Mary Bell

A tragedy depicts a dramatic composition containing a somber theme, generally involving a noble character destined to endure downfall or destruction through a character flaw or conflict. The Crucible, a classical tragedy, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, depicts the Salem witch trials and the havoc they created among the community. People also define a tragedy as a drama which showcases human suffering due to corresponding terrible events. The Crucible adequately subscribes to this definition…

In the story The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the central idea of guilt is powerful on one's decision to confess or not to confess. This concerns confessing to witchcraft and general confessions to save others or to save oneself. The author uses characterization on multiple characters to support this. Such characters include John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor and Rebecca Nurse. John Proctor is put into a strenuous situation where he must try to prove his wife of innocence to witchcraft. Johns wife,…

many times. It is most visible in his speech such as when he tells Mary Warren “I’ll whip the Devil out of you!” (Miller 56). He does this after she angers him by revealing that people in Salem are being accused of witchcraft. Although Proctor could have remained calm and assessed the situation he chose to become violent after hearing something he strongly disagreed with. His harshness leads him to not just try to severely punish Mary by beating her, but also makes him quick to anger. Proctor…

Were socioeconomic tensions responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem? YES Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum believe that the political and economic tensions among the people of Salem, Massachusetts are to blame for the chaos in regards to witchcraft. They compare the events to a dramatic set piece where the town was in a power battle between political members and clergymen with the common folk and famers. Farmers were adamant about not becoming a part of commercial communism, wanting a…

The overall, intention behind this shot is to allude to not only the sinister element of the preacher but also the innocence that Rachel harbors in her home. In having the lighting come from outside, it represents the preachers intentions of murder to “leak” into the innocent home of the children. The surreal element of this use of unnatural composition in the scene demonstrates a constraint for realism in not limiting the connection between the children’s fate and the mothers, unless the…

The Crucible is a play set on the historic events of the Salem Witch trials. The Crucible is only based on the events of these trials and is in fact not completely accurate. Miller alters the story line slightly to give the whirl of events a motive. The motive Miller chose to use was an affair between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. This affair lead to ABigail obsessing over JOhn and resulting in dangerous tactics to get what she wants. This is why Abigail Williams is the one to mostly blame.…

In The Crucible, the Character John Proctor is introduced in the play on page 20. John Proctor is a respected farmer who is in his mid-thirties and portrayed as a sinner. The reason why Proctor is made known to be a sinner, is because in the past he had an affair with his servant Abigail Williams. In the play, The Crucible, author Arthur Miller describes the admirable behavior of John Proctor to reveal a larger message that even if people have made tresspasses in the past, they have the…

Matt Merritt Mrs. Martin English Frankenstein Frankenstein was a gothic romance novel written in 1818 by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley creates many characters with great details using themes and symbols. she associates three themes with her novel. The theme of loneliness, knowledge, and monstrous. the theme monstrous for Frankenstein has been pondered in many minds of who the real monster is, Victor Frankenstein or the real monster himself. Victor Frankenstein is driven by knowledge and his…

Conflict Between a Parental Figure and Their Creation Parents are someone that something else develops out of. By utilizing this loose definition of parenthood, Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley, explores conflict between a parent and a son or daughter in an unconventional way. Victor, in essence an absentee parent, created his monster but then left it to it’s own devices, allowing it to be tortured by society; this development is the main theme in the story itself. First ,Victor…

The Crucible, seen as one of the most exquisitely written plays ever has many interesting parallels to McCarthyism. The Crucible is a hyperbolized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem Witch Trials that went on in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years of 1692 and 1693. The interesting thing about The Crucible is that it was written during the height of the Red Scare. That is why comparisons are able to be drawn between the two subjects. That is also why the word McCarthyism is a…