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Salem Witch Trials World War Ii
1,901 wordsIn The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There is more to the play than the witch trials, though. The Crucible was composed during a time when a similar hysteria was sweeping through America. A virtually unkown senator by the name of Joseph McCarthy was propelled into infamy when while at a speaking engagement at thee Republican Womens Club of Wheeling, West Virginia he charged 205 persons in the U. S. State Department of being...
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Reverend Parris Mccarthy Hearings
1,505 wordsIn the 17 th century a group of Puritans from England immigrated to America to escape persecution for their religious beliefs. The white settlers arrived in New England in 1620, and Salem, Massachusetts had been in existence for about forty years by 1692. Salem developed as a theocracy. This was based on the coexistence of religious prayer and hard work. Entertainment, such as dancing, or any enjoyment at all was perceived as a sin. The isolation of the Puritan society created a rigid social sys...
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End Of The Play Leaves The Audience
1,512 words... PROCTOR '... Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. ' HALE You have said that twice, sir' PROCTOR (lost): ye. (he if flailing for it. ) ELIZABETH (delicately); Adultery, John. The stage directions show the difficulty this couple have had in discussing this topic. It seems fortunate for Proctor that he does not recall this last commandment on his own. This could suggest that he is willing to put his affair behind him. When Elizabeth intervenes see merely delicately lets him know what...
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Elizabeth Proctor Arthur Miller
751 wordsCircumstances cause adaptation. Drastic circumstances cause drastic adaptation. The Salem witch trials of 1692 were definitely drastic circumstances. Society's hysteria, greed, and vengeance led to accusations that changed many lives, even changed some of those lives to death. Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend John Hale, and John Proctor were three characters that were altered during Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Elizabeth Proctor is a kind, intelligent, almost joyless woman that has evidently been il...
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Salem Witch Trials Giles Corey
1,366 wordsThe Salem Witch Trials all began on January 20, 1692, with nine-year-old Elizabeth Betty Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams, daughter and niece of the village reverend Samuel Parris, beginning to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance-like states and mysterious spells. Within a short period of time, several other Salem girls began to illustrate similar behavior; physicians resolved that the girls were under the control of Satan. Reverend Par...
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Themes From John Proctor The Crucible
436 wordsHoughton Mifflin's Collegiate Dictionary defines a crucible as a sever test. When Author Miller wrote The Crucible, he inflicted many of his characters with harsh crucibles. John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Martha Corey all went through crucible s in their lives and throughout the play. John Proctor endured one of the most difficult crucibles of all the characters. When his wife was arrested he was faced with the harsh test. If Proctor goes to court and testifies for his wifes innocence and ...
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John And Elizabeth Elizabeth Proctor
975 wordsThroughout literature, one comes across characters that are not as appealing because they are promiscuous. John Proctor, from The Crucible, Harpo and Albert, from The Color Purple, are all examples of men who commit adultery. Their respective wives, Elizabeth, Sofia, and Celie, all have different reactions to their infidelity. The three women have completely different ways of handling the situation. In The Crucible, John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor had hired Abigail as a helper at their house....
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Told The Truth Rebecca Nurse
743 wordsThere is many meaningful personal connection that was made to a key aspects of the play. For example the people that were accused and / or convicted of something based on little or no evidence. This incident happened very often in this play. The characters that were involved were John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail, Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Salem girls (including Rebecca, Ruth, and others), and the Putnam family are only a few who were charged or charging others for ridiculous things. Thr...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Salem Witch
1,524 wordsThe Crucible: Characters Cheap Patel The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller that was first produced in 1953, is based on the true story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Miller wrote the play to parallel the situations in the mid-twentieth century of Alger Hiss, Owen Lati more, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Senator McCarthy, if only suggestively. (Warshow 116) Some characters in the play have specific agendas carried out by their accusations, and the fact that the play is based on historical t...
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Affair With Abigail John Proctor
1,047 wordsThe primary dramatic focus in the play The Crucible is the moral struggle of its protagonist, John Proctor. Certain characteristics of John Proctor s character and also the environment of the Puritanical Salem alleviated this problem for him. The main issues running through out the play are a series of dilemmas that John Proctor faces. The first and foremost of these is his guilt over his adulterous affair with Abigail Williams, the second his hesitation to testify against Abigail to bring out t...
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Salem Witch Trials Save His Life
1,337 wordsMiller captured the paranoia and hatred of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and made a controversial reference to his own society s Witch Hunts during McCarthyism in the 1950 s. In only 146 pages, Miller told us the stories of the lives of John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams and others during the 1692 Witch Trials in Salem Massachusetts. The quiet Salem community was living happily in their own sleepy world, until several local girls fell ill as their sickness was blamed on witchcraft. ...
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End Of Act Ii Mary Warren
608 wordsMary Warren is an important character in Arthur Miller? s play, THE CRUCIBLE. Much of the action in Act III revolves around Mary? s testimony in court. She is a kind and basically honest girl who tries to do the right thing, saving her friends from harm. However, throughout Acts I and II, Mary is a follower who allows Abigail Williams to negatively influence her good judgment. To make matters worse, Mary is terrified of Abigail? s threats. Because of her weak will, the reader isn? t certain if M...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Play The Crucible
1,121 wordsI never sold myself! I m a good girl! I m a proper girl! said Abigail Williams in The Crucible (p. 40) That and, They must not blackening my name more than anything are what we hear the most when it comes the time to save your name. People with excessive pride would risk to lose everything to make sure nobody would spoil their name. They would even accused their neighbours of the worse crime so they would still be part of the good side of the society. In the drama play The Crucible, this is basi...
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