Lewis Black

Overview On November 11, 1889, Washington became the 42nd state of the United States. The state capital is Olympia and the current state governor is Jay Robert Inslee. There are approximately seven million people living in Washington. According to several sources, it is the 13th most populated state. The three largest cities are Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. Washington was named in honor of George Washington and is the only U.S. state named after a president. Historical Background Native…

“The Open Window” Vera is a very manipulative and deceitful young girl. I know this because of the way she acts and speaks to the other characters in the story. “In the meantime you must try and put up with me,” is a quote that Vera said in the story that shows how she is manipulative and deceitful. Another way you can infer this about Vera is she likes to lie and tell false stories. ‘The child was staring out through the open window with dazed horror in her eyes,’ is a quote that shows how…

The Crucible is a play based in the witch trial period and it is written by Arthur Miller. The main character is John Proctor. At first, John is seen as unholy and an adulterer, but as time goes on he confronts his sins and those who cause it, a girl named Abby Williams, he says to her “ I’ll cut my hand off before we touch again.”. He also will eventually fight and stand for what is right. In the beginning, John’s wife is sick and he has had relations with Abby in the past. This makes him…

After the Landlady said the No my dear, only you doorbell rung, she gets up and goes to the door. When the Landlady got to the door she saw nobody there, she slowly looked around then, a person jumps out of nowhere. The Landlady jumps out of fright and starts yelling at the person. “Why would you do that?” the Landlady asked. “Its funny to scare people,” the mystery person said. “No, it's not you could have scared me to death literally.” the Landlady said angrily Since the mystery person…

Out of the Silent Planet A Take on Philosophy In Out of the Silent Planet we see the bent, the broken, and the bold and how each of them holds a standard on the value of life. The character Weston was a physicist, obsessed with the idea of living forever. Later in the book Oyarsa (a sort of spirit entity) says that Weston has been “bent by the Bent One”. Bent is the Malecandrian word for bad or evil, meaning that in the sense of an allegory Weston had been corrupted by Satan. Satan being “the…

Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are several battles between opposites. These opposites drive the plot to it’s peak and then to the complex ending. One such opposite is the differences between the moral compasses within each character. Throughout the play, you are introduced to characters that would kill another to save themselves and those that would sacrifice themselves to not live in disgrace of their God. The differences between these characters are constantly clashing,…

written by Arthur Miller, it helps people understand things about the puritans in the city of Salem 1692. Like how they lived and some beliefs that they believed in. It talks a lot about witchcraft. Witchcraft is the practice of magic, especially black magic which is practiced by witches. If a witch was caught practicing witchcraft, they would go to jail. Then the court will decide if you were to receive the death penalty or not. In the book many people were dying and being sent to jail. This…

How does McCarthyism relate and effect The Crucible? The Crucible is a famous play produced by Arthur Miller in 1953, which is about a witch hunt that took place in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, but Arthur Miller talks more about McCarthyism and Communism in 1950s in this play by founding many parallels between the House Un-American Activities Committee”s crusade against supposed communist sympathizers and the seventeenth- century witch-hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. So in fact, although The…

Cruelty in Perspective Contrary to popular belief, I would like to argue that John Proctor is the root of all cruelty in the play The Crucible. His actions towards Elizabeth, Abigail, and even himself reflect how cruelty affects not only the victim but also the perpetrator. Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor, was subject to cruelty in several emotional ways. John had committed the crime of lechery, a sin of ultimate betrayal. Doing so brought out cold emotion and heartache towards…

Abigail Williams is probably the least complex character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Once desired but now spurned by John Proctor, the object of her lust, she uses the community’s fear of witchcraft to tear through every obstacle, including Proctor’s wife, in order to get him to love her again. Although Abigail's actions in the play are definitely understandable, as her motive and background are not complex, they are certainly not excusable. Abigail’s motivation for everything that she does…