Mary Doria Russell

The novel, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, tells a fictional story based on the events of the Salem Witch Trials. In the book, a group of young girls begin to accuse others of witchcraft and dealing with the devil. Their false accusations lead to mass hysteria and the dramatic deaths of 19 innocents. Although there were many characters who contributed to the chaos, it is obvious that Abigail Williams is most at fault since, from the beginning, she had the most control of the situation and used it…

“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” With a group of children facing independent survival, William Golding challenges many readers to decipher what the “Beast” is in his novel, Lord of the Flies. As a matter of fact, he expresses that the beast is fear. According to Document A, entitled, “The terrors of the unknown,” it states,”...there are no comforting mothers to dispel the terrors of the unknown. They externalize these fears into the figure of a beast.” This illustrates that…

Because of Her If you don’t control your mind someone else will. It is very easy to get manipulated by other people. People who have read The Crucible would say Abigail Williams is the most loathsome in this story because she evilly persuades the girls to do what she is doing. When Parris found the girls in the wood dancing they knew they were in inscrutable trouble. The first thing Abigail did was accused another person for her actions “She made me do it…” (Miller, 1154), by that statement she…

the witch trials began Marry Warren was an accuser of witchcraft. Marry Warren is an individual who as drawn into the injustice of witch trials. Her views change when Goody Proctor is accused of witch craft. Marry Warren gave Goody Proctor a poppet, “Mary Warren: ‘I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.’” (Page 1056) the poppet is later to be used against Goody Proctor and make her be a person accused of witchcraft. When…

Character commonality: Mary Warren from The Crucible and Jacob from A Simple Plan are similar in the way that they are both controlled by fear throughout the course of the novels. Quote #1 from “TC”: “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other…

Have you ever been so involved in discovering the truth about something that you let public opinion cloud your judgement? One of the protagonists in The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, was brought down by listening to the people around him instead of looking at the facts right under his nose. Reverend Hale was brought to Salem to investigate witchcraft, and he is motivated to find justice. His flaws of being easily manipulated, lack of clarity with morals, and overconfidence have led…

There is a battleline between good and evil that is never separated and this battleline runs through the hearts of mankind. Robots on the other hand, do not have emotions, a heart or feelings. Robots are just programmed and then commanded to do things that humans are too lazy to do or physically cannot do. A malfunction with these robots can turn into devastating consequences that can result into something as worse as the elimination of mankind. A researcher creates a super-intelligent AI that…

Victor grave robs, steals, and cheats in order obtain the materials necessary to make the experiment. These materials are human body parts. This is the first inclination the reader gets that Victor is no longer the man he was once thought to be. Throughout the whole processes Victor excludes himself from the world. Being in solitude changes the ethics of some people. They forget what human contact is like, what it means to care for someone of something. Most importantly, being lonely and in…

The Crucible Final Essay In the novella of The Crucible by Arthur Miller we all have gone through experiences that dealt with stress and pressure. The experience that I have gone through recently is learning how to drive. During this time I had a lot of anxiety and I felt as if I were under lots of pressure to get my license. A lot of my friends have already gotten theirs. I felt it was time for me to get mine. The people who I needed to help me was my parents. My dad was the first one to help…

What Caused The Salem Witch Trials There were three causes Conflict between young girls and older woman,lying teenagers,economic and political power divide between two sides of town.One possiable causecould be the conflict between young girls and older woman,witch involved age, gender, and maritual status. According to the accusers chart on document B there were twenty-nine out of thirty-four people were females twenty-three of twenty-nine were under twenty-one years old. Another possible…