi...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
1,072 wordsHester Prynne's Development Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. In the town of Boston where the story takes place, this sin is among the worst for the Puritan community. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. But this trial in Hester's life forces her to mature. The character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel. From the beginni...
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Didn T Isn T
927 wordsRacism, sexism, and belief that one way of life is the only way of life are prevalent in every society but should not be tolerated. People being tormented in such a hurtful manner shouldn t have gone through the horror of being treated that way in any day, time or place. In I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, Tituba struggled with having her own belief system, the only parents she knew dying, and struggling with the day to day life of just being a woman in that prominent slavery society that the boo...
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