Abigail’s actions have revolved around her love for John Proctor. Everything she has done was to not let their secret affair get out and for her and John to be together. Abigail’s skill of being a liar is shown in the beginning of the play. Uncle Reverend Parris caught Abigail doing witchcraft in the woods‚ but instead she lies about it. She says‚ "We did dance‚ uncle‚ and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly‚ Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it" (Miller‚ 1953
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“…politics‚ religion‚ family feuds‚ economics‚ and the imaginations and fears of the people…” (Sutter). Before the witch trials‚ there were political worries involving the residents of Salem and the new minister Reverend Samuel Parris. The residents were outraged that their tax dollars went to Reverend Parris’s unusually special privileged income and extra accommodations that ministers do not usually get. All this was arranged by the Putnam family‚ who was a leading figure family in Salem since most its
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Tituba being a slave for Parris could be easily blamed for his daughter not waking.. Tituba cares for the girls like betty by saying things like “I love me Betty!”(1232). With this quote she shows that she is a caretaker and the dancing in the forest was not meant for harm but a
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If only Reverend Jonathan Hale knew what he was getting himself into as he stepped into Salem on a dark gloomy day. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ it seems that the characters all care about getting rid of witchcraft. But in the end‚ their actions go too far‚ and their accusing become unethical. Since Reverend Hale is motivated by finding and ending witchcraft‚ his decision to stop retaliating against the court creates many tragedies in the ending of the play. Many things motivate Reverend
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Szymanski 1 The Foolish One Since Reverend Brown is a harsh man‚ He is also a fool. According to the bible all harsh men are fools. They react out of anger and in Proverbs 18:2 it says‚ “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding‚ but only in expressing his [own] opinion” (English Standard Version). This meaning that they don’t enjoy other opinions or even the opinion of God‚ but are selfish in their thoughts and expressing their thought to others. The bible states that they are quick to anger (Proverbs
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The Reverend Sylvester Graham 1) Lived between July 5‚ 1794 – September 11‚ 1851 2) was an American and an early advocate of dietary reform in the United States 3) Sylvester Graham was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister. 4) What criticism of American society did the individual have? a) was most notable for his emphasis on vegetarianism and the temperance movement‚ anti-masturbation‚ as well as dietary habits. 5) What methods did the person use to improve American
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The Salem witch crisis‚ which occurred during the 17th century‚ involved a series of hearings and prosecutions of individuals in the Salem community who were accused of witchcraft. This crisis began in mid-January when the daughter and niece (Betty Parris and Abigail Williams) started having fits after playing with white magic (Wilson‚ 7). This was followed by more cases of alleged afflictions as other girls in the neighborhood started showing similar behaviors. The more afflictions also led to a long
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In the opening of the play‚ how does Miller seek to create an atmosphere of hysteria and tension? Do you find the opening effective? Premiering in 1953‚ Arthur Miller’s the crucible was a scathing attack on the Communist scare of the era in the guise of a dramatization of the witch hunts that took place in Salem in the 1960’s. Throughout the beginning the play follows how fear of death‚ The Devil and the unknown causes people to submit to madness and how the sense of guilt could cause them
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of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft ( use of alleged supernatural‚ magical faculties) in colonial Massachusetts in the 1690’s. The mass hysteria in the salem village started when two young girls (daughter & niece of Reverend Samuel Parris) started to show cryptical behavior. Other young women started to show similar behavior. Salems inhabitants started to believe that the cause of these cryptical behaviors was ’witchcraft’. Mass hysteria made a negative impact on this society
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Yemi Salami Mrs. R. Patterson English 5 AP 22 October‚ 2012 Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is one troubled (and multi-faceted) man. A brilliant speaker‚ a kind man‚ a wise reverend – everyone loves this guy. He’s pretty much a rock star in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (and that doesn’t seem like such an easy feat in Puritan society). With his education and religious standing it allows him to have a larger sense of humility and understanding. So with Dimmesdale also being
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