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Zach Bugg Mr. Carroll English 3 21 November 2014 The Crucible/McCarthyism Allegory The Crucible took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the Spring of 1692. The play The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1953. In McCarthyism, people feared communism. The Soviet Union was growing in power and the threat of a nuclear holocaust was on the forefront of American minds. So Joseph McCarthy went around accusing anyone that he thought could be a communist. In The Crucible, the girls went around…

Throughout the Crucible John Proctor continuously struggles to be a good person in the eyes of himself, and God due to this he constantly changes and evolves as a character. In act one of the Crucible John Proctor is known as a good man who is respected throughout Salem, but privately he was going through multiple difficulties. One problem he had was Abigail. Proctor had an affair with Abigail, and was trying to move on so that he could fix his relationship with his wife. The affair impacted…

The One That Got Away “You never know how much you love someone until you watch them love someone else” (Pinterest). In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams falls in love with John Proctor after being his maid but, for John to love her back, death would be forced upon his wife. Since Abigail Williams is motivated by her love for John Proctor, her decision to sabotage John and Elizabeth’s marriage creates death for John and many others by the end of the play. Abigail’s love…

The in-depth analysis of the MiG-21 and the discovery of its strengths and weakness led to air superiority during the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars. The exploitation of strengths and weakness of the MiG-21 by the IAF allowed a less prominent aircraft, the Dassault Mirage III, to gain a competitive edge on the more advanced MiG-21. This aircraft was regarded as the most advanced…

In the “Crucible”by Arthur Miller, the setting of the play is Salem Massachusetts in 1692.Reverend Parris is a very ambitious man that only cares about himself.The most important thing to him is his reputation.According to the text “We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house."This proves that Reverend Parris only cares about his reputation and job” He uses his daughter to accuse people whose property he covets.Reverend Parris wants to be a very…

Thesis: The director’s intentions of The Crucible, were to present a slight unrealistic explanation of the Puritan society and culture mainly to attract his audience. This statement can be proven through the plot, characters, and soundtrack. Through the plot of The Crucible, it shows a main idea of fear, a fear of one’s reputation that corrupts the characters to act in a selfish way. In the beginning of the film, it starts off with a young girl, Betty, lying in her bed unable to move.…

As each year approaches the transition between January and February, the holiday season seems to die down in America, with New Year parties following Thanksgiving and Christmas to complete the holiday trifecta. However, as some people clean up the confetti from the New Year countdown, Chinese and Vietnamese American families anxiously prepare for one of the most important cultural festivals from their homeland – Lunar New Year. From preparing auspicious New Year foods, to buying red envelopes…

This has been another good week. I have and will continue to attend the Interdisciplinary Treatment Plan Meetings each morning on the High Intensive Psychiatry Unit (HIPU). I have completed Suicide Safety Plans (SSP) on clients and have meet with them to discuss their suicidality. I have continued to make welfare check calls to clients who have been flagged as high risk for suicide and document any interactions with clients in the VA’s tracking system (CPRS). I have observed the Recreational…

In his play, The Crucible, published in 1953 writer Arthur Miller used the time period of the Salem Witch trials to illustrate the conflict during the Red Scare, led by Joseph McCarthy. In his modern-day parable, Miller emphasized the theme of Jealousy and resentment through is dramatization of various conflicts within the Salem community, miller opened twentieth century eyes to the witch hunt conducted by senator Joe McCarthy. Using the motifs of power struggles accusations, and confessions,…

Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The noose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led”. The Crucible by Arthur Miller adequately reinforces this statement. A mob knows no justice and the townspeople of Salem had an agenda of vengeance. Throughout the play characters such as Elizabeth and Rebecca Nurse were wrongly accused of witchcraft without the proper evidence. In the midst of chaos, it was clear that power had no official title and anyone could be a victim of its…