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targeting his wife and accusing her of witchcraft simply out of jealousy. Elizabeth is proven guilty to be a witch and is sentenced to hang in less than a year since she is pregnant. John knows to save Elizabeth's life he must confess to the affair. John states “I have known her, sir. I have known her” (Miller 110). John feels very guilty that Elizabeth has to pay the price and suffer for his action so he owns up to lechery in order to prove Abigail is making up the witchcraft. John's guilt…

The Crucible Character Essay Sometimes it takes a blind man to see what is hiding in plain sight. In the book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, the reader sees how easily mass hysteria spreads throughout Salem when young girls accuse fellow neighbors of witchcraft. John Proctor serves as the story's main character whose decisions affect himself just as much as the novel. Throughout the story, John demonstrates his traits as well as conflict and growth as he comes to terms with his…

Adolescence and suicide are the main topics in Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why book. Throughout the entire book, we are vaguely introduced to multiple characters and are shown multiple different storylines that all lead to one specific event. Every individual character is important since each one becomes a reason for Hannah Baker’s suicide. The reader is also able to understand some of the different aspects that may trigger suicide as well as suicidal thoughts from one of the main characters.…

Were socioeconomic tensions responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem? YES Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum believe that the political and economic tensions among the people of Salem, Massachusetts are to blame for the chaos in regards to witchcraft. They compare the events to a dramatic set piece where the town was in a power battle between political members and clergymen with the common folk and famers. Farmers were adamant about not becoming a part of commercial communism, wanting a…

The overall, intention behind this shot is to allude to not only the sinister element of the preacher but also the innocence that Rachel harbors in her home. In having the lighting come from outside, it represents the preachers intentions of murder to “leak” into the innocent home of the children. The surreal element of this use of unnatural composition in the scene demonstrates a constraint for realism in not limiting the connection between the children’s fate and the mothers, unless the…

The Crucible is a play set on the historic events of the Salem Witch trials. The Crucible is only based on the events of these trials and is in fact not completely accurate. Miller alters the story line slightly to give the whirl of events a motive. The motive Miller chose to use was an affair between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. This affair lead to ABigail obsessing over JOhn and resulting in dangerous tactics to get what she wants. This is why Abigail Williams is the one to mostly blame.…

As a result of the fast changing world, people are losing sight of the simplicity of life. People in modern society concern themselves too much with gaining wealth and spending free time on technology. This could be a threat to a person’s ability to fully appreciate nature and to see their self worth. Henry David Thoreau, poet and writer, lived in the wilderness away from distractions to experience self discovery. Through this time, he discovered the importance of not allowing a modern society…

The Crucible, seen as one of the most exquisitely written plays ever has many interesting parallels to McCarthyism. The Crucible is a hyperbolized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem Witch Trials that went on in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years of 1692 and 1693. The interesting thing about The Crucible is that it was written during the height of the Red Scare. That is why comparisons are able to be drawn between the two subjects. That is also why the word McCarthyism is a…

The play, “The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller starts off with an unconscious girl named Betty Parris, and her distraught father. The situation that led to this outcome started a whole pandemonium which was known as The Salem Witch Trials. A few centuries later, a similar issue called McCarthyism would come up, and yet again, destroy people’s lives. In the Salem trials, however, innocent people were killed, and there was one main man to directly blame for those lost lives: (Judge) Thomas Danforth.…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller has fear , hysteria , and revenge . In this play Abigail is a evil & flat static character who gets revenge at people in the play but does it in the worst way & she doesn’t feel bad for her actions . Abigail is evil throughout the whole story . At this point in the story Paris is now talking Abigail which is his niece , he is talking to Abigail about what he seen in the woods & she is denying all alligations she is dishonest with her uncle Paris. “ I…