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John Hale: A Tragic Hero Arthur Miller’s The Crucible symbolises the events that took place in the 1950s known as the, “Red Scare”. This event is what inspired Miller to write The Crucible. In a creative fashion, this was Miller’s way to criticize the paranoia surrounding the overly conservative American government. Using his greatest weapon, the pen, Miller was able to compose the historical character, John Proctor, in the spitting image of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero (Posses a…

It all started in a small Town called Salem, Massachusetts where many were accused of practicing witchcraft in 1692 which lead to Arthur Miller’s writing of The Crucible. It is simply about a group of girls who begin to accuse several different people of witchcraft in which they are also able to convince the leaders of the community that the Devil is present in Salem. This leads to the killing of nineteen innocent people and one dog. This is very similar to the persecution of communist in the…

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are very well-known for for their cross-country journey, where they met and traveled with Sacagawea, a native American woman from the Shoshone tribe. She acted as a translator and guide for the expedition. They made countless great discoveries, including many native tribes, not all of which were friendly. The group was composed of not just Lewis and Clark, but rather 31 members. Each member had their own unique specialty, such as woodworking or mapmaking, Lewis…

The spring of 1823 would bring a new wave of missionaries to include, William Richards, his wife, and Charles Stewart, with his wife Harriet, and their African companion Betsey Stockton from the Second Company in Boston. These missionaries, along with many westerners, were weary of the Native Hawaiians as viewed in the journal of Betsey Stockton. An excerpt from the first interaction with the natives on April 24, 1823, defined the Hawaiian men who greeted the ship as “half man and half…

Sacagawea Was Sacagawea an important member of Lewis and Clark’s discovery team? Without her, Lewis and Clark might have gotten lost and died. Lewis and Clark just led the discovery team. Some people believe she isn’t as important as she really was. I highly disagree though, she was very important to the team of discovery. First, she knew the land very well. “She began to recognize the mountains in the distance.” If she didn’t recognize them, that would have been a sure sign that they were…

“Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.” The Crucible, by Arthur Miller talks about how witchcraft was before. As well as how many people were accused by being a witch. Especially women because they thought that women had too much time for themselves that they decided to do or start something dangerous. In The Crucible, the characters of Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams can be compared and contrasted through Witchcraft, Love, and Lies. To begin with, Elizabeth was…

Who Is The Blame? In Arthur miller’s The Crucible, Abigail Williams was the cause of the Salem Witch Trials. Took place at Salem village, Massachusetts in 1692, the guilt of this is Abigail Williams and she is eighteen years old, lived with her uncle and she had an affair with John Proctor. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, miller demonstrate that is was Abigail flaws – Dishonest, jealously, and lust that led him to be most responsible for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. That…

The character I chose to do my essay on is Rev. Parris. He was the Reverend of Salem and was one of the first people to start blaming witchcraft. He is untrustworthy, mischievous, and a liar. Those three things will be shown and conveyed by the end of the story. In The Crucible, Rev. Parris lies about a lot of things which is to help him and to help others. One example of this is, “And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the…

Since the beginning of modern society, the world has focused on one characteristic to define society: power. There has been a power struggle over who has it, how they obtained it, and how they execute it. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the struggle for power is evident in the hysteria which overwhelmed Salem, Massachusetts during the 17th century witch hunt. Abigail Williams is an orphaned, ruthless teenager struggling for an identity and control in the religious, child-oppressing society…

The Crucible is a play that focuses on the awfulness of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behaviors that can result from dark desires and secret agendas. A jealous girl, Abigail Williams, is accused anyone and everyone of witchcraft, including her secret lover’s wife. These accused citizens were given unfair trials, and many of them were hanged without questioning. David Calvert is a man who is believed to be Jon Venables, the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger when in fact, he is not.…