Samuel Parris

Crucible, as characters try to cover up their own flaws with lies, leading to innocent people being hanged and killed. In Salem, most characters have flaws about them that they do not want exposed to society. After Abigail claimed to have told Reverend Parris everything, Betty disagrees; “Betty. You drank blood, Abby! You didn’t tell him that! Abigail.…

Both the short story “The Possibility of Evil” (1965), written by Shirley Jackson, and the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846), written by Edgar Allan Poe, explore the themes of revenge by using a variety of techniques. “The Possibility of Evil” tells the story of an elderly woman manipulating the the town to be the perfect town she wanted, and when when one of the townspeople find out what she had been doing, they cut up her number one prize possession; her roses. “The Cask of…

World Lit draft 1 – Death and The Maiden How does the gun change the role of Paulina Salas in Ariel Dorman’s play ‘Death and the Maiden’? Ariel Dorfman’s ‘Death and The Maiden’ is a play unlike any other. The play takes place in the post dictatorship world of an unnamed country. Dorfman takes us through a story of crime and justice as we learn about the struggle of Paulina Salas. Paulina had been raped a number of years ago by a group of men containing a sadistic doctor whose face she never…

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is revered for accurately telling the story about the events which unfolded in Salem, Massachusetts during 1692. Demirkaya says that The Crucible “… opened at a time when the term witch-hunt was nearly synonymous in the public mind…” (125). The play was published in 1953 during the Red Scare, and as Susan C.W. Abbotson says in her book, Student Companion to Arthur Miller, “It tells the story behind the Salem witch trials of 1692, centering our attention on the effect…

Miayn’s Farm, is a famous short story written by Krishna Prem, dealing with the killing of female child in the ages by gone and the modern times. The story develops a connection between the ancient society and the modern society, and tries to explore how the things have gone from bad to worse. The story develops around Ranoo, who once was a victim of this evil practice, but was saved by a man of morals, Padmanaabh. It also shows that in the times bygone among parents mother was never willing to…

The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, is set in the 1600s, dramatizing the witch trials hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts. In the play, Arthur Miller has demonstrated the role of women in that society through a number of techniques. The actions of women in the play were shown to have outside influences rather than reflect their true nature. Arthur Miller presented the idea that beliefs, expectations and stereotypes had an effect on the behaviour of women. Religion played an important…

They have the right to. When leaving for the courthouse that evening, Reverend Parris almost got struck in the head by a falling dagger, which could have killed him. Now he is afraid to step outside at night because of the danger. “Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house - a dagger clattered to the ground. You cannot hang this sort. There is a danger for me. I dare not step outside at night” (Parris, 80). Fear is natural, but when certain things happen, we can develop an even stronger…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur MIller. It was the Salem witch trials 1692 there was a plethora of thoughts of witchcraft that started with a small group and grew larger. Accusations of the innocent, many times it was people powerful people not just normal towns people but people with wealth that made them be more powerful were not fond of. People not wanting to confess and the large amount of people hanged many of them didn’t want to confess because it was something they didn't do and…

In the convention of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom; Samuel Thomas' momentous presentation, The Midwife's Tale It is 1644, and Parliament's armed forces have ascended against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Indeed, even as the city endures at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson gets to be entangled in an alternate kind of rebellion. Bridget Hodgson is a 30 year old dowager that lives in a middle class home with her servants in York, England. It is 1644 and England is under…

were penalized to death or put in jail. This play solemnly starts to move at the point where many girls from the village were caught dancing half naked in the forest by Reverend Parris, the local minister. After these girls were caught Parris’s daughter was put in a coma like…