Hail Mary

What is thought in a play? According to the definition on CriticaLink, “Thought comprises both the rational processes through which characters come to decisions, as represented in the drama, as well as the values put forward in the form of maxims and proverbs”. (Aristotle)The thought behind the crucible is at the time Arthur Miller is writing this it is the red scare of 1953. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible as a way to teach people about the upcoming hardships they were going to face as a…

Throughout the second half of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Gilgamesh start to work together. Gilgamesh has a personality shift and learns that everything is not about power and starts to build relationships with others. Gilgamesh builds a friendship with Enkidu. A major lesson taught in Gilgamesh is building friendships and how they can affect you. Following, Enkidu started to have weird dreams like the Mesopotamian society thought very strongly about. He dreamed that he would be taken to…

The 4 Works of Frankenstein Throughout the book we discover that the monster that Frankenstein created is actually an intelligent creature capable of reading complex works of literature and understanding them to an extent that they impact his character. These 4 books that the monster has either read or had read aloud in the presence of him include: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Paradise Lost by Milton, Plutarch’s lives by Plutarch, and Ruins of Empire by Volney. To perhaps change his…

Family therapy has been around since the early 20th century, formal development dates to the 1940s and early 1950s when the American Association of Marriage Counselors and other institutions began their work with couples and families. Just as in individual therapy, family therapy has a vast amount of theorist whom have developed models to be used in settings where fellow professionals can understand and help families looking to attend therapy as a unit. Two of those family therapy models are…

According to Ellen Raskin’s recording of the event and excerpt 24 of it specifically, we have found significant information regarding the homicidal maniac who goes by Berthe Erica Crow. For reasons unknown, she was appointed as the cleaning lady in Sunset Towers and was even given an apartment to go with it. In addition, she was even given an opportunity to be involved in In Sam Westing’s Will. In it the 16 heirs are presented with the Westing Game, which has the objective of finding who…

Oh the agony of laying day after day staring at the body of my poor lifeless son. He was murdered in cold blood by those pale, lanky humans that want only to be raved as heroes. What hero would kill my son labeling him the monster. My lair, my den used to be a place of joy. A place my son Grendel and I would feast and tell tales of our many adventures. Our adventures, once approached together, then more for the enjoyment of Grendel as I aged, were the reason that life was abundant and…

According to Robert Martin’s critical essay on The Crucible, Arthur Miller found in records that between June and September of 1692, nineteen men and women were hanged for witchcraft, and fifty five confessed that they were witches. In history and in the play, Reverend Parris begins to think that his daughter, Betty, is ill because she and Abigail Williams have been influenced by witches. Parris fears the fact that this might ruin his reputation if his enemies were to find out that there was…

Oedipus the King set himself up for an outlandish life. Had he not botched a bunch of situations, his future would have been exceptional. I believe that someone's fate is determined by their choices and decisions that they give rise to. Oedipus let his emotions, and his selfish mind endanger and corrupt himself, his family, and his city. First off, Oedipus is more concerned for himself than his people. "For who knows, tomorrow this self same murderer may turn his bloody hands on me.…

were going on during Mary Shelley’s lifetime, and some that are happening today. I plan to compare the scientific advancements back then to the advancements of today. I plan to talk about what the masses thought about these advancements and experiments, if they even knew about them at all. I am going to explain why I think that science and medicine were more terrifying then than it is now. One of my sources is “The Lady and Her Monsters: Real-Life Frankensteins and How Mary Shelley’s…

John Proctor and Abigail Williams from sixty and eleven, respectively, to thirty-five and seventeen, enabling the plot line of an affair between the two. Proctor and his wife Elizabeth ran an inn as well as a farm, but Miller eliminates this detail. Proctor’s friend Giles Corey was actually pressed to death a month after Proctor’s execution, however, Miller juxtaposes his death and Proctor’s. So finally Miller chose to omit the fact that Proctor had a son who was also tortured during the witch…