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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    The defendants in The Crucible are the young women in Salem who have all been accused of working with the devil. Although it is not explicitly stated, all the women are found guilty and are not given much of a chance to prove themselves innocent. Arthur Miller writes, “ But, Mr.Proctor, they will not hang them if they confess.” (Miller 58-59). It is seen that once any woman is accused of being a witch in Salem, it is highly unlikely that she does not either get hung or serve time in jail. We…

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    Sylvia Plath clearly embeds the story of Esther Greenwood into the political situation of the time. The Bell Jar introduces its setting by referring to the execution of the Rosenbergs. In the summer of 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of and electrocuted for espionage. It was believed that they had passed secret US military information on nuclear weapons on to Soviet Intelligence. The fear of the so-called “red scare” was omnipresent, and it was believed that more and more people…

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    How does one learn life lessons while on a dare? In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we see Sir Gawain go through just that. While on a journey to keep his word, we witness Gawain be faced with countless trials without his knowing. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was created back in the late 14th century. We witness much of the culture that was featured during that time, in this story such as knights, kings, magic etc. In this story we witness a self-depreciating knight of the round table…

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    In the fiction book “ Witch and Wizard “ James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet are talking about the life of two teenagers Whit and Wisty that were drastically accused of being witch and wizard. The author’s objective/goal in this book is to show how terribly witches and wizards are being treated due to their superpower abilities. Most of the time people would kill them,taunt them or even hang them because they do not consider witches and wizards as human beings. The author is trying to prove…

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    The Witch Trials This dramatic play that was created by Author Millers has been inspired throughout many. What play is it, one may ask? It deals with a heavy conscience, and a world of lies and bitter distaste for revenge, the play is The Crucible. The Crucible expressed many things seen in the real world today, in the sense that it includes revenge, hatred, the conscience, and most importantly sagacious actions taken by people. One of the most important points of view that the author tries to…

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    anding theme in the story. It represents the ideal qualities of a medieval knight during the 1300-1400s, the values of chivalry are including loyalty, courage, justice, mercy, faith...and in this poem, it specifically determines the values and actions of Sir Gawain and other characters. These ideals of chivalry are carried together in Gawain’s shield and the pentangle which represents the five virtues of knights.Gawain’s faithfulness to these virtues is tested throughout his journey. He keeps…

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    Crucible And Mccarthyism

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    accused were puritans, and those puritans were strong within their faith. Most people have zero mercy on one another and wanted to save themselves. What would you do ? The author of The Crucible and many other pieces of American Literature was Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller has won multiple awards for his pieces including Tony awards. Some of Miller’s plays consist of The Man Who Had all the Luck, All my Sons ( won his first Tony award for Best Author ), and one of his most popular pieces The…

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