John Hurt

In the play the The Crucibles, Abigail Williams is one of the main characters in the play who does deserve the blame for her faults and mischievous actions. She is the antagonist of the story by manipulating the people around her and in the end hurts her self physically and mentally. Abigail is seventeen years old and lives with her uncle Reverend Parris and cousin Betty Parris, the other main characters in the play. To be brief, there has been activity of witchcraft in the town of Salem…

stabs herself with a needle in order to cast doubt on Elizabeth. Abigail realizes that if Elizabeth is convicted of witchcraft, then she will more-than-likely be executed as well. Meaning that if Elizabeth is eliminated from the picture, it would leave John available for Abigail. All of these scandals show that there is a continuous trail of lies present. When Reverend Parris’s attempted to establish a cover-up to preserve his reputation, his lie quickly led to a chain of other lies. Had someone…

John Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, Steinbeck dropped out of one of the most elite colleges and worked as a laborer before he became a successful and well known writer. He wrote immensely about the economic problems faced by the hard working and lower class during the Great Depression. He was also a very successful American writer, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Grapes of Wrath, which was written in 1939, that…

Throughout philosophy, there have been many different philosophers with their ideas of how the topic and ideas should be. Two philosophers that have shown this many times are Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Both of them have their ideas and thoughts on the state of nature. What is the state of nature like, and what motives this philosopher to form these ideas, forms or social contracts? In my opinion, I believe that one philosopher have a better point being made, to make sure that there are…

In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, there is one friendship that stands out throughout the novel. George Milton and Lennie Small display a picture of what friendship looks like to everyone they come across throughout the story. Their friendship has strengths and weaknesses. It also came at a cost to each of them while being friendless came at a different cost. George and Lennie show the readers that friendship is costly and can cause hurt but is worth it. George and Lennie became friends…

two merchant workers who travel together from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Lennie has a mental disability which leaves him with memory loss and a lack of control over his actions. At the end of the book, Lennie kills Curley’s wife accidentally after she found him alone and let him touch her hair. Curley, the boss’s son, is possessive over her and he is livid. He does not like Lennie, so this was the perfect opportunity to hurt him in an unthinkable way. Lennie ran away trying to escape the…

to remain objective to her service family, which is seen when she denies the conviction claims of Elizabeth Proctor, shown when she tells Elizabeth she was “somewhat mentioned. But...said...never see no sign [Elizabeth] ever sent [her] spirit out to hurt no one, and seeing I(Mary Warren) do live so closely with [her], they dismissed it.” However, Mary Warren was fine with…

At the beginning of the play Proctor was known as a good man in the town of salem. But by the end of the play his life is turned upside down. He is a very proud man but he knows what the right thing to do when it comes to saving his wife. John proctor is an honest man with a few secrets but he’s still an honest man. He is a very proud man with honor to his name. He cares a lot about his reputation, The image he gives off to the rest of the town in the most important to him until he has to risk…

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke had different views on human nature that affected their views on government. Thomas Hobbes lived from 1588 to 1679. He was a philosopher who wrote the book “Leviathan.” In the late 1630s, he became linked with the royalists in the dispute between the English king and the English parliament. He lived through the English Civil War, which took place from 1642-1651. The chaos of the English Civil War influenced Thomas Hobbes to think that society needed a strong…

because that character has fury and dislikes many things. The Crucible involves many characters which makes the story more interesting and hooks the reader in, but there is one character that makes many changes through the novel. Throughout the play John Proctor is the heart of the plot. Being involved in the plot so much leads to many changes of personality. Proctor goes from an irresponsible adulterer to someone who truly wants redemption and makes things right by his wife whom he has wronged…