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Reverend Hale Witch Trials
984 words
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play
that takes place in the sixteen nineties during
the famous, but tragic, Salem witch trials. 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. For
example, Mary Warren, whos whole personality turns
upside down: John Proctor, who contemplates
between the importance of his family and his own
name, and Rever...
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Supreme Court Women Rights
886 words
Abigail Adams was the wife of one president and
wife of another. She was not just a mother and a
wife, she was also very concerned with politics.
Abigail often corresponded with her husband
through letters, as they were often separated. The
most famous of these letters was entitled Remember
the Ladies. In this letter, Abigail advocated
women's rights to her husband. She urged him to
push the removal of legal codes which
discriminated against women, lift laws that denied
women their property righ...
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The Witch Trials Of 1692
1,146 words
During the winter of 1692, in the small village of
Salem, Massachusetts, something terrible happened.
Salem Massachusetts became the center of a
horrible tragedy, which changed the life of many
people. It was a time of fear, because of bad
crops, Indian raids, and diseases. The people of
Salem Village had to blame something, or someone.
The people of Salem Village accused people, and
called them witches. They were accused of all
those terrible things and more. Salem Village was
a small, farming ...
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Internal Conflict John Proctor
745 words
Arthur Millers play, The Crucible, is a great
portrayal of humans and their inner struggles.
This play takes place in the 1690 s in a small
Puritan community based on a rigid social system.
An outbreak of rumors claiming witchcraft
contaminated this small village. This caused
conflict among the people of name and ultimately
resulted in absolute chaos. This play clearly
illustrates the self-battles of three characters.
Reverend Hales battle is initiated by his personal
commitment to God. He is a ...
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Innocent People Procter Ironic
425 words
Arthur Miller uses an abundance of irony in his
play The Crucible. Irony in the crucible is shown
at almost every aspect of the play. The fact that
the puritans are supposed to be good and strong
and spreading the good ways of god is ironic in
itself. In the play it shows the puritans
accusing, blaming and holding grudges against each
other. The puritans should have been going to
church and helping each other but instead of that
they were running around killing each other and
accusing each other...
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Salem Witch Trials Giles Corey
1,366 words
The 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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Personal Integrity Public Reputation Proctor
428 words
In a sense, The Crucible has the structure of a
classical tragedy, with John Proctor as the play's
tragic hero. Honest, upright, and blunt-spoken,
Proctor is a good man, but one with a secret,
fatal flaw. His lust for Abigail Williams led to
their affair (which occurs before the play
begins), and created Abigail's jealousy of his
wife, Elizabeth, which sets the entire witch
hysteria in motion. Once the trials begin, Proctor
realizes that he can stop Abigail's rampage
through Salem but only if he...
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Save The Life Abigail Williams
624 words
Adultery and shame drove a single man to engage in
a quest for truth. Life in Salem, Massachusetts
was a constant struggle consisting of false
accusations rampant among members of the
community. John Proctor was the most dignified,
capable, and stubborn in the fact that he would
not allow his wife to die as a result of his own
previous mistakes. John Proctor was the most
honorable man in the play, The Crucible. The most
decorous man in the play, Mr. Proctor, persisted
to wrangle for truth in the...
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Save His Life Order To Save
628 words
Another 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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Salem Witch Trials Mass Hysteria
495 words
In Arthur Miller? s, ? The Crucible, ? many themes
are expressed throughout the play. Themes are the
undertone of the story. A theme of a book usually
sets the mood and describes what is happening
during the time that the story is written. ? The
Crucible? has many themes that show how everything
was and how everyone acted in the year of 1692, in
Salem, Massachusetts. Mass hysteria is the most
obvious theme in the story. Mass hysteria is
represented everywhere trouble was. One example is
at the e...
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John Proctor Innocent People
351 words
The Crucible In Salem during the time of the witch
trials everyone is either politically motivated to
believe the girls wild antics are the work of the
devil, or they are so gullible that they think no
child could ever impishly scorn the holiness of
the church. Those are the two main reasons the
girls get away with accusing people of witchcraft
at first, later new reasons are introduced. After
the first victims of the girls malignant joke are
hung two new reasons to continue accusing people
arri...
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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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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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Elizabeth Proctor Arthur Miller
720 words
Human nature feels a sense of acceptance when
conformed to those in its environment. People need
to follow patterns, standards, and a structure of
behavior to feel secure. A pattern to conform to
is a kind of shelter. (Unknown) Whether a strong
faith in religion, failure to decipher the truth,
to follow the majority, or a realization of one s
conformity, Arthur Miller s The Crucible supports
human nature s natural inclination towards
conformity through the plot and characters. During
the eightee...
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Thomas Jefferson John Adams
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John Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1735. He was the son of John and Susanna
Boylston Adams. He was raised in Braintree (now
Quincy), Massachusetts. As a young man, John went
to School in Braintree and entered Harvard college
at age 16. Latin, history, and law were his
majors. As a disciplined scholar, he quickly
learned a large amount of information about
colonial law and government. Eventually he became
a lawyer in Boston. In 1764, Adams married Abigail
Smith, daughter of a ...
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Power Girls Party
878 words
The Girls Power in The Crucible and the Inner
Party s Power in 1984 At face value, the concepts
discussed in Orwell s 1984 are far removed from
those in Miller s play The Crucible. One is a
not-so optimistic view of the future, while the
other demonstrates a rather low point in early
American history. However, upon further
examination, there is evidence that the notion of
delegation of power is somewhat similar between
the two. Compared to that of the girls, the means
by which the crown of power...
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Accusations Of Witchcraft Elizabeth Proctor
798 words
Sometimes 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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John Proctor Play People
377 words
In the play, The Crucible, both scapegoats and
vengeance play prominent roles. Abigail Williams
exhibits both these characteristics. She committed
the greatest of crimes. She destroyed the
reputations of many and killed much of her
surrounding society. Her power lied in the fact
that judges believed her, making all those women
who fell victim to her scapegoats. She is the one
who triggers off a sense of hate in the play. She
tempts John Proctor into lechery, and to escape
punishment for dancing,...
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John Proctor People Abigail
377 words
In the novel, The Crucible, both scapegoats and
vengeance play prominent roles. Abigail Williams
exhibits both these characteristics. She committed
the greatest of crimes. She destroyed the
reputations of many and killed much of her
surrounding society. Her power lied in the fact
that judges believed her, making all those women
who fell victim to her scapegoats. She is the one
who triggers off a sense of hate in the play. She
tempts John Proctor into lechery, and to escape
punishment for dancing...
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