Daniel Day-Lewis

Young love does exist, love is confusing, no matter what you age is. It’s a distraction from what we really want. It makes people lie, cheat themselves to get what they want. The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. The book starts out with girls dancing around a fire, Abigail one of the girls who drank chicken blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctors wife. John and Abby had a past, from there past abby still likes John. Since Abigail is…

Author Arthur Miller implemented the element of heroism into the play The Crucible through John Proctor. When first introduced to Proctor one of the things learned about him is that he is married to one of the most respected women in Salem, Elizabeth Proctor. After learning this we also find out that around 8 months ago, Proctor committed Adultery with the 17 year old Abigail. Throughout the story we are able to see that Proctor is changing to better himself and his wife, he shows he will never…

In The Crucible, the author Arthur Miller creates a motif of resentment through displaying the strict ideas of morality in the Puritan society, the downsides of the darkness of human behavior, and the sense of intrusiveness among the Salem community. The sense of resentment among the members of the Salem village was in one way a direct derivation from their strict ideas of morality. In Salem, theocracy played a massive role in determining how the people viewed their Puritan religion, and…

tightly sealed that its removal isn’t a thought in the self-righteous mind of justice. Those that strive to move against the current of the common mindset are met with life-shattering resistance. Logic can’t be put to work if it never sees the light of day. During the initial witch trials that take place within Danforth’s court, truth struggles to the surface. In the midst of the hearing of Giles Corey’s…

Abigail/1702 shows what happened ten years after The Crucible took place. The play created an experience that was dark, introspective, and mystical. It was dark because the space was pitch black at various points. Also, much of the production was focused on Abigail being the reason twenty people died. When the Devil visited Abigail and told her that she had to fulfill her promise, a sinister moment was created as she had no choice but to say goodbye and go with him. The play was introspective…

The Crucible is a play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. At the beginning of the play, a group of girls go dancing in the woods with a black slave names, Tituba. Caught by Reverend Parris, he makes the girls leave. Shortly after that the girls ring is broken up by Parris. Shortly after the group is disbanded, Betty, Parris’s daughter becomes very ill. She goes into a coma and is unresponsive. When this happens, suspicion of witchcraft are sparked in the town. Parris calls Reverend…

some of the Jews captive to Babylon. One of the captive was a teenager by the name of Daniel. The name Daniel means, “God my judge”. Daniel was a prophet and apocalyptic of God, living during the time of 605BC – 530BC; this was also the same time as Ezra, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. As you read and study Ezra, Ezekiel and Jeremiah you will find that some of the prophecies and actions are the same. The book of Daniel displays a…

If you were a sports fan in Hartford the day of my birth you had probably traveled to Dell Rapids the night before to see the West Central Boys basketball team. The Trojans, who defeated the Quarriers 76-68, were lead by Tucker Hansen, who had 23 points (“West Central 76, Dell Rapids 68” 4C). Also from around the Sioux Empire the police were searching for the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian. The driver of truck hit a man from behind on 31st Street North and between Cliff and Van Eps…

Introduction In 605 B.C during Jehoiakim’s reign, the Babylonian’s king Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel and his friends as captives when he besieged Jerusalem. Daniel was taken captive because he fit in the standards, which the king was searching for: young men, good-looking and smart. During the time of captivity, Daniel, the author of the book of the Bible with the same name , writes about the dreams, visions and situations he passed in the course of the captivity. Indeed Daniel’s actions…

The perception of our emotions, and the world we live in isn’t all that it seems. Daniel Gilbert, a professor of social psychology at Harvard has an inquisitive view of the relationship between perceived happiness, and reality. In the chapter “Immune to Reality” from his book Stumbling on Happiness, Gilbert reasons that our psychological immune system causes us to be self-deceiving and as a result, causing us to have the tendency to cook the facts of situations that can affect our happiness.…