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    Parris Arthur Miller wrote a play, the time setting of this place was during the 1950’s. The title of the play was called The Crucible. When he was writing the play he was thinking of the puritan era, and the story took place in a town called salem and, and the story is about witch trials and witch hunts. All of the characters that are used in this play, were real people. Arthur went to massachusetts to review characters for the play. So there for the characters are based on real people. Arthur…

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    company hire him with the vision to increase the value of Sunbeam because the profits were declining for several years. He have a reputation of giving high profits for companies With the help of a partner of Arthur Anderson, Albert committed a huge accounting fraud as the CEO of Sunbeam. Because Arthur Anderson was auditing the Sunbeam Corporation. With him joining sunbeam its stock increased by 50% in a day. He soon fired most of Sunbeam executives, and bring his own team who would go along…

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    Massachusetts Bay Colony for committing adultery with a town minister. Because of her sins committed, she is now sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to mark her shame because of her choice to have a love affair with a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the whole story, Hester can be seen as a strong woman who not only wants to stand up to Puritan beliefs, but she wants to stand up for her rights as being a woman, just like a feminist. A feminist is someone who wants to…

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    Sir Gawain: A Short Story

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    had recovered from the messiness of the entire situation and put it behind him. However, if Gawain was referring to being in love with Queen Guinevere, he might as well slice off his own head and save Arthur the trouble. Besides, Gawain’s friendship with King Arthur was still healing. Though Arthur had asked Gawain impregnate the queen, the whole incident fired up Arthur’s jealousy, and only recently had the two men resolved their differences. Thus, Gawain and Arthur’s relationship remained…

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    As stated in the above paragraph, the main focus of this paper is The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Set in the small Puritan village of Salem, Mass., The Crucible starts with the girls dancing under the moonlight in the woods. When the reverend's daughter, Betty, falls into a coma like state, rumors of witchcraft spread quickly through the town. After Abigail blames the reverend's slave, Tituba, for witchcraft, to which she confesses but says she is not the only witch in Salem, leading to…

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    Tuscany, and Brutus of Britain. Along the many leaders of Britain, it is said the greatest was King Arthur. The poet’s game of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an “awesome episode in the legends of Arthur.” In essence, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight revolved around games, because the Green Knight played a game on Sir Gawain and his five senses, a game…

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    world’s wisest philosophers once said, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light” (Plato). In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Miller demonstrates how the Red Scare of the 1950s is similar to the devastating Salem Witch Trials of 1692. When Arthur Miller put The Crucible into writing, the world was a scary place, even in such a great nation such as the United States of America. This was the same as the town of Salem…

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    Arthur Dimmesdale: How Living a Lie Leaves One In The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale begins as the perfect image of a Puritan, a saint in the eyes off all the townspeople. However, Arthur Dimmesdale is nothing but a human, a mere representative of all who are capable of sin, a human who makes mistakes, just like all of the characters in this novel. However, out of all the characters that the reader becomes familiar with in the novel, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale alone completely changes.…

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    Authors use allegory and symbolism in their writing to get a hidden point across and leave it up to the reader’s interpretation. In the playwright The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and the short story, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner depict the themes of good versus evil. Arthur Miller, William Faulkner, and L. Frank Baum used allegory and symbolism to portray that…

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    In the story "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight," the character of Sir Gawain is brought to life by the author whom is unknown. multiple charactors think of him as a nobile knight; he is loyal, honest and most importantly, courteous. during the story, Sir Gwain's persornality is put to the test multiple times during the story. they tell us alot about Gawain's character and the internal issues that he has. I will talk about the multiple places in the poem where we learn about Gawain, either through…

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