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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In Arthur Millers’‚ The Crucible‚ Miller demonstrates how certain situations can change a characters opinion or point of view‚ with enough evidence. Reverend Hale is a prime example who experiences change from confident‚ to doubt and frustration of the court‚ and then regret of the innocent being persecuted because of his wrong accusation during the witch trial executions in the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. Coming into the Town of Salem‚ Massachusetts Reverend Hale illustrates a great deal of confidence
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Williams Character Analysis In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the antagonist‚ Abigail Williams‚ makes it blatantly obvious to the reader that she will fill the role of villain in the play. Abigail shows no sign of remorse for her actions throughout the entire story which makes her seem downright diabolical. She is so full of revenge against Elizabeth‚ and lust for John Proctor that it seems as if nothing could stop her manipulation of the entire town. However‚ Miller gives the reader reason to believe
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“The Crucible” The crucible convey themes of betrayal ‚ death ‚ and foolishness. Arthur Miller centers on Abigail Williams ‚ a troubled 17 year old girl ‚ who starts the main conflicts of the play. Her false confessions of witches convinces the local Puritans that witchcraft is among them. With false confessions ‚ her personal affairs are scandalous. Her relations with John Proctor have an effect on his marriage & his wife. In this essay ‚ I’ll center on Abigail Williams & how she affected
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Sophia Popescu & Kirsten Watkins English III AP 1 30 October 2014 A community may not always be regarded as reputable‚ yet social norms and taboos are established to keep it afloat. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ societal conduct is violated and a community is capsized. In this socially awakening play‚ society is corrupted when a naivete community is immersed in power that enables insignificant people to manipulate the status quo to selfishly satisfy their own societal welfare and relationships
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John Proctor in The Crucible is faced with a decision; to live with a lie‚ or die for his belief. John Proctor made the best decision possible‚ to die for his belief and carry his good name. In doing this‚ he secures his children’s future by leaving a good reputation. He only has one name in his lifetime‚ so he chose to die to keep it instead of lie and tear his reputation down for himself and his future kin. Your name is legacy‚ and is more important than life itself. Although life is important
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In the Crucible there are many characters who take their reputation matter and think too highly of it. There are some characters in this play that do not care for their reputation in the community. One of the first characters we see that sees highly of the idea of reputations is Reverend Parris. When Mr.Parris finds out about the dancing and possible witchcraft that was going he was more concerned about what people would say about him then the safety of his own daughter. Throughout the play you can
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible it is explicitly shown that fear induces people to denounce their beliefs in order to protect their life from being threatened‚ or taken away. As seen in The Crucible‚ when someone is in a situation that impulses fear one tends to lie about certain details in order to protect themselves‚ without minding the effects on others. In this play Mary Warren‚ a timid and weak young girl‚ was the first to announce that the witchcraft accusations were nothing but false claims
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Can you recall anyone in history who had extreme beliefs? In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible‚” which talks about the Salem witch trials‚ there are parallels to the McCarthy era because‚ they were both very tense times. People were being accused of conspiring and had to face consequences for actions they might have not even done. People were being falsely accused of conspiring against God. In Salem the people were very avid about their religion‚ therefor being accused of witchcraft was as to be conspiring
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Motivation can be clearly defined as why someone chooses to do what they preform‚ the reason behind the madness. Within Arthur Miller’s drama‚ The Crucible‚ the motivation of the many different characters is very conspicuous‚ as there are many hints throughout the text. The play is a fictionalized and dramatized version of the story of witchcraft in Salem‚ Massachusetts that took place during 1692. The drama was allegedly a representation of McCarthyism‚ the practice of making accusations without
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