Chester A. Arthur

mature. Early on Gawain is revealed to be the youngest of the Knights of the Round Table, a youth himself, and like many children his age, Gawain looks to others for their opinions on how to live his life. Gawain looks to his respectable uncle, King Arthur, as a role model for his own growth. When the man he so admires is threatened he acts out in a moment of rash judgement typical of one his age. Gawain, in his lack of wisdom, essentially exchanges his own life for King Arthur’s. This poor and…

A crucible is by definition “a transformative experience through which an individual comes to a new or an altered sense of identity”. After much reflection, I chose to discuss my first assignment as a platoon leader in the radio company in the of Transmission. Through my modest career I had enjoyed a variety of leadership positions within the Army; and I learned a lot from each position and gained a lot of experience that shaped my leadership personality, however, my first assignment was the…

The Crucible is about a small group of teen girls in Salem, Massachusetts. The girls created a potion, with the help of a black slave, Tituba, to catch young men. They are forced to tell lies that the Devil had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. One of the girls was infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. During the trials, those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not…

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, came to fruition through several key historical and personal events; three of which include the rise of McCarthyism, Miller’s own trial, and the growth of domestic hysteria in America. Miller wrote The Crucible in defiance of “modern day witch hunts” (Newell n.pag.). However, Miller would need to gain the support of the American people to make a change. To begin, during the time in which The Crucible was written, an ideology know as McCarthyism was on the…

Arthur evidently struggles dealing with the impossibility of truth, an inherent post-modern theme that fondly parallels the resistance people deploy over the lack of an unchanging objective reality. He becomes deeply perplexed about the role of his father’s forgery in his life for a multitude of contradicting reasons. The idea that we have a text mediated subjectivity is a concept Arthur permeates throughout The Tragedy of Arthur, as he inevitably becomes the text despite his resistance to it.…

Lying comes naturally because it keeps telling others the truth, knowing the relationship between two people may suffer. In The Crucible written in 1953 by Arthur Miller, characters are prone to lie not just to themselves, but also to their own friends. The Salem Witch Trials prosecuted around eighty people to death for suspecting to be in contact with the Devil. Miller displays the major consequence for lying which results in death at the end. Characters in The Crucible lie in hopes of saving…

The Crucible when people who had no connection with witches or any association with witchcraft were being falsely accused of preforming it. The book and the history from the 1950’s have many parallels, John Proctor can be seen as a representation of Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible and the Hollywood community feared communism like the people of Salem feared witchcraft. In the book The Crucible, many people were falsely accused of performing witchcraft and put on…

Morte Darthur, Malory covers a lengthy period of time with few words through the narratives of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Throughout the text, Malory does not waste words on smooth transitions, instead bluntly marking the beginning and end of each tale. These blunt and straightforward transitions are a classic trait of Malory’s writings. Though Malory draws from the French tales of Arthur and his knights, Malory does not choose to approach the narrative in the poetic format as…

I Am Mordred is a novel based on Mordred who is the son of King Arthur of Camelot and his sister, Queen Morgause of Lothian. After Mordred was born, King Arthur found out Mordred was fated, by Merlin, to kill him. With this knowledge, King Arthur makes a decree to have all babies set out in coracles to be killed. The coracle Mordred was in was found by a fisherman and Mordred was the only baby alive among the many he was sharing the coracle with. They take him in and when he is only 6, a woman…

The Crucible is a play based on the 17th century Salem witch hunts. It is also a parable for the events in McCarthy’s era. The play is about people who are wrongly accused of helping the devil. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller and was first performed in 1953, New York. It is set in a puritanical society where the people believe in hard work and little luxury. Their life is based around God, the bible and the ‘Ten Commandments.’ Pride and integrity are extremely important to them.…