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    Life would be so much easier if the truth was black and white, but in reality, the truth is more of a grey area. In the play Doubt: A Parable, Father Flynn’s innocence is unsure to both the readers and the characters in the play. Although there doesn’t seem to be enough evidence to prove he is guilty, Sister Aloysius is “armed with her certainty” and gets Father Flynn to leave the school (Shanley . The lack of physical evidence makes Sister Aloysius attempts to expose Father Flynn fruitless, but…

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    The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about early America during the witch trials. In the Crucible a antagonist, Abigail Williams, had accused and had deadly sins and her dark heart blam people of witch craft, she also wanted to have an affair with a married man. One of the most responsible deadly sin in this play was lust and greed. Both play a key role in the story. Lust is what Abigail had, greed is what a lot of people had in Salem and some had lust and other deadly sins. Lust is an…

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    jurors excluding Juror #8, view the boy as guilty. They claim that this is due to the evidence they were presented with, but it is also related to their bias and the fact that they want to go home as early as possible. This can be seen when Juror #7 states, “ Let’s vote now. Who knows, maybe we can all go…

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    In the fiction book “ Witch and Wizard “ James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet are talking about the life of two teenagers Whit and Wisty that were drastically accused of being witch and wizard. The author’s objective/goal in this book is to show how terribly witches and wizards are being treated due to their superpower abilities. Most of the time people would kill them,taunt them or even hang them because they do not consider witches and wizards as human beings. The author is trying to prove…

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    The Witch Trials This dramatic play that was created by Author Millers has been inspired throughout many. What play is it, one may ask? It deals with a heavy conscience, and a world of lies and bitter distaste for revenge, the play is The Crucible. The Crucible expressed many things seen in the real world today, in the sense that it includes revenge, hatred, the conscience, and most importantly sagacious actions taken by people. One of the most important points of view that the author tries to…

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    Specializing in human personality, honored Swiss Psychiatrist, C.G Jung Claims, “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. Deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ” People aren’t born good or bad, pessimistic or optimistic, introverts or extroverts etc. But our human nature will certainly grow up with traits inhibiting such behaviors, we can reveal our good side but we try to hide the bad side of ourselves. In the case…

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    Crucible And Mccarthyism

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    of the cold war, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies “. McCarthyism or Red Scare was the way that Joseph felt, he felt as if communists had taken over the U.S. State Department. Therefore he became chair of the Senate’s committee on investigations. People have various opinions on what McCarthy did, but McCarthy fought for what he believed in so nothing he done was wrong. If it had been an actual problem the…

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    Proctor’s Moral “I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another” (Miller 113). The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. A wave of hysteria is spreading throughout Salem. Many people were falsely accused of conspiring with the devil, including John Proctor’s family. John Proctor is a religious man of his word whom praises his family and religious beliefs above all. Proctor’s sacrifices show the important values of family, reputation, and honesty to him and ultimately…

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    Although the majority of the afflicted during the Salem Witch Trials were women, some historians believe that the men of the village were the true driving force behind the trials. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum are two such people, and in their book Salem Possessed: The Social Origins Of Witchcraft, they write about their discoveries concerning the long standing economic and political issues underlying the trials in Salem. Within their work, they split the citizens of Salem into two separate…

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    Well used imagery can be as vivid as a one million paintings. Kate Chopin uses imagery throughout many of her timeless short stories. Kate Chopin was a short story author based out of Louisiana. Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, MO and later died on August 22, 1904. Throughout her life Chopin was a very well-known women’s rights activist. Kate Chopin was also very against the abuse and enslavement of African Americans. Chopin uses amazing imagery throughout the short story…

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