Most people hate normal things‚ such as traffic or cleaning. Other people‚ upon reading The Crucible‚ develop a sense of hatred towards Abigail Williams. Arthur Miller writes Abigail as manipulative‚ selfish‚ and an effective liar. This hatred towards Abigail is inevitable and present throughout the play‚ but Miller suggests that hatred towards an evil person is warranted. In the first act‚ Abigail immediately starts by lying‚ which becomes her first introduction to every reader. Rumors are spreading
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Sequential to the 1692 Salem witch trials‚ Author Arthur Miller transcribed the mishaps and vindictive behavior in his play The Crucible‚ which portrays the hysteria and consternation of the town. An exemplar woman named Elizabeth Proctor exhibits the arbitrary and discriminatory circumstances. In distinguishing‚ unlikeness Mary Warren impersonates a girl whose hesitancy and uncertainty guides her to condemn many lives. The play depicts the inequitable mobocracy and unjustified perpetrations provoked
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A TEACHER’S GuidE TO THE SiGNET CLASSiCS EdiTiON OF HENRIK IBSEN’S A DOLL’s HOUsE by LAURA REIS MAYER S e r i e S e d i t o r S : Jeanne M. McGlinn and JaMes e. McGlinn both at UniverSity of north Carolina at aSheville A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction .....................................................................................................3 List of Characters ...........
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Cambria Anderson Petersen AP English III/Period 3 11 November 2012 Avarice and Vengeance in The Crucible The play The Crucible takes place during the Salem Witch Trials of the 1800s. Yet Arthur Miller does not reveal the tragedy of the witch trials in the manner expected. Miller expresses the underlying causes of the accusations made as those stemming from personal greed and the feeling of revenge. Abigail Williams‚ Mr. and Mrs. Putnam‚ and Reverend Samuel Parris all have their own agendas
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In the play “The Crucible”‚ by Arthur Miller‚ it describes the happenings of the Salem Witchcraft Trials and it symbolizes how The Red Scare‚ After World War Two‚ is so similar as people accused their neighbors and friends for their own personal purpose Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” to show how Senator McCarthy and the HUAC’s actions of accusing communism is similar to Governor Danforth and the Salem Witchcraft Trials are both being fueled by propaganda and misinformation. In his play he changes
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Tyranny means oppressive use of absolute power held by an individual leader to enforce obedience by force or threats. Tyranny is clearly present in The Crucible in various characters‚ but especially Danforth with his authority in the court and Abigail with the influence she gains over the whole village‚ in particular the girls who participate in the witch trials with her. In Act Three Danforth tells Giles Corey and Francis Nurse that there are ‘seventy-two condemned to hang by [his] signature’.
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THE CRUCIBLE BY ARTHUR MILLER CAST (in order of appearance) |Reverend Parris |Fred Stewart | |Betty Parris |Janet Alexander | |Tituba |Jacqueline Andre | |Abigail Williams |Madeleine Sherwood
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When someone hurts your feelings‚ what do you do? Do you let that steal the joy God has given you? Or do you allow your imagination and your feelings run wild? The Gospel of Luke tells us what we should do when people hurt us: “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies‚ do good to those who hate you‚ bless those who curse you‚ pray for those who mistreat you.”1 Does God know what he is saying? Is he actually telling us to love the people who hate us and pray from them? God is asking us to pray
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Society has a very strong mental image of what the ideal young woman looks‚ acts‚ and behaves like. Whenever a young woman fails to live up to these outrageous ideas they are belittled and told to change what they look like and how they behave. This is exactly what happens to the girl in Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” (236). The pressure that society was putting on the shoulders of this girl became too much one day. She finally decided to give up on being herself and become who the world wanted
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