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Abigail Williams John Proctor
693 words
John 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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Good Versus Evil Battle Between Good
1,254 words
According to the Websters Dictionary, a crucible
is a vessel in which metal is heated to a high
temperature and melted for the purposes of
casting. It can also be referred to a situation in
which a person has to make a decision that can be
critical to his morals and principles. There are
many interpretations of the word crucible as there
is for the theme of Arthur Millers, The Crucible.
Closely related to the word crucifixion, The
Crucible is about a man put in a crucible
situation, who is force...
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Witch Trials Mary Warren
510 words
Set in 1692, The Crucible is a novel depicting the
lives and conflicts of various Puritan characters
during the Salem witch trials. Mary Warren, in
particular, is a young servant girl whose ethics
are challenged when she becomes afflicted with
terror and intimidation. The essential conflict
Mary Warren encounters is admitting to the court
that the trials are simply pretend. Internally,
she realizes that the accusations are mortally
wrong and cruel. The trial is based on hatred and
revenge, resul...
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Reverend Hale Witch Trials
1,153 words
In Arthur Millers famous play, The Crucible, he
tells the story of the notorious Salem witch
trials. During this mayhem and tragic turmoil, the
people of this small Salem village are faced with
false accusations, lies, and sins conducted either
for the survival of their own lives or harm
others. In a crisis such as this were all the
evidence is invisible and the only witness to
testify is the victim, all that the people are
left with is their own principles, morals and
faith. Unfortunately some ...
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Salem Witch Hunts Proctor And Abigail
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The play, The Crucible, illustrates how people
react to mass hysteria created by a person or
group of people, as people did during the McCarthy
hearings of the 1950 s and the Salem witch hunts
of 1962. Many Americans were wrongly accused of
being Communist sympathizers. The activities of
the House of Un-American Activities Committee
began to be linked with the witchcraft trials that
had taken place in the town of Salem. This
provided Miller with the catalyst to write The
Crucible. Without the kn...
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Reverend Hale Mary Warren
921 words
The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play
that takes place in the sixteen nineties during
the famous but tragic witch trails. The entire
community is in pandemonium yet certain characters
are also fighting internal conflicts of their own.
Miller uses three characters that manifest this
internal battle ever so clearly. Such as Mary
Warren whose whole personality turns upside down,
John Proctor who contemplates between the
importance of his family and his own name, and
Reverend Hale who batt...
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Save His Wife Order To Save
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The Crucible Arthur Miller is one of the most
famous American playwrights. Despite the fact that
Death of a Salesman is considered the work that
made him world-famous, The Crucible was
undeservedly forgotten by the public. The Crucible
was designed as a historic drama based on
historically refracted reflections of the real
events, - the witch trial of 1692 in Salem, one of
the most fanatical centers of Puritanism, - that
is whimsically connected with McCarthy period. The
spectrum of emotional to...
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Make A Decision Reverend Hale
1,134 words
The Crucible by Arthur Miller The three characters
to be analyzed in this report are John Proctor,
Abigail and Reverend Hale. In The Crucible, John
Proctor changes from a timid character held in
bondage by his sin to a strong, righteous man who
will die for the truth. This drastic change in his
character is the basis of his significance to the
outcome of the play. The unyielding faith of
Proctors wife, the influence of the people who
share his beliefs and his triumph over an inner
struggle help ...
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Salem Witch Trials Accused Witches
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the madness of
the Salem Witch Trials is explored in great
detail. There are many theories as to why the
witch trials came about, the most popular of which
the girls suppressed childhood. However, there
were other factors as well, such as Abigail
Williams affair with John Proctor, the secret
grudges that neighbors held against each other,
and the physical and economic differences between
the citizens of Salem Village. From a historical
viewpoint, it is known tha...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Beginning Of The Play
358 words
John Proctor was the main character in the play
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Will the
truth set you free? In Proctor? s case of choosing
truth over deceit he was redeemed and set free
spiritually. The setting of the play was in the
1690? s during The Salem Witch Trials. During the
beginning of the play Proctor was a man filled
with hypocrisy but, he changed by the completion
of the play into a commendable man. In the
beginning of the play, John Proctor was a
hypocritical man. By examp...
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End Of The Drama Rebecca Nurse
365 words
In literature as in life people often suffer
severe tests of character. Sometimes they must
defend their beliefs in the face of great
opposition. In the drama The Crucible, by Arthur
Miller, two characters showed this quality. John
Proctor and Rebecca Nurse both suffered severe
tests of character. In my opinion these characters
are perfect examples of these type of people.
Rebecca Nurse is a good example of a character
that got tested. She sacrificed her life for her
morals. When asked by Revere...
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Witch Trials John Proctor
560 words
The Crucible Integrity Essay Honesty,
determination, and integrity are all
characteristics John Proctor displayed as he
fought for his own life and many other innocent
people during the Salem witch trials in the play
The Crucible. His efforts were needed greatly at
the time and his integrity played a major role in
calming the chaotic situation of false
accusations. His courage to fight for what he knew
to be true ended up with his death, but he died a
noble and honest man; a man left with his in...
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Abigail Williams John Proctor
243 words
Notes for an essay on human weaknesses that are
prominent in the Crucible Lying (pg. 10 Abigail
Williams) Abigail lied to Parris when he asked if
she had slept with Proctor. (pg. 17 All the Girls)
They all agreed to say that they had only danced,
nothing more. (pg. 109 Elizabeth Proctor) Goody
Proctor lied in court and said that her husband
had not committed lechery. Greed (pg. 29 Thomas
Putnam) Mr. Putnam got angry with John Proctor for
taking wood from what he thought was his own land
when rea...
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John Proctor Innocent People
952 words
The title of Author Miller s play the Crucible
fits the story in many ways. There are many
definitions for a crucible but mainly two of them
fit the story most. The first definition of a
crucible is a melting pot that chemist and
alchemists used to mix metals, but in order to
melt the metals down they had to heat the metals
up to a certain point for them to turn to liquids.
So in fact a crucible is a container that can
withstand high temperatures. In this way the
characters of the play have to w...
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Abigail Williams Arthur Miller
473 words
It is a play with tremendous feelings with many
inside twists hidden in the archives of the true
story. It is a play with emotional feelings,
feelings of anger, hate, evil, manipulation, good,
and pureness. It is the The Crucible. In the play,
Arthur Miller develops the idea that powerfully
held beliefs direct people? s behaviour, Abigail
Williams who accuses others to escape from
punishment, Mary Warren who chooses to lie to keep
herself out of trouble, and John Proctor who
chooses to sacrifice...
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Salem Witch Trials People Of The Village
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I have given you my soul; leave me my name! Do you
consider John Procter to be heroic? John Proctor
was a farmer in Salem, Massachusetts in America
and, because he had a lot of land, he was a well
respected in the village. He was married to
Elizabeth and they had three children together. He
was involved in the 1692 Salem witch trials, which
provoked mass hysteria amongst the people of the
village. At the end of the trials, twenty people
innocent of witchcraft were hanged. John Proctor
was an ord...
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Oedipus Rex John Proctor
1,933 words
While the two books we are about to discuss here
are both similar in several aspects such as fate
and human error they are also very different in
that the climate of both pieces differs greatly in
that of the time period in which they are set and
the situations in which both men are placed in.
The ways in which they are heroic as such is also
different; as leaders, as men or even as just
people who existed and fought to overcome a
particular situation in their own way or to the
best of their cap...
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American Activities Committee World War Ii
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McCarthyism: The Real Witch Hunts Some people
nowadays may consider the government, or some of
its agencies, corrupt. Todays scenario is nothing
compared to that of McCarthyism in the 1950 s.
During McCarthyism, the nation was being torn
apart. Their loyalty to one another was crushed
and common human decency went down the drain
(Miller, Crucible xiv). These Communist hunts were
eerily similar to the witch hunts and trials of
Salem Massachusetts in the 1600 s. The Puritans
have a strict religion...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Play The Crucible
1,121 words
I 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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End Of Act Town Of Salem
922 words
Revenges Evil Ways Arthur Miller uses the theme of
revenge many times in the play The Crucible. The
hysteria in Salem in 1692 was escalated by the
element of revenge. The role of revenge
intensified the feelings of the Salem people.
Abigail Williams was an example of someone out for
revenge in 1692. The Putnam's were another example
of people setting out to settle vendettas of their
own during the witch trials. Reverend Parris was
another individual ready to settle is own feuds.
Abigail Williams...
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