Experiences shape relationships such as shown the Crucible when John Proctor and Abby have an affair. This was a bad experience that made John’s marriage with Elizabeth difficult because of him committing adultery. It tells you how if someone is unfaithful to you, things will not be the same, there will be sad or awkward moments and if you love each other enough you will work through it and not make the same mistakes again. At times during the story the Crucible John finds himself frustrated, frustrated…
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John Proctor and His Motives in The Crucible Proctor was predestined to die. It was inevitable. Reading through The Crucible by Arthur Miller, one might see how this is true. The Crucible is formatted as a play, but the emotional aspects are described well enough to be a novel. As hero of this novel, Proctor must overcome his obstacles, and defeat the villain. The only way for these things to happen while Proctor is in jail is for him to die without confessing. To find this element, a reader truly…
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entering the U.S. after a mass shooting in California. There are many parallels with trumps actions and using fear to The Crucible. In the rest of this paper you're going to read about a few of these parallels to the Crucible and how Trump went ran for office. One parallel is that fear plays a big factor in the election of trump, just like in the Salem witch trials that the Crucible is based on. Trump used some of the terrorist groups such as ISIS and attacks to convince people that we have much to fear…
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Lies in the Crucible For many years, people have questioned whether telling a “white” lie is appropriate and harmless in certain situations. At first glance, it may seem like telling a miniscule, innocent lie is tolerable when trying to get out of a depraved situation. People have failed to notice, however, that even the slightest lie can have immense consequences. Unless we change our interpretation of lying, we will continue to have trouble understanding how the paramount decision is never lying…
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religious and believed, but hated witchcraft. The story called The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was based out of salem and was a hysteria story. Everyone was basically either panicing or blaming someone else. Theres many different types of tone throughout the book called The Crucible. While reading and noticing many different tones, the three main ones that stuck out to me were, Justice, Jealousy, and Accusatory. In The Crucible, the people were hysteria,in a mass panic, and i noticed some different…
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happened. Basically scapegoating is when you blame something bad on someone who is innocent and did not do the bad thing. Abigail Williams is known for throwing people under the bus. Abby was madly in love with John Proctor. But that was a big issue because Proctor was married and adultery is against the Ten Commandments. Abby loved causing trouble and one time she went into the woods with her friends and they were dancing around. Dancing was against the rules. Mary Warren, a friend of Abby’s, made a poppet…
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Walt Disney once said, “Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk--especially in new undertakings.” In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor demonstrates Walt Disney’s famous saying. This famous courage quote relates how John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Giles Corey exemplify courage and how that connects to Walt Disney’s famous words. Abigail Williams portrays weakness over the course of the play specifically…
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Fear is a powerful force that alters the perception that people have on life. It is seen many times throughout history, whether it is the Red Scare or the Salem Witch Trials, that fear is detrimental to a society. In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, it follows the people of Salem and their journey through this heartbreaking time period. The Red Scare was very similar to the Salem Witch Trials, in fact it is an allegory to it. The Red Scare is about government officials accusing others about…
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Cassidy Nehring Mrs. Takemoto English II 2 November 2017 Deception in The Crucible HOOK. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is based off of The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to 1693. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings that dealt with people accused of witchcraft. Witchcraft was common because people of that time did not have the advanced technology that we have nowadays to prove that witchcraft is inaccurate. When accused, people would commonly deceive and accuse other people to get themselves…
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Not So Pure Puritans The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in colonial Massachusett, which is known for being full of Puritans. Puritans are known for being a morally good group of people, or so most think. The town of Salem is full of Puritan hypocrites who lie, commit adultery, and even send innocent people to death. No one is safe from sin in this town. The Crucible has many themes, but Hypocrisy is one of the biggest and most important. The theme of Hypocrisy is like the foundation of the…
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