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    The Crucible Character Essay Sometimes it takes a blind man to see what is hiding in plain sight. In the book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, the reader sees how easily mass hysteria spreads throughout Salem when young girls accuse fellow neighbors of witchcraft. John Proctor serves as the story's main character whose decisions affect himself just as much as the novel. Throughout the story, John demonstrates his traits as well as conflict and growth as he comes to terms with his…

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    The overall, intention behind this shot is to allude to not only the sinister element of the preacher but also the innocence that Rachel harbors in her home. In having the lighting come from outside, it represents the preachers intentions of murder to “leak” into the innocent home of the children. The surreal element of this use of unnatural composition in the scene demonstrates a constraint for realism in not limiting the connection between the children’s fate and the mothers, unless the…

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    None of the characters in the novel are trying to hurt Janie. From their point of view, they believe that they are helping her, even though their actions lead her to feel isolated, unhappy, and miserable. In the second chapter of Zora Hurston’s Novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s grandmother forces Janie to marry a man she does not love and is the exact opposite of what she wants in a future husband. In the heat of Janie’s protests, Granny slaps Janie as hard as she can manage to…

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    Ignorance is living a comfortable life with eyes shut down, it is a subject that has been depicted in both stories Bliss and Marriage à la Mode that through their ignorance and materialism awful realizations conflicted the main characters. In Bliss where a young married couples lack intimacy and connections whose concerns revolves around their modernity, reality have hit them with a shocking affair. In Marriage à la mode where a life changing decision is being postponed for temporary amusements…

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    The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

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    Austin captures in the book Elizabeth as the strong independent person who can stand by herself in terms to find love instead money like what her mother wants. She showed this point when Collins propose to her because Collins is the only male heir close to Bennet family so after Mr.…

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    INTRODUCTION. The Age of Innocence is one of the most famous novels of Edith Warton since it won the Pulitzer in 1921. It is placed in 1870 old New York. It explores its society, its conventionalisms and its rigid system in which everything has an order and a purpose. We are introduced to a love triangle which will show us a society that fears scandals more than feelings. Trough the three main characters, Edith Wharton portrays a society she knows well, and that eventually would have to flee.…

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    The play, “The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller starts off with an unconscious girl named Betty Parris, and her distraught father. The situation that led to this outcome started a whole pandemonium which was known as The Salem Witch Trials. A few centuries later, a similar issue called McCarthyism would come up, and yet again, destroy people’s lives. In the Salem trials, however, innocent people were killed, and there was one main man to directly blame for those lost lives: (Judge) Thomas Danforth.…

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    Jhumpa Lahiri’s book The Namesake, whose central theme is the immigrant experience, is a beautifully written novel. One may certainly expect this from Lahiri. She is highly educated, possessing three Master’s degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Studies between Literature and the Arts ( Britannica 2017). She has a deep personal connection with the recurring themes and topics of migration, identity, and immigration that permeate her books. While being interviewed for the April…

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    In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller has fear , hysteria , and revenge . In this play Abigail is a evil & flat static character who gets revenge at people in the play but does it in the worst way & she doesn’t feel bad for her actions . Abigail is evil throughout the whole story . At this point in the story Paris is now talking Abigail which is his niece , he is talking to Abigail about what he seen in the woods & she is denying all alligations she is dishonest with her uncle Paris. “ I…

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