Adams, Massachusetts

The theme of The Crucible is leading towards to keep a good reputation you must have self-respect and respect others. Many people were accused in Salem of witchcraft. Some of those people confessed to witchcraft to save their lives. While few refused to confess to keeping their name "respected.” Proctor says "you will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! Yuu will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me.” He says this as a way to stand up to Danforth…

Uprooting the Truth “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul,” said renowned Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson in his piece title Nature (qtd. in Perkins 591). The vitality of nature’s power is one of the fundamental pillars of Transcendentalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter mirrors this concept, nature playing a vital role in the novel from beginning to end. The influence of nature is a common theme throughout the novel. Specifically, the forest, flowers, and sunlight…

Sacrifice is giving up something valuable of yours for someone else. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller witchcraft accusations were on the rise and Abigail Williams was the main accuser. As more and more women were accused, people started to get suspicious. Accusing people started to become a way to get back at someone that you have a grudge against. John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor were suspicious of the accusations and knew some things that the court was not aware of. Giles Corey was also…

Community and neighborhood tensions: The Salem witch crisis had a complex underlying story that was a result of pre-existing rivalries and disputes spreading throughout the growing port town of Massachusetts: between agrarian and urban residents. Boyer and Nissenbaum argue that the complication arises due to social and economic tensions between the eastern and western factions of the village; The eastern faction supporting Salem Town's governance of the village's affairs whereas the…

In the Salem witch trials 200 people were accused of witchcraft and twenty people were actually executed for it. The play that is the basis of the essay is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during these Salem witch trials. One of the main characters that this play is centered around, John Proctor, a farmer in his middle thirties. As a morally ambiguous character in The Crucible, John Proctor had both honorable and disgraceful actions that contributed to the work as a whole. John Proctor has…

Profile in Courage In the midst of turmoil and chaos, one woman stood and did what she believed was right. It was nineteen-fifty, tension was running high and the fear of communism permeated throughout American society. Joseph McCarthy’s “Enemies from Within” speech furthered paranoia about communism and instigated rapid accusations, many of the accusations had no solid evidence at all. In the span of twenty-four hours from the “Enemies from Within” speech, Joseph McCarthy became a sensation.…

Brenda Shoshanna once said “ What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle”. In the year 1692, a series of trials and accusations began happening in Salem Village, Massachusetts. These court trials were nothing like the normal ones, these were for the beliefs of villagers being witches. It started with a group of young girls who said they were possessed by the devil, these girls then started to accuse some of the villagers for apparently being witches. A book…

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century the fear of witchcraft shook european society. Throughout England and other low countries of Europe, either the central control and government were in pieces or fear of witchcraft among religions grew out of control. Through irresponsible and unregulated accusation and execution, due to political hysteria, the lack of authority, and pure fear of the devil, we can clearly see this concept take place in Arthur Miller’s 1953 play, The Crucible.…

Have you ever had to lie in order to save your life? For most people the answer would be no but unfortunately here in the U.S in the 50’s and in 1692 the answer could have been yes. During these times McCarthyism took place and Salem witch trials. People were falsely accused of being communists or witches, and frankly it was poor evidence. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the McCarthy era because innocent people were being accused using poor evidence, feared being put on biased…

Richard Hakluyt the elder was an Elizabethan lawyer and a major proponent of English colonization of America in the 1570s. He wrote the “Inducements to the Liking of the Voyage Intended towards Virginia in 40. and 42. Degrees” in 1585 to justify and stimulate the colonization of Virginia. Hakluyt’s “Inducements” provides an insight into early British perception of North America long before the first English colony in Jamestown was even established. In this treatise, Hakluyt delineates the…