The Crucible
.... across now as nearly comical, a self-aware performer keeping a straight face as he does his juicy threat-shtick.
McCarthy\'s power to stir fears of creeping Communism was not entirely based on illusion, of course; the paranoid, real or pretended, always secretes its pearl around a grain of fact. From being our wartime ally, the Soviet Union rapidly became a expanding empire. In 1949, Mao Zedong took power in China. Western Europe also seemed ready to become Red--especially Italy, where the Communist P .....
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The Crucible - A Harsh Reality
.... by her authoritative, prejudiced, and snobbish remarks.
Abigail Williams also shows a tinge of resentment in the play. When Mary Warren confesses that the witchcraft is only pretend, Abigail is angry. She accuses Mary of being a witch, too. Abigail\'s resentment of her friend\'s betrayel causes her to seek revenge. After Abigail\'s brief affair with John Proctor, she can not accept the fact that the relationship has ended. She says, \"I look for John Proctor that took me from my sle .....
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The Crucible - Burn The Witch
.... He did attend for a short while but later dropped out.
Even though most people believe those young girls were the only ones accused, also grown men and women were too. History tells about how a neighbor’s pig fell astray into the Nurse family’s yard and Rebecca Nurse yelled at her neighbor. Soon after the neighbor feel ill and died of a stroke.
Arthur Miller, the original writer, admits in the introduction to the play that he boosted Abigail Williams\' age to 17 even though the real gi .....
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The Crucible - Characters Hidden Motives
.... save the people on trial. Even when he knew he could be named, he tried to shed light on what was really going on in Salem. He admitted to adultery because he thought I might rectify some of the problems. Even right before being hung, he wouldn’t confess to witchcraft- he did what he thought was right and wouldn’t conform to what other people thought.
Not all of the characters could fit into one of these categories, like the Putnams and Reverend Hale. At first, the Putnams wanted their little Ruth to g .....
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The Crucible - Comparing Play And Movie
.... church meeting at the beginning of the movie to see about Betty\'s condition. Betty seemed to be much more violent in the movie and she tried to jump out of the window, which did not occur in the play. These details were most likely added to augment the idea of \"mass hysteria.\" A scene was added in the movie, showing the hangings and cheers of the crowd watching, also to add to that effect.
Next, Tituba was not whipped into confession in the play, whereas she was in the movie. This was most indefin .....
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The Crucible - Conscience
.... and the authority here is the Church. Law is based on the doctrines of the Church, and Salem is a theocracy.
\"For good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity…but all organization is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition, just as two objects cannot occupy the same space. Evidently the time came in New England when the re .....
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The Crucible - Film Review
.... Two of the girls were so frightened, that they pretended to be in an unwakeable sleep. The belief in the Devil shown in this film shows the historical accuracy. This is true because such strong beliefs in evil pg 3 and the Devil were certainly recorded, such as the belief that because the Native Americans were not Christian, they must be evil. Another strong and influential feeling, was the feeling of judgement. Judgement by God, as well as by others. It is a well known fact that the Puritans judged th .....
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The Crucible - Inner Struggles
.... his struggle with himself.
John Proctor a farmer and village commoner is similarly faced with an inner turmoil. He has committed adultery with Abigail while his wife was sick. He was fully aware of his immoral actions and the enormity of the problem. Once he though this problem has vanished, it came back to slap him in the face. Abigail decided to call John’s wife, Goody, a witch, this in turn spurs conflict and anger among the townspeople. Proctor then gets involved in these witch trials and claims t .....
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Under Milk Wood
.... he feels females are, he said, \"I told you\" almost scornfully as if he\'s trying to say that if he said it, it must be right which isn\'t the case. Tom\'s complete sexist attitude is shown by the word \"girls\" here he generalises about any females ability to learn Latin although I\'m sure that isn\'t the case and he just makes the comment purely because of his sexist nature.
Tom\'s sexism isn\'t just used against his sister, he uses it to put others down as well, \"like a girl\'s: Tom thought that .....
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Utopia
.... insight.
The inconsistency between the prospectus in the curious paragraph and the subject matter that follows in the printed version of Utopia becomes intelligible if we make a few assumptions about the development of the books composition. The conclusion various scholars have come to about More\'s attitude toward the institution of property coincides to a remarkable degree with their own pre-dilection on that point, or with their notion of what More should have thought. In Utopia More put the onl .....
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Waiting For Godot
.... of Lucky\'s actions), while Pozzo seems quite apathetic to Lucky\'s deeds and plights. However, in the second act, Pozzo needs Lucky to exist, because Pozzo is blind. Perhaps this is similar to the theory that God would not exist if man did not believe in Him.
Pozzo and Lucky are easily compared as the oppressed masses and the wealthy oppressors. If Beckett is trying to be a social critic, he could be saying that the oppressed are dumb and moored (Lucky is mute), or maybe he is merely showing humans .....
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Waiting For Godot
.... pulling Pozzo\'s carriage in a relationship that seems cruel and domineering. Yet Lucky is strangely compliant. In explaining Lucky\'s behavior, Pozzo says, \"Why he doesn\'t make
himself comfortable? Let\'s try and get this clear. Has he not the right to? Certainly he has. It follows that he doesn\'t want to...He imagines that when I see how well he carries I\'ll be tempted to keep him on in that capacity...As though I were short of slaves. Despite his miserable condition, Lucky does not seem to desi .....
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Walden Two
.... Throughout the novel, not one of them is ever actually publisher. Not even MaritoÕs friends really like his writing. In Chapter thirteen he reads the one about Aunt Eliana to Javier, Aunt Julia, and even to Pascual and Big Pablito. After they hear it, not one of them really has anything nice to say about it at all. So, although writing is one of MaritoÕs passions, it is also one of his demons. It is basically his job and how he makes a living at the radio station ÒRadio Paname .....
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Walking Across Egypt
.... expecting and encouraging this dependence.
Elaine and Robert, Mattie\'s two unmarried children, along with other family and friends, are encouraging her to be what they expect a seventy-eight year old woman to be. They talk about how she needs to get rest because she is slowing down and can\'t keep going as steady as she seems to think. When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert .....
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War Of The Worlds: Human Survival
.... emerged from the darkness, firing the deadly heat ray. The snake-like tentacle was an appendage on the almighty Martian fighting machine.
The humans had to overcome threats to their existence by fighting back. For many it was a constant battle to persevere in spite of their losses and for some it was the journey of escape in which to survive.
Without any chance of survival, many are killed in the line of duty as they sacrificed their lives for others. Many have been killed because they have hid .....
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