his death? Use one detail from the drama to support your response. 6. What qualities does Proctor find within himself that prevent him from at last saving himself and signing the confession? Use details from the text to support your response. 7. Explain how Proctor is right or wrong for refusing to sign the confession. Use details to support your response. 8. A tragic hero’s fate‚ according to Aristotle‚ inspires pity and horror. Name the tragic hero in The Crucible‚ and describe how his or
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a public confession to witchcraft and be saved from the gallows or tell the truth and refuse to confess. Initially John signs his confession but not willing to allow to whole town to think he is a witch‚ ruining the reputation he has worked so hard to earn. He passionately tears the confession in two and when asked why he exclaims "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! ... I have given you my soul‚ leave me my name!" Miller uses this tearing of the confession to signify
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Humbert’s narration is full of wordplay and hidden meanings. He is playing with our minds throughout the novel‚ slowly gaining our trust and manipulating us. The complexity of Humbert’s narration creates an interesting and enjoyable flow to his confession that he uses to his advantage‚ since it is at some points quite difficult to piece together true facts and details of his story. His narration spontaneously changes; from a serious and eloquent demeanor‚ to a playful tone riddle-like tone with wordplay
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John states that he will keep his life. The men enter and begin to take his confession. Rebecca is brought in to hear that Proctor has given in. She is horrified and is not moved from her position of innocence. Proctor says that he had never seen any of the accused women with the Devil when questioned. He states that his confession should be enough. When it comes time to sign it however‚ he is hesitant. The confession will be posted on the church
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States Marine Corps‚ Colonel Frank H. Schwable‚ was taken prisoner by the Chinese Communists. After months of intense psychological pressure and physical degradation‚ he signed a well documented "confession" that the United States was carrying on bacteriological warfare against the enemy. The confession named names‚ cited missions‚ described meetings and strategy conferences. This was a tremendously valuable propaganda tool for the totalitarians. They cabled the news all over the world: "The United
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primary physical act • questions content are announced as though they motivated he cruelty • pain and interrogation occur together • people want confessions • betrayal occurs in confession‚ one betrays oneself and all those aspects of the word • disintegrating perception brought about by great apina and objectified in confession • no particular form of torture is required to make visible the kinship bewtween pain and death both which are radical and absolute • pain and death
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abundance of wrongful or unfair convictions found within them. Many people around the world have been wrongfully convicted‚ and sentenced to death despite their innocence because of issues like “eyewitness misidentification‚” “junk science‚” “false confessions‚” “government misconduct‚” “snitches‚” and “bad lawyering” (Causes of Wrongful Convictions). As an attempt to assuage this unleveled playing field‚ several corporations have been established with the intent to exonerate those who are wrongfully
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epiphany during these events show his fallibility and the struggle he had doing good ; therefore‚ it’s easily depicted as a rising action‚ through the frame story of Dimmesdale’s internal and external conflict‚ which leads to the climax of Dimmesdale’s confession. Throughout Dimmesdale’s encounters with the townspeople of Salem‚ it becomes clear to us that he is fallible. Dimmesdale lacks a moral code. As a minister the people look to him for advice; however‚ by the citizens talking to Dimmesdale individually
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was a secretary of the late Robert Kennedy and was still working with the Kennedy family. He begins his speech to communicate that he has “entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.” (paragraph 1‚ line 2-3) This confession of the proceedings he has gone through is an example of Bitzer theory on exigence based on the fact that he is not only admitting his crime but stating that there are more proceedings to
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The Crucible Reading Questions Directions: Answer all questions using textual evidence. ACT I 1. (a) What is Betty’s condition at the beginning of the play? (b) What were she and her cousin Abigail doing the night before? 2. Summarize Abigail’s prior relationship with the Proctors. 3. Who is Reverend Hale? Why is he contacted? 4. What seems to be the main motivation for Reverend Parris’s concern about Abigail and Betty’s behavior in the forest? 5. (a) When Reverend Parris leaves
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