Samuel Doe

In Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape, an older man celebrates his sixty-ninth birthday in his office, but listens to past recordings of himself from thirty years ago. Beckett emphasizes eloquently described movements and symbolism of everyday objects to reveal how resolutions from the past tends to turn into hypocrisy in the future. Beckett uses the movements of Krapp to describe the tiredness and resentment that he has for himself, yet they are broken promises he commits. He…

Important Characters: • Reverend Parris: He is the minister of Salem’s church. Reverend Parris is hysteric, and depressed man. Many people dislike him, and that makes him very concerned. • Betty Parris: She is Reverend Parris’s daughter. She experiences strange symptoms after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness starts the first rumors of witchcraft. • Tituba: She is Reverend Parris’s slave from Barbados. She agrees to perform voodoo to Abigail’s…

Arthur Miller illustrates how fear of losing one’s reputation can trigger poor judgement and dishonest actions, at the same time, losing sight of reality can change the truth and cause paranoia in anyones world. When that happens hysteria is inevitable. In the Puritan society Reverend Parris holds a high stature. As a minister he holds power and being one with the Lord also carries its own baggage along with it. Parris says to Abigail, “...I have fought here three long years to bend these…

truly cares what other people think of them. This morsel of vanity shows itself quite often. I saw more examples of this in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The first, and perhaps the most prominent illustration of behaving vainly, was the Reverend Samuel Parris. In the beginning of the play, the focus was on Reverend Parris’ daughter Betty. She was lying on a bed, unresponsive and sickly, and wasn’t able to acknowledge the presence of anyone around her. Reverend Parris was anxious, but not…

After the success of the French and Indian War, Britain now focused their attention to the New World. Wanting to recover from the recent war debt, the British government had started issuing policies to the colonies by 1763, all the way until 1776. These new policies had influenced the colonists socially, politically, and economically, contributing to their rising opposition and commitment to republican ideals. The imperial policies placed on Americans had socially brought together the…

different way human tend to follow that pattern. This was occurring even back in biblical times. In 1 Samuel 8:4 the elders of Israel came to Samuel requesting for a king for the fact that Samuel was getting old in age and other nations around them had kings (Stamps and Huffman 2007). God has Samuel warn the people about what the king would do if they were to have one. “But the people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No!’ they said. ‘We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other…

In fact, the way in which Elizabeth Bowen delineates her disoriented national identity becomes the most alluring aspect in the novel. The two family homes, Holme Dene and Mount Morris serve as key representers for London and Ireland respectively. Stella’s visit to Mrs. Kelways house provides her the motivation to shift her thoughts from ignorance to knowledge about Robert. Mount Morris, on the other hand, restores Stella’s vision of her heritage but she quickly realizes that she could never live…

Throughout history, minority groups such as women and blacks have often been treated as “monstrous” outcasts. In The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, women are depicted as witches. In Coleman’s In the Beginning there was White Zombie, we see that first-hand accounts of Haitian culture written by a white man created the image of the zombie. When studying these accounts, we notice that when depicting minorities as monsters, the oppressor seems to…

The Town of Salem during 1692 was in an uproar over Witchcraft. Many people were accused of Witchcraft resulting in many court trials and hangings. Accusations were made with hate and jealousy rather than actual evidence of Witchcraft. Arthur Miller’s play written in 1953 called The Crucible focuses on this event. The author intends for the themes of hysteria, reputation and power showcased in the play to reflect upon current events in 1953. Throughout 1692, a mass hysteria was sweeping through…

How the American Revolution Could Have Been Avoided After the Seven Years War, the American colonists were prideful. Underneath that pride, however, was a feeling that they were not British. This new feeling of nationalism fueled their hatred for the British. When the British started holding the colonists in an iron fist, the colonists started to lose their temper and respect towards the British. The lack of representation and publishing of ridiculous acts led the colonists to feel like they did…