In Act 2‚ Mary Warren‚ John and Elizabeth Proctor’s maid‚ Mary‚ returned back to their house to announce that she was an official of the court for the witch trials. She said that thirty-nine people were in jail and Goody Osburn will be hung because she did not confess to the witchcraft. Mary told them that Elizabeth was accused‚ but she defended Elizabeth before the case was dismissed. Elizabeth then realized that Abigail wanted to take her place as Proctor’s wife‚ and that she was going to get executed
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In Arthur Miller’s Act 3 of The Crucible‚ both Giles’s and Mary’s deposition is meant to help but is then used against them and cause more problems and as the story goes on‚ Hale starts to show regret towards the court. At the start of act 3‚ the readers see Rev. Paris saying that the people who oppose the church is an attack. Hale starts to show his irritation when the evidence given to prove that the girl’s are pretense is seen as an attack against the church; He expresses his frustration by saying
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The novel‚ The Crucible was written in 1953 by Arthur Miller‚ which was based on the Salem Witch Trials existing in the late 1600s. In the play‚ Abigail and several other young women accuse innocent citizens of Salem for the action of witchcraft. During the trials‚ many individuals were unfairly persecuted; such as John Proctor. This event in history may be associated with the Red Scare‚ in which individuals were tried for their questionable influences of communism in the United States. When Miller
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Madeline Winn Bundle 1 9-16-15 Bundle 1 Performance Task This story starts from “The Crucibles‚” Act 4. The setting starts in a small prison located in Salem‚ Massachusetts in the year of 1692. John Proctor and Elizabeth are standing outside of the prison. Elizabeth is trying to persuade Proctor to confess to practicing witchcraft so he could avoid hanging. The different critical decisions my story will have Proctor admit to witchcraft and turn in the confession to Danforth‚ and then finding
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Word | Meaning | Sentence using one example word | The Crucible: Intro + Act I Vocabulary Savor | appetizing | The food critics keeps the food in their mouth for a period amount of time to savor all the flavor from it. | Dogmatically | Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner | He dogmatically responded to his classmate‚ which caused him to be sent to the principal’s office. | Indigenous | Native to a certain area | Lewis and Clark needed Sacagawea’s help because she was indigenous
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Epiphany “A teacher’s day is half bureaucracy‚ half crisis‚ half monotony and one-eighth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.” -Susan Ohanian. According to Webster’s dictionary‚ epiphany is a Christian holiday. It’s also recognized as a manifestation of a divine superhuman being. An epiphany is multiple things actually; it’s the sudden knowledge or insight of something‚ it is a moment of revelation. An epiphany is when a light bulb suddenly lights above your head. You suddenly ’get it’‚ everything
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English 3/Boynton Crucible Act 3 WORKSHEET 1. ! Consider the setting as the act opens. How is the different from the setting of Act 2. What is Miller doing? The setting is in the vestry room of the Salem meeting house‚ serving as the anteroom of the General Court. The setting is different from Act 2 because the setting is finally out of the house‚ its not inside a room or Rev. Paris house at all. It has become not private at all. 2. As this act opens‚ what accusation does Giles Corey make? What
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At some point and time in life‚ everybody has an epiphany. I like to call epiphanies “aha” moments or a moment when you figure something out and it changes your life and the way you view things. I am sure over the years‚ I have had plenty of epiphanies‚ like discovering my fingers and toes as a baby or learning how to ride a bike‚ but the only epiphany that sticks with me is the one that I had the summer before my senior year of high school. When I was little the future was so far away. I did not
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At the end of “Cathedral‚” the narrator has an epiphany. How would you describe it? Check the definition of “epiphany” in our text’s glossary. “Cathedral” I enjoyed reading Carver’s “Cathedral.” The “Cathedral” it was an insight on how fortunate we are to see things. I mean seeing things with our eyes is something we take for granted. We also have a gift that we do not really use and that is looking past seeing with our eyes‚ seeing with our minds‚ and ears. We often look with our eyes‚ but
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a sudden realization of self-awareness‚ through an experience of crisis or struggle‚ often refers to an epiphany. In Alice Munro’s Dance of the happy shades‚ epiphanies emerge throughout each ending of the story. For the purpose of this paper‚ I will be examining the epiphanies that unfold in both Dance of the happy shades and Days of the Butterfly. In Dance of the happy shades‚ the epiphany is aimed towards the mothers and daughters within the story. This is evident in the last few lines that state
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