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According to Robert Martin’s critical essay on The Crucible, Arthur Miller found in records that between June and September of 1692, nineteen men and women were hanged for witchcraft, and fifty five confessed that they were witches. In history and in the play, Reverend Parris begins to think that his daughter, Betty, is ill because she and Abigail Williams have been influenced by witches. Parris fears the fact that this might ruin his reputation if his enemies were to find out that there was…

From Mother, To Son The letter written by Abigail Adams to her son, John Quincy Adams, is meant to promote his continued success as an important virtue for himself and his family, as he takes his voyage to France, in his newly acquired role as an interpreter for matters regarding the US and French governments. While attempting to replenish and ensure her son’s moral in written sentiment, she heavily relies on the usage of appeals, extended metaphors, and diction. Abigail Adams’ letter uses…

Like many countries in the world, England did not grant its citizens to have freedom of religion. Therefore the pilgrims felt discriminated by the England’s government. Ergo, their immediate response was to flee to another country ; however, that did not work out for them as well. In Holland, the country that they fled to, the Pilgrims confronted countless hardships. After that, they had the desire to go to a new place where they saw hope. They hazarded their life and sailed the ship and…

Henry David Thoreau, an American journalist, has lived quite an eccentric lifestyle. He decided to leave the comfort of urbanization and live a solitary life in the woods for two years so that he can become self-sufficient and, in his words, experience everything and anything–and that includes living in the most natural form: away from the cities and farms and depend on nature and nature alone. The answers and enthusiastic revelations he had reached are the result of living without the…

In The Crucible there are many factors that lead to the start of the witch trials, one of the main things was the imperfection of mankind/ human flaws which was a huge theme showed consistently throughout the book. The people of Salem held many flaws some being greedy, lying for their own good, and fear. The whole town of Salem was a greedy community and this was really shown through with Reverand Parris. Many characters in The Crucible also exhibited the flaw of lying for their own good, but…

Bibliocentrism in “The Crucible’s” 1690s Salem Sarthak Bajpai Arthur Miller’s award winning play, “The Crucible”, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, a deeply theocratic and agrarian society during the plays early 1690’s setting. Leading into and after the events of its infamous witch trials, Salem’s bibliocentric nature is shown to constantly influence and drive the motives of its residents. Whereas the book was written to illustrate the effects of a “culture of fear” and “mass hysteria” on…

Are We All Insane? “Why We Crave Horror Movies” is an essay by Stephen King that was in Playboy magazine in 1981. King is trying to convince the audience that everyone is insane to a degree. King’s ethos in horror makes the subject of “Why We Crave Horror Movies” the perfect argument for him to write about. The pathos makes the audience question their own sanity for a moment and helps them understand “like the sick joke, has a dirty job to do” so does the horror movie, “it deliberately…

I see myself in Walden because I have realized, upon reflection, that my conclusions from facing the meanness of life mirror Thoreau’s conclusions in Walden. In “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, Thoreau explains his motives for the unorthodox move to Walden Pond. Thoreau went into the woods to “drive life into a corner”, “live deliberately” and “publish the whole and genuine meanness of it [life]” (74). With these goals in mind, Thoreau entered an environment with obstacles requiring him to…

Bullay shah was a Punjabi Sufi poet humanist and philosopher. His first spiritual teacher was Inayat Ali Qadri. He was born on 1680 Uch shareef . He was died on 1757 in kasur. Bulleh’s massege throught his poetry shows his broad prespective of universality that is much deeper than aperaisal of natural beauty.It has deep roots that reach to the human soul and human heart. Bulley shah was int the muslim world a unique voice. As he addresses mankind ,The concept of self in his focal point…

Thomas Kim #3 Ms. Lin English Honors 10A November 5, 2015 Reverend Hale and Justice If a distorted justice seeks to exist and to disappear in a society, then there must be those who support and oppose it. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Reverend Hale played a key role in both the affirmative and the dissenting sides of the trials by promoting the existing theocratic justice, doubting it later on, and opposing it in the end, which sends a signal to everyone that the theocratic justice is not…