Arthur Andersen

“She sends her spirit on me in church, she makes me laugh at prayer!” (Miller 1109) The crucible is a story over the witch trials in Salem. This story mainly explains how people were accused and killed while showing how idiotic this period in history was. There are an abundance of circumstances and details that make the decision of who is most responsible for the tragedies a toss up. Although, Abigail Williams is the one who stuck out the most and should probably be the one held responsible.…

Salem Meets McCarthyism Imagine being killed for talking to the devil or being a communist. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, men and women were accused for talking to the devil. Joseph R. McCarthy was a politician in the 1950’s that accused men and women of being communist. Bringing the subjects together in comparison is easy considering both included unsubstantiated claims, lack of courage, and the ruining of lives. In The Crucible, all genders and ages were accused of being witches which…

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death” was said by Coco Chanel. Guilt is the feeling of having done wrong or failed in an obligation. People can be taken over by guilt and it can lead to disastrous aftermaths. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, it is seen many times throughout and is a main theme of the play. Guilt has many effects on people, and throughout the play The Crucible, it overtakes some of the characters, and by their struggles the reader can learn about how real life…

by our own side, whatever it may be. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible focuses mainly on witchcraft and the devil, and the important roles it plays in a deteriorating Puritan society. In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, a widespread hysteria breaks out and results in hangings of innocent people driven to insanity by desperation to hold to their radical religious beliefs. When so many were accused of witchcraft, the root of the problem was the devil and lack of God. Characters such as Abigail…

In the movie Monty Python the Quest for the Holy Grail, the themes of what knights are supposed to be in medieval literature are satirized. The goal of this paper is to discuss the similarities and differences of the movie and real medieval literature. The main focus points are the knight’s chivalric code, their behavior, and the responsibility of women and the characteristics of a noble quest. These, among all the other connections, are the things within the movie are mocked the most. The…

In the poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, parallels are persistent. The poet often has two or more completely different ideas in order to be able to contrast. Some things that are often contrasted in the poem are symbols. What the certain symbols represent has been highly debated throughout the years by many greats of literature. Such is the case with Donald R. Howard. Howard has his own set of ideas on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and demonstrates them in his article, “Structure and…

Arthur Miller's The Crucible draws many similarities to the events that occurred in the 1950s known as the Red Scare. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Senator Joseph McCarthy began trials to investigate suspected Soviet spies and sympathizers that were allegedly residing within the United States. Many U.S. citizens were wrongly accused and thrown in jail. Anyone who spoke out against the trials were then under scrutiny themselves, which scared many people from…

Throughout Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, multiple themes are employed such as the effect of delirium on society, the importance of reputation, and the belief that everyone indulges in the vices of hypocrisy. Miller describes the nonsense of witchcraft destroying the town of Salem. By the end of the play, three months after the accusation incidents, the village is left as a corrupt wasteland. The vengeance of the people allows their trust to falter and friendships to break. For example,…

Greed and Revenge The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about people in Salem being accused of witchcraft. Abigail works for Elizabeth and John Proctor. Then, Elizabeth fires Abigail because of Abigail displeasing her and her husband. Later on, Abigail, accuses Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, of being a witch so she can be with John Proctor. The play explores the theme that people who claim to be motivated by principles may actually be motivated by greed or revenge, which still applies…

In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Sydney Carton starts off as lazy alcoholic attorney who doesn’t have an interest in his own life and ends as a man who sacrifices his own life for a friend that married the girl of his dreams. He even calls himself a worthless and good for nothing man and then he makes a 180 degree turn to become a man who sacrifices himself for his friends. Carton’s evolution reflects the whole books greater theme and purpose which is you can redeem yourself through…