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End Of The Play John Proctor
397 wordsIn the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is introduced as a main character early in the plot. He comes out as a rebellious man in a sense, and right away we learn of his affair with Abigail. By the end of the play Proctor is changing his ground and becoming a more responsible individual and not lowering himself to Abigail's standards once again. In the beginning of the book when his affair is revealed, he could strike the reader as a weak and failing individual. One would think t...
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Arthur Miller Wife Elizabeth
590 wordsIn the play "The Crucible, " Millers picture, of the Salem witch hunts of 1692 may fitly be examined as a work of dramatic art, as a product of the author, and as a social document. A major character that enabled the dramatic art to come into play is John Proctor himself who was a leading character and Arthur Miller built up to the big scenes seen throughout the play where the characters are made to be seen as more appealing. The characterization shown with John Proctor was not only detailed but...
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Salem Witch Trials Group Of People
1,032 wordsIn The Crucible, there was a lot of senseless behavior. The purpose of The Crucible is to educate the reader on the insanity that can form in a group of people who think they are judging fairly upon a group of people. Judge Hawthorne believes what he is told by certain people is the truth even if little evidence is to be shown. The young girls with Abigail convince Hawthorne of others being witches so that Abigail can get what she wants, John Proctor, also so that Abigail does not blackmail the ...
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Elizabeth Proctor Abigail Williams
674 wordsThe Crucible reveals that people's private emotions and desires often have consequences far beyond their own lives. Three characters that share that quality and who contributed greatly to the outbreak of hysteria in Salem are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Proctor. All these characters, in one way or another brought eminence suspicion and / or emotional relief into the town of Salem. Proctor had to deal with both sides of Salem's controversy. In most eyes Proctor was a good man, b...
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Integrity In Both The Scarlet Letter And Crucible
607 wordsIntegrity, a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. Merriam Webster dictionary. A character with integrity is willing to sacrifice anything of substantial value, even their life or reputation, to uphold the moral code they live by. It takes someone of strong character to possess integrity, for the temptation to give in is every so often astronomically appealing. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a character of true integrity who upholds her ...
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American In Arthur Miller The Crucible
877 wordsArthur Miller's play, The Crucible, is based upon actual events in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The Crucible highlights the tendency in America to witch-hunt and how some people used this leverage to gain power for them without telling the truth. To be accused in Salem you were sent to trial, which ultimately meant a sentence. Those people who decided to live by confessing to witchery were outcaste from society; Arthur Miller based this situation on the communist hatred spreading over American ...
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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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Save His Life Order To Save
628 wordsAnother important work Miller wrote, The Crucible, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, during the 17 th century. It is a time when jealousy and suspicion poisoned the thinking of an entire town. Neighbor turned against neighbor when events happened that could not be explained. Accusations turned into a mad hunt for witches who did not exist. One of the main characters of the play is John Proctor, a well-respected man with a good name in the town. As the play develops, John Proctor's moral dilem...
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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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Abigail Williams John Proctor
243 wordsNotes 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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End Of The Play John Proctor
401 wordsIn the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is introduced as a main character early in the plot. He comes out as a rebellious man in a sense, and right away we learn of his affair with Abigail. By the end of the play Proctor is changing his ground and becoming a more responsible individual and not lowering himself to Abigail? s standards once again. In the beginning of the book when his affair is revealed, he could strike the reader as a weak and failing individual. One would think ...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Salem Witch
1,436 wordsThe The Crucible The Crucible 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. Some characters in the play have specific agendas carried out by their accusations, and the fact that the play is based on historical truth makes it even more intriguing. The characters in this play are simple, common people. The accused are charged and conv...
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Men And Women Mary Warren
1,088 wordsFor the scene in which John Proctor persuaded Mary Warren to go to the court and confess that the girls are lying, I have chosen to set it in Proctors fields. There he will be working when Mary Warren approaches him. There she will say that shes sorry about Elizabeth and tries to comfort John. John is to appear almost overwhelmed by the previous nights events. Mary then slips up by saying " If there is anything I can do? . " and John jumps and asks her to go to the court and confess. T...
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Salem Witch Trials Arthur Miller
1,060 words" John Proctors Struggles" In the drama, " The Crucible" the reader witnesses several characters that undergo different struggles. John Proctor goes through three different struggles in the drama. The three struggles that John goes through are; the stopping of his affair with Abigail, does john go to court, and johns decision to live and tell the truth or to die and to tell a lie. The first struggles that the reader sees is John trying to stop his love affair with Abigail. Jo...
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Millers The Crucible Reverend Parris
613 wordsI got a 96 on this one Character Commentary and Personality In Arthur Millers The Crucible several characters are described in the commentary of Act I of the play. Three of the major characters of the play are described in the commentary of the first act. John Proctor, Thomas Putnam, and Reverend Parris are described in the first act and their characters that are developed from the commentary are developed by the characters actions in later parts of the play. John Proctor was described in the co...
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Abigail Williams Scarlet Letter
409 wordsLove is Revenge 2 REVENGE Love is a strange thing. It is strong, free, and blind. With it come many pleasures. However, what often occurs after love is the antithesis of love. Once love is lost in a person, a barrage of feelings inhabits that person. One of the darkest, strongest, most eminent emotions that occur in a person is the feeling of revenge. The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter are both classic and dated stories that are mostly based upon love, lost love, and revenge. In The Scarlet Let...
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Giles Corey Mary Warren
671 wordsThe Effects of Revenge The Crucible makes the reader suspicious, confused and angry. Revenge, the key source to this confusing suspicion, develops through the main characters: Abigail Williams accuses Elizabeth Proctor and Mary Warren of witchery due to jealousy, Giles Corey gets pressed for his land out of covetousness, and Mr. Parris believes only those who agree with his greedy ways. Having known John Proctor it becomes evident that Abigail, a 17 -year-old orphan, is extremely jealous of John...
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John Proctor Doesn T
595 wordsThe Crucible, a container that resists hear or the hollow at the bottom of an ore furnace. However its connotations include melting pot, in the symbolic sense, and the bearing of a cross. Elizabeth, John Proctor? s wife; a cold, childless woman who is an upright character who cannot forgive her husband? s adultery until just before he died: she is accused of being a witch. Reverend Hale, a self-proclaimed expert on witchcraft; at the play? s end tries to save the accused. John Proctor, a good ma...
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Accusations Of Witchcraft Elizabeth Proctor
798 wordsSometimes two things may seem like they have nothing in common but when analyzed more critically one may find many similarities. A good example of this would be between The Crucible and Sommersby. These two stories may seem like they have nothing in common; one, The Crucible, is about the Salem witch trials, the other, Sommersby, is about a POW returning home after six years. These two stories may appear to be totally different but they do in fact share many similarities. Three of the characters...
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Duke And Dauphin Hester And Dimmesdale
1,446 wordsFinal Prep: Hawthorne, Miller, Clemens, Crane The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne takes place in the seventeenth century, New England colony of Massachusetts. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel. She is an English woman and the wife of Roger Chillingworth. She is tried and condemned for her sin of adultery with Dimmesdale and charged to wear the scarlet letter, A, an indication of adultery, on the bosom of her gown forever. Even though she has a daughter out of wedlock, she refu...
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