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The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy era because people who were accused were forced to give up names of others, has similar consequences when accused, and fear of leader. When people were accused they were punished. All you had to do was say someone's name and make up a story, and people would look at them differently. “John was asked to sign his name by his wife and Hale so that he could live. “ You will sign your name or it is no…

In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, at the beginning of the story, the knight has taken advantage of a lonely girl, who was walking all alone on a road. The original punishment, from the king, was for him to lose his head. However, the queen did not seem this was fit for a punishment, I assume because he was higher up on the totem pole. Instead, the queen offers him a whole year and a day in order to find out what women most desire. I strongly disagree with the queen and her idea of a punishment. I…

“He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!” (Miller 145). The play The Crucible, written by Author Miller, is based on the historical events that took place during the Salem Witch Trials. Many of the characters in this play are empowered by the events that take place. One of these empowered characters is the former servant of the Proctors, Abigail Williams. Abigail admitting that she was a witch, Abigail’s accusations of other being witches, and Abigail’s affair with John Proctor…

In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, the town of Salem, Massachusetts is in hysteria as the dark forces of witchcraft become evident. Honest, religious, and an expert witch hunter, Reverend Hale is called upon to investigate the “bewitching” of Betty Parris. He is motivated by his desire to help the people and save the town from the presence of the evil, but has a change of heart when he realizes everything is not as it seems. The truth captures his attention and directs him towards saving the…

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman presents two opposing views of the American dream, one from the eyes of Willy Loman and the other from the eyes of his son, Biff Loman. Over the course of one day, Willy’s concept of success is expressed through his failures to attain it throughout his life, while Biff’s perspective is dynamic and throughout the day he comes away with a different idea entirely of what it means to be successful. Biff’s eye-opening moment comes as he recognizes the true reality…

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a fictional story about the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of those who were accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. This is a tragic story that begins with an innocent event and ends with the deaths of innocent people. Three characters are responsible for instigating and exacerbating the trials in Miller’s play. Abigail Williams manipulates people within the community in order to get rid of the wife of the man with whom…

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer based each character off all the various kinds of people from the Middle Ages. He makes most of the pilgrims very true to what they were stereotyped as at the time, but he also gave each one of them very distinct personalities and idiosyncrasies, such as the knight having a rust stain on his undergarment. Chaucer’s version of a Middle-Age innkeeper, Harry Bailly, was very accurate to what a good innkeeper would have been like at the time, as was his inn,…

“The American dream is having financial security and prosperity. It is having a nice house, good quality of life, plenty of food to eat, and more.” That is what Arthur Miller tries to convey with his character, Willy Loman, a salesman man who is past his sixty’s in his book “Death of a Salesman”. This book begins with Willy Loman’s wife coming in after she notices how he enters the kitchen, with him rubbing his sore body and letting down his burden of a strenuous day of work. However, there is a…

During the High Middle Ages there was an influx of expression through the means of literature, painting, and architecture that encompassed the religious Christian values along with the secular chivalric code. This flowering of the High Middle Ages, during the approximate years 1050-1300, is the direct result of the economic successes from agricultural and commercial advances that greatly benefitted all of the social classes. With such stimulation amongst European economy the feudal and manorial…

In Salem, Massachusetts, resided a town of people stricken by the panic of witchcraft, cruel injustices, centered around sexism, social hierarchy and the cries of young women. Tom Robinson from To kill a Mockingbird, is a prime example of the inequity surrounding one’s social status, gender and the leverage given to deceiving so called victims. Historically injustice has been topic of great distinction, as opinions regulate based on experience often leading to a greater movement. A stunning…