The Stories of John Cheever

an innocent and unassuming girl. However, it later comes out she has had an affair with a married man named John Proctor and is infatuated with him. That is just the beginning of the conquest of having Proctor for herself because she attempts to kill his wife Elizabeth while lying and manipulating herself out of all accusations leading to the death of 19 innocent people. Throughout the story, she transforms from being an innocent girl to destroying the town from the inside out to avoid being…

Hale’s character at the beginning of the story. He is full of long words and imagined entitlements. But, as the trials commence and gray areas of Salem are revealed, Hale slowly begins to realize that the situation really is as Proctor claims when he says, “I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance…

people for many centuries to write stories and plays based on the event, to tell of the horrible trials the people went through and to compare to modern day conflicts. One play that was wrote based off of the Salem witch trials was “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller published in 1952 to compare the mass hysteria of communism to that…

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship” -Louisa May Alcott. These words describe the adventure, struggles, growth, love, family, and lessons learned in many of Alcott’s books including Little Women. Based off of her own life and family, Alcott exhibits characters and morals that make the reader feel as if they are in the books themselves. Louisa May Alcott was born November 29,1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Alcott was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and…

reputation that permeated our society during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The evolution of John Proctor’s character demonstrates how an arrogant, weak man with a guilty conscience evolves into a heroic martyr that dies to protect his family and to stop the hysteria of witchcraft that is destroying the town and the lives of his friends. Even though the novel’s namesake, a crucible, is not explicitly used in the story, the audience experiences the symbolism of the protagonist’s moral test as…

The Crucible The book, The Crucible, is the history behind the famous Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller, the author, tells the story that revolves around a teen girl named Abigail. Abigail is a seventeen year old who is subjected to the lechery of John Proctor. Abigail believes that someday John is going to leave Elizabeth to be with her. Proctor continues to turn down Abigail’s advances as he struggles to forgive himself. Abigail gets jealous and when she is caught sporting in the woods she…

reputation that permeated our society during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The evolution of John Proctor’s character demonstrates how an arrogant, weak man with a guilty conscience evolves into a heroic martyr that dies to protect his family and to stop the hysteria of witchcraft that is destroying the town and the lives of his friends. Even though the novel’s namesake, a crucible, is not explicitly used in the story, the audience experiences the symbolism of the protagonist’s moral test as…

The lack of harmony shown in Mr. and Mrs. Westcott’s relationship is represented through the faulty tone of the radio. In our diagram, this is shown through the different shades on the scale showing harmony and discord. Immediately marked for its “mistaken sensitivity to discord,” the reactive nature of the radio is mirrored in Mr. and Mrs. Westcott’s conflicting personalities. Jim Westcott, not wanting to waste his youth on slipcovers and other extravagances was an extremely practical man who…

John Proctor is the main character and tries to bring the truth to the judges; the truth being that the “afflicted girls”, lead by Abigail Williams, are just pretending. When said and done, the Salem witch trials were just a giant revenge court, which…

listening to Abigail, she broadcasts it to the town to continue or begin the treacherous trials. In addition, John Proctor begins to do the same thing to Abigail. When John refuses to tell the town of Salem about his affair with Abigail or when he constantly neglects her feelings, she become insecure and spiteful towards the Proctor household. In act II, tension begins to rise between Elizabeth and John Proctor on the basis of the secrecy of the affair: “Because it speaks deceit, and I am…