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    will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me” (76). John is not going to let the court take his wife's soul for what he has done and wants Mary Warren to confess to the jury that her and the other girls have been lying about the things they have said to seen. After John had yelled at Mary Warren in front of the whole village Mary then lied and called John a wizard and forced her to confess to the jury.…

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    shows a polarizing change in the character of Mary Warren. This is shown when she changes her opinions based on the situations that she is in which shows the reader how much of a selfish person she is. Mary Warren is a masked mannequin manipulated by the mass. Although she remains the same throughout the play, she is a very polarized character that uses dynamic tactics in order to put herself in the best position. For example, in Act I Mary Warren strictly claims that she is not involved in the…

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    Jealousy is to blame for the tragedy in Salem as evidenced by Abigail’s love interest, Goody Putnam’s babies, and Thomas Putnam’s land desires. In The Crucible, jealousy is responsible for the tragedy in Salem proven by Abigail’s love for John Proctor. Throughout the play, Abigail has had an excessive love for John Proctor, even though he is a married man. Abigail once yelled at Proctor by saying, “[Elizabeth] is blackening my name in the village...She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend…

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    be a sign that they are lying because she was sleeping until the attention was taken off of her. “Abby, stop it!” (pg.116) Mary Warren was forced by John Proctor to go the court and tell Danforth that the girls are lying to save his wife. The girls notice that Marry Warren is telling Danforth the truth about them so the girls turn on her and start accusing Marry Warren of witchcraft. Abigail is willing to get anyone killed to save herself. The people that were getting killed was innocent and she…

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    Your Honesty with everything shows who you truly are. In the crucible there are many different conflicts happening about the same topic. Such as As between Elizabeth and John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Also, the conflict between Tituba and everyone else is part of the whole story. Tituba is Reverend Perris’s slave, she practices what the puritans call “black magic”. When one of the girls named Betty, doesn't wake up one day they start blaming it on Tituba for taking the girls to dance and…

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    Experiences shared between Abby & John changed their relationship exponentially for the worse, & from their newly-formed relationship came forth the beginning of the Salem Witch trials. When we look at “the Crucible” by Arthur Miller, we see how much confusion is occurring in Salem at the time, & the amount of destruction being dealt by the girls. Although a lot of it had to do with religious beliefs, it's believed that the pre-existing relationships with people had played a major role. The…

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    Fanaticism played a significant role in The Crucible, and multiple characters showed the obsessive trait throughout the course of the play. It appeared in a variety of different forms, especially in the characters Reverend John Hale and Reverend Parris. Their fanatical actions resulted in the deaths of others, and created chaos throughout the town of Salem. If these characters had not jumped to conclusions abruptly, the Salem Witch Trials would have not occurred. Parris and Hale immediately…

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    Isaac Braden was a demon. He hated being summoned but it was a fact of life. If someone learned his true demon name, they could invoke him and once a ritual had been completed, he would be bound to their command for a twenty four hour period. On the All Hollow's Eve, Celtic festival Samhain, Isaac is summoned to a satanic ritual. As the ritual states, he has to choose one blood sacrifice from the three naked men hanging in the underground cave. Only one of them holds Isaac's interest. As much…

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    Although Abigail does not work she the devil, she still is motivated by her own demons of jealousy. The Salem Witch Trials are a product of theocratic repression that spawned an ideology in which if something wasn’t good, it was automatically evil. This manifests in Abigail as jealousy towards Elizabeth because she is married to John Proctor, whom Abigail has been previously involved with in an illicit affair. Since Abigail was the niece of Reverend Parris,she assumed herself to not be of…

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    Daisy to some may seem like just a victim, but she is guilty not only morally, but also legally. She was a deceiving, lovely figure as well as a “hit-and-run killer” (324). In the article Oxymoron in “The Great Gatsby” the author says, “Some...think Tom and Myrtle’s affair is cheap and disgusting, Jay’s and Daisy’s romantic, but both are the same morally and legally...” (324). Daisy cheated on her husband and she also killed a person. The reason she married Tom was for his money, but once she…

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