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    According to William Shakespeare “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” People sometimes love the person so much it hurts, and that should be the case in every relationship to show true love. It’s hard to show someone that type of feeling. People should love with all their heart. In Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare, the couple of Benedick and Beatrice is more realistic in terms of today's society than the couple of Claudio and Hero. Beatrice…

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    Is John a good husband? While the relationship between John and the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” can be interpreted different ways, Rula Quawas the author of “A New Woman’s Journey into Insanity; Descent and Return in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” describes John as the narrator’s “jailer, policing every move and forbidding her to affirm her creative self. He denies her an autonomous existence as he tries to reshape her in accordance with all that being a wife/patient entails, including being…

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    Mary Warren is one of the characters that change the most throughout the text due to the specific events that occur around her. At the beginning, she accepts being whipped because they knew that witchery was a hanging error but Abigail’s threats and throwing blame around eventually causes Mary Warren and the other girls to join in on the blame. Mary Warren, however, tries to remain objective to her service family, which is seen when she denies the conviction claims of Elizabeth Proctor, shown…

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    The Crucible: Film Review The Crucible is a film adaptation of a stage drama. Its main characters are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend John Hale, Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Parris, Rebecca and Francis Nurse, and Judge Danforth. It is a story about the Massachusetts village of Salem where a group of girls who fell ill and accusing people of dabbling in witchcraft. It followed a series of people who were falsely accused and were hanged in the gallows. A group of girls gathered in the…

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    In the exhibition “Take an Object” shown at the Museum of Modern Art, many works of art by particular artists featured. One specific work, placed right at the beginning of the exhibit, was by artist Jasper Johns called Flag. Flag is a piece associated with Johns’ theme of repetition in his artworks as well as influenced by personal and historical contexts. Flag was made between 1954-55 with encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood in three panels. The formal aspects combined…

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    Don Pedro Character Foil

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    William shakespeare was one of the most talented playwrighers ever. He has written hundreds of plays one of them being a play about deception and jumping to conclusions called much to do about nothing in the story there are lots of different characters with many different personalities two of the most important being Don John and Don Pedro in much to do about nothing there are character foils, a character foil is two characters that are completely opposite of eachother in my opinion character…

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    struggles and success of John Proctor and Elizabeth’s rapport. Their views of one another change throughout the course of this play because of the events, or occurrences that have taken place. They went through a time of losing trust and not knowing what to believe, mostly Elizabeth. As you read the Crucible you will get a better understanding of their relationship and the struggles they have faced. In the beginning of John and Elizabeth’s rapport there was a period of mistrust. John Proctor…

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    The most notable case of this is Mary Warren in The Crucible because she is the exact embodiment of mob mentality. Originally, Warren was a member of Abigail William’s group, the ones who started the accusations of witchcraft. With the guidance of John Proctor, however, she is questioned by the court running the trials and she admits, “...It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits, and I--I promise, you, Mr. Danforth, I only thought I saw them but I…

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    four-act play, The Crucible. In this play, innocent lives are put on trial when Abigail Williams and her friends accuse the men and women of crimes they did not commit. Three characters that experience the greatest change in the play include John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor and Reverend John Hale. John Proctor is a very-hardworking farmer who is dignified and very cautious. He has had a secretive affair with Abigail Williams. In his first interaction with Abigail, Proctor tries to argue of their…

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    Tragic Hero “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller is a play based on the witch trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play opens with a character named Reverend Parris who finds his daughter Betty Parris, his niece Abigail Williams, and other girls from the village of Salem dancing in the woods. After the girls are discovered, word spreads across the town of their behavior and the sudden illness of Betty, who is found in her bed unable to wake up or speak. Which give off…

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