Abby May

The play The Crucible portrays the 1690’s, a time when the paranoia of witchcraft arose. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts where the famous witch trials occurred. A group of girls pretending to be bewitched accused nearly 200 people of witchcraft and a few were executed. Although John Proctor begins the play as a sinner, his wife Elizabeth helps him change into a tragic by pushing him to face his true feelings, forgive himself for his past mistakes and stand up for his family and…

She said to the girls “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”. (Miller 20) Abigail only wanted one thing she could not have which was a married man. When in court John begins to reveal his affair with Abigail. However Abigail is asked about the affair with John Proctor and she completely denies it. (Abbotson) Abigail soon comes to find…

Yikes! My first semester in college and as soon as I was handed my syllabus my palms started sweating and my heart was pounding. I was not used to seeing all the work we would be doing in the class on one piece of paper, so I found it overwhelming. My biggest fear was not having the skills needed to apply the theories to a paper. However, as we started I realized I had no reason to be worried I was great at it! In my fall 202 class I learned that I have abilities with both inward and outward…

Tragic heroes in the English Literary Community has change over time. The classic tragic hero is a nobleman who suffers from a tragic flaw which brings his downfall after an epiphany. For example, Romeo from Romeo and Juliet, or Oedipus from the play Oedipus. These men in power reveal attributes of the tragic hero. However, Arthur Miller questions why only a monarch can be a tragic hero. Miller wrote the play, The Crucible, featuring a common man, John Proctor, put into an extraordinary…

November 22, 2016. "Letters from Hernán Cortés." Letters from Hernán Cortés. Web. 22 Nov. 2016. “Hernán Cortés - Military Leader, Explorer” Biography.com. A&E Networks Television. July 8, 2014. Web. November 22, 2016. Acknowledgments Thanks to Abby Freireich, my tutor, for helping with format and clarity. As well as Sarah McCain, my mother, for helping a little with sentence…

In majority of college campuses today free speech is not only encouraged but also emphasized to be one of the most important rights a civilian could have, but is it abused or simply just taken out of context? Free speech is one of the most common rights used all over campuses throughout the nation. We often see protestors against animal cruelty and more recently against the results to the 2016 election, as well as organizations trying to raise awareness for certain causes such as global warming.…

Abby Bailey Mrs. Duffy PAP English 9- 2nd Period 12 May 2017 Technology’s Strong Hold on Our Youth In the dystopian novel of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag - pain stricken- discloses the idea that “‘We need to be really bothered once in awhile.’” He then asks his wife ‘“How long has it been since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”’(Bradbury 49) ; planting a seed of thought in a brain that has been wholly conformed to society. Throughout…

untroubled soul," (Miller 20). This "untroubled soul" that John Proctor bears has to do with his much regretted past affair with Abigail Williams, which haunts him day after day. He shows that he wishes to move on from his adultery sin when he states, "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my own hand before I ever reach for you again" (Miller 23). The use of this gory hyperbole emphasized Proctor 's strong desire to leave their relationship in the past so that he…

Her own greedy ambition and lustful desires cause her to soil Goody Proctor’s name in an attempt to break apart the marriage so that she and John may live undisturbed for the rest of their lives. Throughout the story, Abigail continually reminds John Proctor of the affair. When John tries to resist Abigail’s advances and tells her “we never touched, Abby,” Abigail slyly remarks, “Aye, but we did.” She manipulates John Proctor’s psyche by reminding him that he “loved [Abigail], and whatever sin…

vaccine is available which will be in about two years. Congress has yet to pass a bill that would allocate $1.1 billion to fighting Zika. As McNeil Jr. mentions in the Zika the emerging epidemic: “For many people-certainly many Americans-the scare may be brief: a…