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Salem Witch Trials Elizabeth Proctor
1,036 words
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is based
on the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. The
Crucible deals with a community, which everybody
lived in a normal society and everybody attended
church. However, one night, a group of girls were
caught dancing in the woods. Some people accuse
them for doing witchcraft. Therefore, they lied to
protect not just themselves but the reputation of
their families. They claimed that the devil took
them over and influenced them to dance. One of the
main g...
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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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Salem Witchcraft Trials Elizabeth Proctor
1,027 words
The play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller,
was about the Salem witchcraft trials that killed
many Puritans in Massachusetts. In this play,
Miller shows the reader that the Puritans, as a
whole were not as godly as they were portrayed.
Miller also shows how mass hysteria can be sparked
by almost anything. The play takes place in Salem,
Massachusetts in 1692. Reverend Parties daughter,
Betty, falls sick and for some reason the
townspeople suspect witchery. Taking advantage of
this situation,...
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Salem Witch Trials Witch Hunt
1,711 words
Historical Overview and Brief Analysis Amidst
millenniums of debate, argument, and conflict
concerning racial prejudges and those issues which
surround their implementation, there has
consistently existed a certain historical
prejudice regarding various stereotypical ideas
for those things which people can not understand
or explain logically. While more contemporary
examples of such circumstances include concepts
such as McCarthyism, it is generally accepted that
the most classic example of all ...
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Betty Parris Reverend Hale
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Why did Miller Change events in The Crucible The
Crucible is a book written by Arthur Miller in the
1950 s and is about the Salem Witch Trials.
Although there were many differences between The
Crucible and the actual witch trials Miller had
good reason for making the changes for the book.
Some of the things Miller changed to get the
reader to side with the people on trial. Abigail
Williams and John Proctors ages were changed.
Abigail Williams age to 17 even though the real
girl was only 11, but ...
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Hundred Years Ago Today World
1,476 words
It had been a few years since I had last attended
to play. I had just seen the movie version of The
Crucible and was incredibly excited about getting
a chance to watch a theatrical presentation of it.
When I first heard that I'd get the chance to see
it I was very excited that I could hardly wait. I
must say, however, it was well worth the wait.
Everything and everybody inside the auditorium was
much more professional than I had assumed. I
figured that this play would be nothing more than
colleg...
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Characters In The Play Reverend Hale
596 words
The Crucible deals with witch trials in Salem,
Massachusetts which shows utter chaos and hysteria
in the town. Many were accused of witchcraft and
died because of lies. Elizabeth Proctor was one of
many who were accused. She was accused by Abigail
Williams, the person whom Elizabeth fired for
cheating with her husband, John Proctor. John was
a well respected farmer in Salem, who was outraged
when Elizabeth was arrested for accusations of
using witchcraft. John and Elizabeth were
approached by Re...
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Finding Purpose In Arthur Miller The Crucible
676 words
The Crucible is a book that conveys a very ugly
part of American history. The author, Arthur
Miller, uses a play format to educate his audience
about a very confusing event that took place in
Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. In 1692 a tightly
wound New England community broke into a rash of
scandals and rumors having to do with witchcraft
and devil worship. Miller uses actual occurrences,
names, and dates in the story, which makes the
book a semi- reliable source of information about
the event. Mil...
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Puritanism And The Salem Witch Trials
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Puritanism refers to the movement of reform, which
occurred within the Church of England. It began at
the time of the Elizabethan settlement of 1559 and
ended at the end of the Rump Parliament with the
ascension of Charles II to the British throne in
1660. The American Puritans clearly understood
that God's word applies to all of life. Their
exemplary lives and faith, contrary to popular
myths, are a highpoint of Christian thinking.
Puritan legal history specifies some of their
loyalties and com...
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Giles Corey Sarah Osborne
945 words
There is a hint of winter in the air. Dead leaves
cover the ground. The wind whistles through bare
tree branches. The moon shines with an unnatural
brightness amid dark clouds. Soon it will be
Halloween -- the annual holiday when sidewalks and
streets fill with small (and not so small)
goblins, ghosts, and witches. Witches are often
figures of fantasy and imagination today. But
there was a time in this country's history when
witches and their craft were seen as real threats
to society. That time...
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Save His Wife Mary Warren
899 words
In Arthur Millers play The Crucible, the small twn
f Salem is engulfed in hysteria due t the
accusations f children that many f the townspeople
part in witchcraft. The bk des nt incorporate many
characters; the plt f the story elves and nly a
few people. In this essay I will discuss the tw f
them, which I think play the crucial rle in the we
story. ne f the accused in the witchcraft people
is Jan Prctr, a strong, steadfast farmer. Prctr is
the tragic her f the story. Even though he tries t
becom...
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2 The Crucible By Arthur Miller
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2. 2. The Crucible by Arthur Miller I know how you
clutched my back behind your house and sweated
like a stallion whenever I come near! Or did I
dream that? Its she put me out, you cannot pretend
it were you. I saw your face when she put me out,
and you loved me then and you do now! Abigail
Exposition of the Crucible The Crucible takes
place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Around that
time, many witch hunts took place and many
innocent people were killed. In the exposition,
before John Proctor ...
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Hundred Years Ago Todays World
1,476 words
It had been a few years since I had last attended
to play. I had just seen the movie version of The
Crucible and was incredibly excited about getting
a chance to watch a theatrical presentation of it.
When I first heard that Id get the chance to see
it I was very excited that I could hardly wait. I
must say, however, it was well worth the wait.
Everything and everybody inside the auditorium was
much more professional than I had assumed. I
figured that this play would be nothing more than
college...
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Find Out That Abigail Witchcraft
328 words
The Crucible The Crucible takes place in Salem,
Massachusetts in 1692. It begins with a sense of
witchcraft in the air, when we find out that
Reverend Parris (the town minister) and the town
are concerned about Betty, Parris daughter, who
has fallen a victim of witchcraft. We find out
that Betty, her cousin Abigail, Tituba, a slave,
and other girls in the town had been cavorting and
practicing witchcraft, naked in the woods, the
night before. Since this occurred, Betty had been
in a coma-like tr...
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Scientific Revolution Human Beings
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The first part of this essay will outline the main
arguments of the feminist ecologists and deal with
the concept of Ecofeminism. The second part will
sketch the main arguments of Rosemary Radford
Reuther book, Gaia and God. The final part of this
essay will analyze: Starhawk's The Spiral Dance,
Witchcraft as Goddess Religion, The Homeric Hymn
to Demeter, and the Descent of Inanna and examine
the pros and cons of the position that a return to
goddess worship would save our planet. Part One
Ecofe...
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Carbon Dioxide Mother Earth
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PAGANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Witchcraft is the new
religion for the new world. Sparked by the
feminist movement and environmental concern of the
1970 s, witchcraft is the largest growing religion
in the world. One belief that unites all followers
of witchcraft is that the Earth is sacred and all
life is interconnected. The natural world is the
embodiment of divinity, imminent as well as
transcendent (COG). Rituals follow the natural
rhythms and cycles of the Universe. All witches
practice environ...
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Witchcraft Trials Witch Trials
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ProfessorWitchtrials Galore Ben Hahn Professor
Eric History 364 November 13, 1997 Witchcraft
Trials Galore The three witchcraft trials I found
most interesting were the persecutions in
Scotland, the persecutions in Trier, and the
persecutions in Bamberg. All three offered the
best explanation for my final conclusion in
comparing a group of witch trials. The period in
which the persecutions of Trier took place was
from 1581 - 1593. This was a long chain of
persecutions that included even the lead...
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Accused Of Witchcraft Play The Crucible
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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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Witch Hunts Accused Witches
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In the winter of 1692, a wave of witch hysteria
surrounded the settlement of Salem Village in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. The accusations began
with two little girls who were acting strangely.
There are many underlying factors to why these
thoughts of witchcraft started coming about. These
issues were going on before that winter of 1692.
The winter of 1692 was the onset of the hysterics
behind the witchcraft trials. To understand the
reasons behind the hysteria, you have to know a
little about...
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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...
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