William Lewis Herndon

The Crucible The Crucible is a movie that stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Bruce Davison, Joan Allen, Rob Campbell, and Robert Breuler. The historic movie takes place in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. The Crucible is a tragedy and allegory. The Crucible is surely a movie for those who love drama. The film begins with Reverend Paris finds his daughter, Betty, with his niece, Abigail Williams, and many of the other girls from town dancing in the woods with his slave, Tituba. His…

Has a story about you ever been twisted? the Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red scare in the Mccarthyism era; in both stories people feared something whether it was witchcraft or communism. they also have people that twist the story to benefit themselves or others, and exaggerated rumors or lies just to help themselves or hurt others. Something as little as fear in people could really be big. Communism in the time period was really bad, people had thought that it was going to…

In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, the reader has fear for the victims who are falsely accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams. The people of Salem and the reader can feel the presence of Abigail Williams even though she is not in Act 2. Further, the kind of influence Abigail Williams has is that she is destructive of the Proctor’s marriage. A way she is destructive is in the Proctor’s marriage: “There is a pause… Her back is turned to him. He turns to her and watches her. A sense of their…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller uses his writing to emphasize how people will manipulate fear in order to obtain power. Abigail Williams is a young girl who finds herself in a socially and sexually oppressive environment; she is on the low rung of society, because she is an orphan and is unmarried. After falling in love with an already married man she is even more powerless, because she cannot love him openly or even get him to acknowledge her. She sees this fear of witches and the…

Normally dancing around the fire isn’t a bad idea, rewind to the 17th century and you’re in for a lot of drama. Depicted first as a play written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible was later developed into a movie in 1996 directed by Nicholas Hytner. The movie portrays a series of events based on true incidents that happened in Salem, Massachusetts 1962 as the Salem witch trials came to be. Starting out with the opening scene, young girls begin to dance around a fire, summoning spirits among those…

The preservation of reputation is the major theme in The Crucible. Arthur Miller writes The Crucible in a way that compares aspects of puritan society to modern life and makes the story relatable. Pointing the finger and shifting the blame is human nature and dates back to Adam and Eve. Everybody has witnessed blame and finger pointing in their lives which is why this story is so relatable. Though still wrong in today's culture, adultery and being accused of witchcraft, are not punishable by…

arts and sciences together in harmony. This manner of thinking was championed by Modernist poet William Carlos Williams in the early part of the early 20th century.…

William Carlos Williams is an imagist poet, who superiorly controls the meaning of his poems, using subtle language manipulations. One poem that shows this in particular is The Young Housewife. This poem is about the time the speaker was driving and sees a young housewife near the curb, calling the ice-man and fish-man to come. He compares her to a dried leaf, which at the end, he crushes with his car. This poem was published in 1916, a time when the world was a misogynistic place. Though the…

About Poet: Denise Levertov was born in the United Kingdom 1923 and died in Washington in 1997. Levertov never received a formal education as a kid, therefore, she was taught by her parents about religion and the art of writing. When Levertov was growing up, she was an agnostic (later converted to Christianity in 1984) and many of her poems talk about religion. Due to her writing style, she was considered to be a “Black Mountain” poet. Black Mountain poets were poets in the 1940s and 1950s that…

Robin Williams was known for being one of the greatest American actors and comedians. Watching Williams either onstage, the television, in his movies, or in one of his serious interviews, just listening and watching the actor is an extraordinary experience. He had a big impact on many people in this world, and many were devastated to see him go. Many memorials were dedicated to him and his death was an American tragedy. Despite the appearance of a successful career, Robin Williams suffered from…