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- 191: Salem Witch Trials
- ... century, a belief in witches andwitchcraft was almost universal. In Salem Massachusetts where thewitch trials take place many people who are suspicious is accused of witchcraft and hanged. Arthur Miller wrote a play called The Crucible. It is based on the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials change many peoples lives and even led to death for some. The power of superstition and hearsay can distort from the truth. Four ... The belief in witches did not end with the strange excitement. This strange episode in the history of Massachusetts astonished the civilized world, and made an unfavorable impression on others. Work Cited Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Ellen Bowler. ed. et al. Literature the American Experiance. Englewood cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.
- 192: Life and Sacrifice
- ... some people are seeking and surviving for love. Ironically, these things that most of us are aiming for motivate us to sacrifice something important to us, in extreme cases our lives. Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a proof of a superfluous act of wasting ones life in exchange for something totally invaluable. Sacrifice, may be described as an honourable act, in fact from a realistic perspective, it is ridiculous to ... human beings have never thought of sacrificing their lives, because they do not want to give up the luxuries in the world, which is commonly understood as one of the human natures. Surprisingly, in The Crucible, the main character, John Proctor, has sacrificed his life to maintain his good reputation in Salem. Such a decision demonstrates his impulsive characteristic, which he has never considered the possible consequences to his family as ...
- 193: Constructual Building Material
- ... so that the surface of the iron acquired a high carbon content. The bars were then fused together, yielding a metal harder and stronger than the individual bars but lacking uniformity in these properties. The crucible method, consisting of melting iron together with other substances in a crucible, is one of the costlier steelmaking processes, employed only for making special steels (e.g., the famous blades of Damascus). Steel is often classified by its carbon content: a high-carbon steel is hard and ...
- 194: Strange Explanations
- ... of young girls in the community by saying witches had possessed them. In today's time we still use strange explanations, this can be shown in the idea of spontaneous combustion and alien abduction. The Crucible brought to life the depressingly, amazing story of the Salem witch trials. Even better it showed how a sensible group of people could take an ordinary situation and give it an extreme explanation. When young ... certain situations. Who knows, maybe alien abduction really is the reason people suffer from insomnia? Then again, someone else could have an even better explanation. Works Cited "Spontaneous Combustion." 1 June 1999 Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York: Penguin, 1976. "58 signs you could have been abducted." .
- 195: Johnny Tremain
- The molten silver was bubbling in the cracked crucible. It started to spill all over its sides leaking down onto the floor. At first he felt nothing, then a great sudden pang. The pain was excruciating. His body collapsed on the floor with his ... pride of power that makes him rashly promise John Hancock that he can deliver the sugar basin. In an attempt to finish the basin on time he gets in an accident because of a cracked crucible passed to him by Dove. Dove wants to get even with Johnny for being treated badly by him. After the incident Johnny becomes very conscious of his disability. He realizes that he is not as ...
- 196: Abigail Vs Hester
- ... works of literature, identities, personalities, and surroundings can be quite similar or distinct with characters in other works. Two works of literature that display both aspects are The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Abigail Williams and Hester Prynne are two women with many similarities while they also can be illuminated with many differences. The two works of literature have very similar qualities, including setting, conflict ... also specific parallels between characters, such as Abigail Williams and Hester Prynne. The time period, for which Abigail and Hester lived were almost the same, The Scarlet Letter takes place around the 1640s, while The Crucible occurs in 1692. The time period is very important in pieces, because it is a time of religious intolerance and a conservative attitude pervades in New England, where Abigail and Hester lived. Both are startlingly ...
- 197: Tragic Triumph
- It hardly takes a discerning eye to realize that life does not consist of fairy tale endings. That fact is all too apparent in Arthur Miller s The Crucible, a work which has been labeled a tragedy by many critics. Robert Heilman defines a tragedy as a work of literature in which a character divided within the self makes choices, bears the consequences of ... achieved in the culmination of Proctor s integrity, where he forever engraves in the world s mind the honor of commitment, a value which will forever be noble. It appears the critics were right: The Crucible is a tragedy. But the uniqueness of the play is what captured my heart. In fact, I cannot think of a more appropriate effect of a tragedy than this: that an unlikely hero is found ...
- 198: Cosequences Of Shame And Guilt
- Guilt and shame can tear a person's soul away. The inevitable consequence of sin is the immediate reaction of guilt, shame, and remorse. In each of the two works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are characters who have committed a sin and feel guilty about it. For example: John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Dimmesdale have all committed ... gets the courage to reveal his sin, but his sin led to his demise and he died right then and there. Clearly it is shown that all these characters in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible have sins whether they realized it or not. The characters all suffered and pity themselves more or less for being cowards and not revealing the truth at the moment they needed to. Redemption is a ...
- 199: Revenge 2
- ... of love. Once love is lost in a person, a barrage of feelings inhabits that person. One of the darkest, strongest, most eminent emotions that occur in a person is the feeling of revenge. The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter are both classic and dated stories that are mostly based upon love, lost love, and revenge. In The Scarlet Letter, Chillingsworth and Hester are supposed to be in love. They are ... revenge is more than just an angry feeling . Revenge is a deadly feeling. Revenge is the vile product of love gone awry, and both Roger Chillingsworth from The Scarlet Letter and Abigail Williams from The Crucible were both afflicted by it. Once possessed by this dark emotion, they acted with maliciousness and with utter disregard for human life.
- 200: Blind Conformity In The Crucib
- Crucible Essay - Blind Conformity Blind conformity to mass thought is an issue that greatly affected the events of the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible. The tendency of the townspeople to conform blindly may have come from their religion. Puritanism did not encourage individuality, and anyone who was "different" was looked down upon. Also, the fear of the devil was ...
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