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ever changing lists of alleged communists within the state of department. Egged on by other politicians, he continued to make outrageous accusations while distorting or fabricating evidence.” This relates to the main antagonist Abigail Williams from Arthur Miller's play The Crucible because on Abigail’s quest to gain the love of John Proctor, she and her friends started the Salem witch hunt. The girls ran around accusing many people; the people they disliked and those who got in their way.…

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is an allegory, meaning it can be interpreted to reveal hidden meanings, usually political or moral ones. This all happened during the Salem Witch trials, where people were initially scared of the idea and spread of Communism. This made people believe that anyone could be a communist, and this ended up making people believe others were witches. The people of Salem went around pointing fingers at others to take the blame off of them that they could be witches. They…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller many characters are responsible for the outcome of the story. The Crucible is about three teenage girls who are caught dancing in the woods. Dancing was not allowed in Salem in 1692 and they knew that they would be punished. To avoid their punishment they accuse others of making them do it by using witchcraft. Innocent people are hanged because of the lie they made. This starts the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail Williams, one of the girls in the woods, is most…

almost everything he was traded, up until the green girdle. Finally, Sir Gawain lived by the chivalric code, and was humble, and loyal to his people. When the Green Knight came to Camelot and challenged King Arthur and his subjects to a battle, no one volunteered. As the king, King Arthur is obliged to take on the odd challenge, and take a swing at the Green Knight, so long that the Green Knight can return the…

Hunting Witch Hunters In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, the author implies that there are multiple reasons that Danforth, Hathorne, and the other authorities choose to believe Abigail and the other girls, Rather than choosing to believe more respectable townspeople like Proctor and Giles. The Crucible is a story of mass hysteria in the town of Salem Massachusetts in the 1690s, where many people are accused of being witches, and many were even hanged for the accusations. The reason for Danforth…

“I want to leave.” , said Arthur. “ We can not, we are bound to this land by oath.” , said Helena. The land Arthur and Helena worked on was owned by a serf named Edwin and his family for 50 years. The landscape was lush and filled with crops ripe for the harvest to come. Arthur did not like living under Edwin's rule because he was cruel to the peasants that worked on his land. Arthur had heard of a beautiful land that was only a day's walk, but his wife said it was a lie and that he should never…

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is one of the most compelling modern texts that discusses fear and how it affects society as a whole, as well as the individual. It is no coincidence that this play was written during the contemporary witch hunt called the Red Scare. Miller was clearly using the many similarities between the early colonial setting of his writing and the bleak truths of his time period to draw attention to patterns that repeat throughout history and will continue to repeat as long as…

required a knight of Arthur’s to chop his own head off, then he would get to return the favor to them. He then began to mock the knights calling them cowards due to the fact none of them would step up to the plate and accept the challenge. Then, with Arthur and Guinevere’s permission, Gawain rises from his seat and accepts the call of the Green Knight. He takes the axe from the giant knight and chops his head off. To the hall’s surprise, the body picked up the head and mounted the horse again.…

It all started in a small Town called Salem, Massachusetts where many were accused of practicing witchcraft in 1692 which lead to Arthur Miller’s writing of The Crucible. It is simply about a group of girls who begin to accuse several different people of witchcraft in which they are also able to convince the leaders of the community that the Devil is present in Salem. This leads to the killing of nineteen innocent people and one dog. This is very similar to the persecution of communist in the…

Arthur Miller is the author of The Crucible. He was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York City, NY. He is also known for his playwrights like All My Sons and Death of a Salesman. Unfortunately Arthur Miller died on February 10, 2005 in Roxbury, Ct. Arthur Miller’s universal theme in The Crucible was that lying can only you so far which is shown in the conflict between Mary Warren vs. Abigail and the girls in the courtroom. One conflict that expresses the theme of lying can only get you so…