Arthur

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…

As stated in the foreword of Mlajov’s Selection from Chrétien of Troyes, Lancelot, stories of courtly love were told to highlight the journey of a knight’s quest toward an “unattainable” woman. With the rise of this type of secular literature, it was common for the aristocracy of society to wish to produce their own tales. Marie of Champagne wished to modify older, traditional stories of a young knight’s legendary quest for a queen by elaborating them with the values of chivalry and courtly love…

Suddenly the Green Knight appears in King Arthur’s court and issue a challenge. He challenged knights in the hall, but nobody dares to accept causing the Green Knight to mock. King Arthur was about to take the challenge until the loyalty and courage of Sir Gawain stop King Arthur: "'Think of your bold knights, bursting to fight, as ready and willing. As men can be: defer to their needs. And I am the slightest, the dullest of them all; my life the least, my death no loss - My…

Finally, Guinevere rose, shakily but still regal as ever, and told Mellyagaunce to take her away while pointing a trembling finger at Lancelot. Fortunately, Lancelot knew when to back down. He bowed politely and turned back to the castle. He would tell Arthur that Guinevere was resting safe and sound in her quarters, and no one would have any clue. Mellyagaunce shrugged and beckoned to Guinevere. So, while the feasting continued uninterrupted inside, the sorceress, the knight, and the queen…

themes to be introduced. The action of the poem opens at Camelot on New Year’s Day. Arthur maintains the tradition of refusing to eat until he sees or hears of a great adventure. This is when the Green Knight enters the hall riding a green horse. He challenges the king to participate in his game that is to strike him with his axe once on condition that the Green Knight can do the same in a year and a day’s time. King Arthur is about to accept the challenge when Sir Gawain says he will take the…

Hundreds of people falsely accused of believing in something they may not even believe in. This happened in the book The Crucible and during the Red Scare. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy era because they both revolve around false accusations and differing opinions or beliefs. These false accusations lead to people being wrongly questioned and left them living in fear simply due to their opinion and beliefs. In the Mccarthy era, and in the book The…

Witchcraft Communism, and False Accusations Have you ever been falsely accused of something that you didn't do? Something like breaking into the cookie jar, or being blamed on the broken vase that has been smashed to smithereens? Well, anyone who was accused of being a communist spy in the 1950’s feels your pain. Senator Joseph McCarthy reined in the 1950’s, and he was certain that the US was plagued with Communist spies. McCarthy struck the nation with fear. Fear that one’s friends,…

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 Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, the most complex character in the play is the titular salesman, Willy Loman. Willy sole view of the measure of a person is their success, and their success is determined by how well liked they are. Willy also has an exaggerated opinion of his sons, specifically Biff. These exaggerated opinions and his fractured view of success lead him to become a depressed, and crazed man. Despite how he is painted as a despicable person, many audiences still have…

relatively similar through time. The art of literature is one of these forms of entertainment; its worldly messages have made it able to thrive over hundreds of year. One of these themes is people have dreams for the future. In The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, they both develop the theme 'hopeful dreams that people live on may not come true' by the the optimistic personality and cheerfulness of the characters they posses looking upon the future.…