Arthur Laffer

What happens in the story? Summarize the plot (the gist of the happenings). In the story, the main character, at first known only as Quexana, whose mind is addled from spending all of his time reading fantasy stories, becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a knight and going on chivalrous adventures. He gathers up his great grandfather’s old armor, renames Himself Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante, and sets out on his quest. He comes upon an inn, which he sees as a castle, where he…

Were socioeconomic tensions responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem? YES Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum believe that the political and economic tensions among the people of Salem, Massachusetts are to blame for the chaos in regards to witchcraft. They compare the events to a dramatic set piece where the town was in a power battle between political members and clergymen with the common folk and famers. Farmers were adamant about not becoming a part of commercial communism, wanting a…

The Crucible is a play set on the historic events of the Salem Witch trials. The Crucible is only based on the events of these trials and is in fact not completely accurate. Miller alters the story line slightly to give the whirl of events a motive. The motive Miller chose to use was an affair between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. This affair lead to ABigail obsessing over JOhn and resulting in dangerous tactics to get what she wants. This is why Abigail Williams is the one to mostly blame.…

Beyond the Socially Acceptable There are many things that can be said about Decadent poetry. It’s central themes are numerous, from aestheticism and beauty for the sake of it, to paganism and the urban, there are a multitude of angles one can take when analysing and interpreting the work of the poets of the fin du siècle. One of those themes is the idea of transgression; going beyond the limits and the law, exploring what is socially acceptable and more importantly what isn’t, and the…

The Crucible, seen as one of the most exquisitely written plays ever has many interesting parallels to McCarthyism. The Crucible is a hyperbolized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem Witch Trials that went on in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years of 1692 and 1693. The interesting thing about The Crucible is that it was written during the height of the Red Scare. That is why comparisons are able to be drawn between the two subjects. That is also why the word McCarthyism is a…

Life often positions people in our lives who will be blessings or lessons, sometimes those lessons come in the form of betrayal. Betrayal from the people we least expect it from, and those who we are the closest to. That betrayal can cause damage that can be permanent such as in the book, Of Mice and Men. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, a huge betrayal is what completes the whole meaning of the work as a whole. The betrayal becomes the falling action of the story and it illuminates…

In Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, the reader is presented with an underlying theme of alienation. This state of alienation or estrangement is seen by the isolation of the main character from a group or activity and their loss or lack of sympathy. Gregor Samsa loses his identity through the estrangement of his obligation to financially support his family and his duty as a traveling salesman. This estrangement is initially somewhat apparent by his physical transformation and later on thoroughly…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller has fear , hysteria , and revenge . In this play Abigail is a evil & flat static character who gets revenge at people in the play but does it in the worst way & she doesn’t feel bad for her actions . Abigail is evil throughout the whole story . At this point in the story Paris is now talking Abigail which is his niece , he is talking to Abigail about what he seen in the woods & she is denying all alligations she is dishonest with her uncle Paris. “ I…

Being Kidnapped seems like a situation that would be terrible to be in. For one kid, it was the best few days of his life and he did not want to leave. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, is a fictional short story. Bill and Sam are the two main characters in the story. With much work they plan to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To do this they need two thousand dollars. These two men decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the…

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…