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- 101: The Crucible: The Evil of Fear
- The Crucible: The Evil of Fear In The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, the strict Puritan community of Salem is bombarded with the hysteria of witchcraft. It starts when five young girls of Salem are caught dancing in the forest. Instead as ...
- 102: The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter: Proctor and Dimmesdale's Sacrifices
- The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter: Proctor and Dimmesdale's Sacrifices In many works of literature, a character makes a sacrifice that can affect his life in order to achieve something more important. In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the character John Proctor sacrifices his life, while in the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn, the character Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, sacrifices his reputation. Both characters, Proctor and Dimmesdale, respectively, gained ...
- 103: The Crucible
- THE CRUCIBLE The witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the early sixteen hundreds was a time of uneasiness and suspicion. Anyone could easily turn in his or her neighbor on the ground of witchcraft. Someone could merely ... using that as a last resort to make people aware of what was happening. This last stand for righteousness is an example of proctor's great character and rationale. Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible, a story about the Salem witch trials, and the panic resulting from it, as an allegory to show people the insanity of the McCarthy hearings. He wrote it as an allegory so that, if tried ...
- 104: The Crucible
- The Crucible I am a good girl. Im proper (1057). Abigail Williams said these words in defense of her actions. Is she good and proper? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail lied about other characters, saying that they were witches and had sold their souls to Satan. This was not the start, but it was a very important piece of the story ...
- 105: The Crucible: Struggle for Conformity
- The Crucible: Struggle for Conformity Acceptance within a culture focuses primarily on the personalities, beliefs, mores, and overall attitude of a person, and sometimes requires some degree of conformity from one belief to another. In relationship to The Crucible by Arthur Miller, many characters face this struggle of conformity delineated through the plot, and must make important choices, which determine their ultimate position within society. In this play, the madness of the Salem witch ...
- 106: Witchcraft In The Crucible
- Witchcraft In The Crucible In the Crucible one of the main topics is the one of witchcraft. The book itself is about the accusations Abigail makes saying that people are witches, she does this in order to cover up what she did ...
- 107: The Crucible: John Proctor Had Common Sense
- The Crucible: John Proctor Had Common Sense In the play "The Crucible," Millers picture, of the Salem witch hunts of 1692 may fitly be examined as a work of dramatic art, as a product of the author, and as a social document. A major character that enabled ...
- 108: The Crucible
- The Crucible The poem I have chosen to write has to deal with honesty and loyalty. In the story written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible, its major theme is truth and whether or not lying is better and under what circumstances it is acceptable. I will relate the theme of truth and honesty to other themes in the book ...
- 109: The Crucible: The Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams
- The Crucible: The Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there is one character who, because of her selfish and evil ways, causes the destruction of many people in the town of Salem. This character is Abigail Williams. In the play, jealousy, and self- interest ...
- 110: The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character
- The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character In literature, there are different types of characters. There are the types of characters that change during the story and some that don't, dynamic and static. There is ... flat, meaning the character is stereotyped, or he might be rounded, being the author described him in such a way as to just barely know him enough to tell the story. In the play The Crucible by hale is a dynamic rounded character. In Act I, the reverend is described as an eager-eyed intellectual pondering the invisible world. Hale seeks witches and gets them to confess, so god can bless ...
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