The Crucible: A Review
.... accuse. Is it perhaps simple human nature to fear and
hate that which we do not know? Is the human race, as a whole, really this
close to the swamps and oceans from which we pulled ourselves? Has
evolution really just played some sort of immense prank on us, bestowing
upon us the gifts of reason and judgment, but blurring them with prejudice
and blind hatred? (Too many question...Not enough answers... Isn't that
always the case?)
The Crucible is an incredible book, through the medium of a
histori .....
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The Crucible: Witchcraft
.... accused people of being a witch
mostly because of this reason.
Another big reason that someone would be a witch is that they did
not like that person or they were just scared of them. Sometimes if you saw
someone walking and they looked funny or just doing something bad you can
say that they are a witch. You could of also said that someone was a witch
if they were not praying at all. Then if you were accused of being a witch
and did not want to be one, you can just say that you were made to do .....
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The Crucible: Act Four Analysis
.... will fight till the end. "It is hard to give a lie to dogs.",
he says.
Proctor continually wavers in his decision whether to confess to
this outright lie, or to spite the evil and be hung in martyrdom. Up to
this point in time, the court officials have no definitive proof that any
witchcraft has actually been practiced. Innocent people are being hung only
on account of the testimony given by one young girl. Proctor realizes that
by confessing, he will mar the memory of the many who have thus far been
ki .....
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The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Tragic Hero
.... of John Proctor. It was essential
that Proctor be viewed as the so called "good guy" in the plot, one who
stands out or the audience can relate to. He is described as a "farmer in
his middle thirties" with a " powerful body" and a "steady manner", and is
already being established as the protagonist in which we sympathize
with.(p.19) Miller's choice to describe him in such a fashion is very
significant. By describing the tragic hero as a "strong, steady, farmer"
the dramatic effect is even great .....
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The Crucible: The Tragedy At Salem
.... 7). While espousing purity and godliness, the Puritans of
Salem were a political group with leanings toward power and weakness. They
were unable to keep these two characteristics in check at the time of the
witch hunt. This resulted in the witch hunts becoming "a perverse
manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance
began to turn toward greater individual freedom"(Miller 7). Their
theocracy allowed for no expression of individuality, lest the individual,
in sho .....
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The Crucible: John Proctor's Decision To Die; Is The Right One?
.... them that he stood up for what he believed in. John Proctor is not
a man known to go to church often, but he must of remember this quote from
the bible: "No one has love greater than this that someone should surrender
his soul in behalf of his friends"(John 15:13). This quote means that
someone should surrender his or her soul for their friends, and by dying
and standing up for what he believed in he taught his kids a valuable
lesson.
Proctors decision to die also solved his inner conflict with
himself .....
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The Detriment That Society Can Cause To Its Inhabitants
.... for many of the characters.
At the beginning of the story, Nora reveals to Mrs. Linde that she
has committed an illegal act and has broke the law. Nora's husband was
very sick and the only way for him to get better was for him to go to Italy.
There was no way that they could afford the trip on their income. To pay
for the trip, she borrowed money from one of the bank employees, Krogstad.
Then to pay him back, she worked odd jobs and bought the most inexpensive
clothing, and used the money she saved .....
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Fate In King Lear
.... to
account for human action and misfortune. Just as the stars in their
courses are fixed in the skies, so do the characters view their lives as
caught in a pattern they have no power to change. Lear sets the play in
motion in banishing Cordelia when he swears "by all the operation of the
orbs from whom we exist and cease to be" that his decision "shall not be
revoked". How like the scene in Julius Caesar wherein Caesar says "For I
am constant as the Northern star" Lear vows to be resolute but dies
re .....
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Comparing Washington And Macbeth: The Fate Of A Nation
.... his control. He could have easily performed a "coup d'état"
and seized control of the newly freed nation. However, Washington's
ambitions were not to become a dictator, or king. He believed that power
did not come from controlling others, but from the honor and respect that
was given to him. Washington knew that this power would only come from
subordination to civilian authority. He would be a precedent by being the
first general to turn down his immense powers. With these actions,
Washington assure .....
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The Fate Of King Oedipus
.... is the basis for my assumption that
Oedipus had no control over his fate.
First of all, when Oedipus is just a baby his father, King Laius of
Thebes, is told in an oracle that his own son will kill him. So, with the
agreement of his wife, Jocasta, the baby's feet are pinioned, and it's
given to a slave who is supposed to leave it to die on Mt. Cithaeron.
However, the slave feels sorry for the baby, and gives it to a fellow
shepherd from Corinth. The shepherd from Corinth presented the baby to the
chi .....
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The Generation Gap In King Lear
.... material things. For example, in
[Act 1 scene 1] when Lear is dividing up his land, power and authority to
his three daughters, depending on how much they can verbally express their
love for him. [Lines 52-53] "Which of you shall say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may extend where nature doth with merit
challenge." The land that each daughter received is the extent of their
authority and of their power in the Kingdom. For example, the Duke of
Burgundy did not wish to marry Cordelia afte .....
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Macbeth: The Murder
.... Macbeth's way was
that Malcolm and Donalbain fled because they thought that whoever killed
their father would come back to kill them next.
Now that Macbeth was king he felt more and more paranoid about what
he had done. Macbeth hired murderers to kill Banquo and his son. The
murderers killed Banquo, but his son escaped. This meant that the
prophecy that Banquo's son would become king could still come true.
Again Macbeth made another big mistake. At the dinner party he
kept mentioning that he wished .....
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Oedipus Rex: The Punishment Of The King
.... been a
particularly good monarch, in fact his only major accomplishment seems to
be killing the Sphinx all those years ago, having a king put to death could
have serious repercussions on the rest of the kingdom. So in the end, the
only way to cure the plague and keep the kingdom stable seems to be the
banishment of Oedipus. In this case, the question of whether or not he
deserved to be punished seems irrelevant; Oedipus' only goal was to stop
the plague and by leaving, he has accomplished that goal. Banis .....
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The Crucible: An Analysis
.... children, who would be scarred for life because of
the horror in the town, at their early age. Some of the youngsters
themselves are being put on trial, as the witches' familiars.
It is also an ordeal for the girls, because they are finally having
power thrust upon them, after being shunned all their lives, because they
are both female and children. By giving the pointing finger to the girls,
they suddenly have the highest status of any in the town, with as much
responsibility and reverence as th .....
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Oedipus The King: Dramatic Foreshadowing
.... to a character. All of
these are important elements of a play. However it is not hard to imagine
a play in which more then half of the elements of a plot, namely exposition,
discovery, point of attack, complication and crisis all be caused by an act
of foreshadowing or prophecy. Indeed, “Oedipus the King”, which was
considered the greatest play in history by Aristotle, was one such play.
"Oedipus the King" was the story of the King of Thebes, Oedipus,
and his dark past history which no .....
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