Lewis Hine

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,…

Puritans were people with a strong religious belief they always try to follow their religion and stay away as far as possible from the devil. The Crucible is a book 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,…

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…

Imagery, poetic language, and the use of personification and other devices all serve one common purpose; to make the reader truly believe that they are living in what they are reading. Authors attempt to create portal doors in their writing for a sense of escape to an alternate world. Arthur Miller, an American playwright, essayist, and prominent twentieth century figure, devised one of the most infamous philosophical and allegorical “portal door” through the power of words and his direct use of…

Culpability in The Crucible The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, possesses a strong theme of guilt. This leitmotif has the ability to make people act out both against each other and within themselves. This play exemplifies guilt from three main characters: John Proctor, Giles Corey, and Mary Warren. The play also portrays the impact each of these three characters all had on the mass hysteria occurring in Salem, Massachusetts, at the time. The centrality of the play follows John…

What makes a good man? Good men are fair and are hardworking. Good men are also honest, and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others. They are honorable until death, and do whatever it takes to spread the truth. That being said, John Proctor, of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is without a doubt a good individual. He is a hardworking and truthful man, he sacrifices himself for the sake of others, restoring honor in the family name, and he does whatever it takes to spread the truth…