Samuel Alito

The theme of The Crucible is leading towards to keep a good reputation you must have self-respect and respect others. Many people were accused in Salem of witchcraft. Some of those people confessed to witchcraft to save their lives. While few refused to confess to keeping their name "respected.” Proctor says "you will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! Yuu will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me.” He says this as a way to stand up to Danforth…

The Crucible follows the story of the Salem witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts during 1692. The society of Salem values the aspects of sameness and conformity. This society does not encourage difference, and anyone or anything that is seen to be different arouses bad suspicions within the community. Currently, there has been talks about the existence of Salem witches and some people in the society believe this to be true, and want to prove it. These suspicions further increase…

Sacrifice is giving up something valuable of yours for someone else. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller witchcraft accusations were on the rise and Abigail Williams was the main accuser. As more and more women were accused, people started to get suspicious. Accusing people started to become a way to get back at someone that you have a grudge against. John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor were suspicious of the accusations and knew some things that the court was not aware of. Giles Corey was also…

onto when reading The Fall, readers are, in a sense, forced to accept the idea of a subjective reality. No Man’s Land, a play written by Harold Pinter, further explores the theme of reality and it’s relationship to existentialism. Two men in their sixties, Hirst and Spooner, are talking in Hirst’s living room. They have just met at a bar. They are both drinking, which is evident from the somewhat choppy dialogue. The encounter seems choppy as well. At first the two men seem like strangers but…

In the Salem witch trials 200 people were accused of witchcraft and twenty people were actually executed for it. The play that is the basis of the essay is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during these Salem witch trials. One of the main characters that this play is centered around, John Proctor, a farmer in his middle thirties. As a morally ambiguous character in The Crucible, John Proctor had both honorable and disgraceful actions that contributed to the work as a whole. John Proctor has…

Evaluating the Intertwining of First Native Culture and Indigenous Literature: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse In English literature a formalist movement in the mid 20th century that emphasized the relationship between a text’s idea and its form - known as New Criticism - continues to strongly influence modern academic writing. New Criticism specifies that the object of study ought to be the text itself, not the response or the motivation of its author or readers. Rarely do New Criticism texts…

A man’s name holds more than just his identity; it also holds his character. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, three prominent men were concerned with how their names defined them within their town. In the chaotic period of the Salem Witch Trials, Reverend Parris wanted to uphold his holy reputation as well as the church’s. John Proctor, a very influential man in the town, was determined to keep his family name from being blackened in the courts despite his own sins. During these trying times,…

Tension were built between British authorities and the colonists a lot of years before the outbreak of the American Revolution. Attempts by the British government to raise income by taxing the colonies met with warmed dissent among numerous colonists, who disdained their absence of representation in Parliament and requested an indistinguishable rights from other British subjects. Pioneer protection prompted brutality in 1770, when British warriors opened fire on a crowd of colonists,…

Ghost Hunters The classic ghost story is shared around a campfire with frightened children, stuffing s’mores in their mouths, or on a candlelight tour around an old city (usually for a fee). When we tell ghost stories, we enter deep time, a thing so infinitely interconnected and complex that it becomes difficult to separate fact from fiction and past from present. Ghost stories emerge out of ignorance, revolve around dramatic irony and distortion, and of course, linger somewhere in the haze…

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a story depicting events that occurred during the Salem Witch Trials. There were many characters in the story that deserves some of the blame for what took place. Many people were thrown in jail for being accused of witchcraft. Some people were hung because they did not confess. The trust between one person and another was lost. Friendships ended with betrayal so they could benefit themselves. The town of Salem and its people were ruined by the events…