Lewis Carroll

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller many characters are responsible for the outcome of the story. The Crucible is about three teenage girls who are caught dancing in the woods. Dancing was not allowed in Salem in 1692 and they knew that they would be punished. To avoid their punishment they accuse others of making them do it by using witchcraft. Innocent people are hanged because of the lie they made. This starts the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail Williams, one of the girls in the woods, is most…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller uses his writing to emphasize how people will manipulate fear in order to obtain power. Abigail Williams is a young girl who finds herself in a socially and sexually oppressive environment; she is on the low rung of society, because she is an orphan and is unmarried. After falling in love with an already married man she is even more powerless, because she cannot love him openly or even get him to acknowledge her. She sees this fear of witches and the…

Normally dancing around the fire isn’t a bad idea, rewind to the 17th century and you’re in for a lot of drama. Depicted first as a play written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible was later developed into a movie in 1996 directed by Nicholas Hytner. The movie portrays a series of events based on true incidents that happened in Salem, Massachusetts 1962 as the Salem witch trials came to be. Starting out with the opening scene, young girls begin to dance around a fire, summoning spirits among those…

The preservation of reputation is the major theme in The Crucible. Arthur Miller writes The Crucible in a way that compares aspects of puritan society to modern life and makes the story relatable. Pointing the finger and shifting the blame is human nature and dates back to Adam and Eve. Everybody has witnessed blame and finger pointing in their lives which is why this story is so relatable. Though still wrong in today's culture, adultery and being accused of witchcraft, are not punishable by…

innocent people are hanged. Abby Williams can be considered one of the, if not the only, guilty parties. The entire scandal was set in motion by her actions. Instead of staying in Salem and “facing the music”, so to speak, Abby and her friend, Mercy Lewis, skip town (126). The Puritans believed that if an individual sinned, the individual deserved to be punished. Abby lied about her neighbors being witches, thus violating the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness”. However, Abby…

“ I’m a good girl! She is evil!...Life is formed of many different things, and with many different people with strange ways you never expect to see out of them. One good example would be “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller.It is a magnificient play as a village is going through a questionable act that has taken place because of what a group of girls were caught doing. A major character named Abigail Williams is a very round character with multiple traits, as she encounters many different…

It all started when my boss/co-worker, President Jefferson,asked me a favor. He had recently purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of our country. Jefferson asked me to lead a group of men through the new land and discover its value and content. I gladly accepted the challenge. I am always in for a adventure. I also heard word of a reward! A few days after I wrote to my childhood friend, William Clark, asking him to join me in leading the exciting…

Out of the silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’ overlooked space trilogy, it is a small book yet has a lot of information in it. In the opening work, we’re introduces to Dr. Ransom who falls into the clutches of two nefarious scientists, Weston and Devine. These men have constructed a space vessel, and intend to travel to the planet Malacandra, to hand Ransom over to the aliens who live there. After they land Ransom flees his human captors, but crosses paths with the same aliens he…

As the oar hit the water they began to hear something. It sounded like thumping or like the earth was shaking, suddenly hundreds of people which seemed like and army came out of nowhere. Half of the people went to one side and and the other half to the other side, when only one was left in the middle to speak. She demanded to know where they came from, who they were, and what they wanted from them. They replied that they came from England, and that they were travelers seeking new land. They…

In the Crucible, Abigail is portrayed as the villian, using her wits and countless lies to deceive the town into thinking that witchcraft is taking place in the small town of salem. Little did she know that she would be the cause of dozens of deaths, all because she was afraid to get in trouble. Her fear drove her to continue on with her fabricated stories, even after her beloved John Procter confronted her. Why Throughout the story abigail is constantly lying, wearing a false persona of a…