Daniel Keyes

In arthur miller's the crucible, a play about the salem witchcraft trials, the character of John proctor is portrayed as a God fearing and honest man. In the play, appears to be the protagonist in the story, and he is presented as a round character who encounters drastic conflict and change in his actions. Although, Proctor is portrayed as an evil man, there are explanations behind his ways. In a sense, Miller leaves it to the reader to question what drives john to commit adultery. Of…

Chiropractic Compliance Interview and Presentation For my chiropractic compliance interview and presentation, I interviewed my first Chiropractor and preceptor doctor, Dr. Rick Elbert. Dr. Elbert or Dr. Rick to many friends and patients, is known throughout the country as an expert in the Gonstead Chiropractic Technique. He is a graduate from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport and has been a chiropractor for 39 years. Dr. Elbert opened his first office in Ames Iowa in 1978. He then…

Puritans. Many associate puritans as having very strict religious morals and ideas. To the society of today, their ideas may seem outrageous. However these ideals were very normal in the puritan time period. John Proctor is a character who best exemplifies puritan ideals in The Crucible because, he is an honest, hardworking man. In The Crucible, John Proctor is portrayed as a hardworking farmer who lives in Salem. His wife-Elizabeth Proctor- says “ My husband is a good and righteous man. He is…

There are clearly static and dynamic characters in the play. A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not go through important change in the course of the story, remaining almost basically the same at the end as he or she was at the beginning. An dynamic character, is one that does go through an important change in the course of the story See John would not leave with Abigail shows that his love for his wife and faith in Godhas grown throughout the play. When the trials first…

Fifty years ago, on April 18, 1946, Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's color barrier with a characteristic bang, homing and scoring four runs in a historic first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers' top farm team.In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible wanted to show a version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism the is the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism . But instead of seeing people that have…

When man and woman were created, the idea was to be equal among each other. However, as the world evolved so did women. Women developed into various sizes, colors and personalities. It’s the personality of women that made the world interesting by the design of stereotyping. A stereotype is defining someone in a particular group or class as either positive or negative that’s not necessarily true. For example, women can be defined as classy, intelligent, independent, gold diggers,…

Tragedy affects people in all different ways, for some it can cause dramatic changes in their lives. Arthur Miller, the author of “The Crucible” believes that a tragic hero is a person who stands up for their own personal dignity and goes against the crowd. In the play John proctor is a tragic hero. His actions show that when a person is being pushed to their limit, it causes them to change their personality from a passive person to an assertive person. In turn, this can be seen as a good thing…

John Proctor, The Tragic Truth The Crucible, a tragic and engaging story about witchcraft and treachery by Arthur Miller, is where we are introduced to some of the cruelest and worst mistakes ever made in American history. While we are informed of the numerous accusations being given through the town about witches, we learn of the ulterior motives of the accusers, and eventually are taught the truth that they are falsifying these accusations just to save themselves and gain money and land for…

Harriet Beecher Stowe is a common household name. On any given season of Jeopardy, she could be the answer at least twice. I learned about her in school, heard about her in the media, and yet I never read anything she had written. When I saw her name listed in an anthology of world drama I bought, I added the work to the list of plays I needed to read. I’m certainly not sorry I finally read her most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The play has clear themes that are timeless and universal, which…

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, many of the characters were adapted or changed in order to better entertain the audience. For some the changes involved their name, age, story, or quite possibly their outcome. As for Rebecca Nurse, most of her fictional story remained true to her actual life. Rebecca was considered one of the most holy and wise women in Salem, but unfortunately she was eventually accused of witchcraft. The story of Rebecca Nurse is a very interesting, devastating series of…