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    There has been a lot of people who cheat on their wives or husbands and it ends up with a terrible result. In Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible, John Proctor and Abigail Williams have an affair and this creates a lot of problems and ends up in a tragic result in the play. In this story, John Proctor decides to break up his affair with Abigail Williams, and she leads the other girls in the practicing of witchcraft to demand the death of Elizabeth. When people find out about the witchcraft, the…

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    Abigail Williams Crucible

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    The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a finely nuanced play about the Salem witch trials, and crowd hysteria. The main characters include John Proctor, an upstanding man in the community; Abigail Williams, a prime witness and accuser of witches; Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife and an accused witch; and many more characters. These characters are mentioned outside of the play itself, in the Act 2, Scene 2. Arthur Miller had originally annexed this scene, and reading The Crucible with and without it…

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    Why Is John Proctor Bad

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    Good Always Can Come From Bad Witches, death, superstition, and betrayal have surprisingly affected John Proctor for the better. In the book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, it shows the excitement and superstition of the events that changes John Proctor. After Reverend Parris finds teenage girls dancing and participating in witchcraft in the woods, Abigail, along with some other girls, start to accuse innocent townspeople of witchcraft to hide their mistakes and avoid their consequences.…

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    Watching innocent people get accused of being a Communist by a fool irked a man named Arthur Miller. Something had to be done so Miller wrote The Crucible which paralleled his situation with the Salem Witch Trials. The Crucible is a play in which some girls stir up trouble among the town with rumors of witchcraft. Fools in the town believed the girls and add to the rumors, leading the town of Salem to a disastrous outcome. Proverbs 27:21-22 says, "The crucible for silver in the furnace for gold,…

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    What is a women’s place in the world so many cultures have a different view of what a woman’s value is but quiet clearly it is always under a man. We have explored two movies which show the exploitation of women and how little their lives mean in the face of the oppressors which in these movies where a group of men. “What do we do when those with all of the power are hurting those with none”. In both movies the oppressors are able to keep all of their power through others submitting giving…

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    During the 1940s powerful chemicals, such as DDT were used to remove crop-destroying insects. In Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure”, she argues that harmful chemicals are not only killing insects but also modifying its surroundings(604, par.1). She develops this argument using poignant diction, explaining that the environment take milleniums to adjust and that human pollution is advancing further than the Earth can keep up thus causing irreversible damages to the environment. Carson’s…

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    The effect of the talk between Sarah and Tituba was that both Sarah and Tituba confessed to witchcraft and so they had to keep their “act” up because they know Herrick is going to jail. Miller included it because it was his way of knowing who was lying and who wasn't lying. Parris changes because he is usually the one to protect his reputation, but this time he didn't try to protect it. The news does not affect the court's decision because they don't want to actually admit that this whole time…

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    Tension In The Crucible

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    The Salem Witch Trials was unlike any other event ever seen in history before; including massive murders, trials, hearings and series of persecution. With this in mind, playwright Arthur Miller wrote a theatrical piece that portrays the heating tension in the town of Salem. While there is tension in the air in the town of Salem, a girl by the name of Abigail Williams cries witchcraft. Everyone in the town is deluded by Abigail except the people who know the truth. In The Crucible, by Arthur…

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    Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the author depicts underlying literary elements to help enhance the reader’s understanding of dissimilar characters. During the novel, two main characters are followed in their search for their American Dream. Lennie, who is portrayed as powerful, unintelligent man, is only sought after as a good workman. George, who is depicted as Lennie’s companion and caretaker, sometimes is seen as burdened by Lennie’s unintelligible demand.…

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    with Proctor she wants Elizabeth gone. Since everyone believes her when she accuses someone of being a witch therefore all she has to do is blame Elizabeth for something. If she was not so selfish she would not have set up Elizabeth by sending Mary Warren in with a poppet. “conjures me? Why no sir, I am entirely myself, I think, let you ask Susanna Walcott. She saw me sewing it in court or better still ask, Abby sat beside me when I made it” (Miller, 76). She did not even tell her friend what…

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