In relativization to the The Crucible and it’s violent mass hysteria is that word crucible means, “ a place or situation that forces people to change or make difficult decision”. Most relevant definition because the medical situation in Salem means, “a vessel of a very refractory material (as porcelain) used for melting and calcining a substance that requires a high degree of heat” (merriam-webster). Which makes sense because an example of crucible would be a cauldron because it has the same purpose…
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The genre represented in Act Four of The Crucible is a drama play. The dialect in Act Four was mainly based around lots of tension and a very intense drama. The various spelling in Act Four was the townspeople speaking with one another, only on big, strong, faithful community knowing how to be able to speak with one another throughout Act Four. The author in Act Four of the play used characterization, the example of characterization is when Judge Danforth characterizes Reverend…
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the Crucible was written by Arthur Miller during an era known as McCarthyism. McCarthyism was a search, or “witch hunt”, led by Senator Joe McCarthy, for Communists in the United States Government during the nineteen-fifties. This “witch hunt” indirectly shed light upon “...one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history”: The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a drama of the true story which took place during the seventeenth century. In The Crucible…
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cloud their judgement and thus their actions. The problem was already there before Abigail and the other girls were spotted dancing in the forest attempting to conjure spirits which let to the hysteria. The people were already against one another for example, the Putnam family greeds over lands as well as their loss children, Ann Putnam was suspicious of Rebecca Nurse who was her midwife, Abigail wanting to be Proctor wife so she wants to get rid of Elizabeth who was Proctor wife then, so all these personal…
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Since the first appearance of mankind humans have used fear as a tool to survive; fear tells people when to run away, fear tells people to be aware of our surroundings to avoid danger, and fear tells people not to repeat harmful mistakes. But just like anything, too much of a good thing can be detrimental, and too much fear is detrimental to society as a whole. When primitive humans began to appear on the African savannas humans used fear to keep them alive,now fear is not used to keep humans alive…
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and spread to Salem, infecting the minds of mans. Eventually, Salem society was the perfect recipe and outlet for disaster, in which puritans used accusations of witchcraft to seek retribution for personal tensions, rivalries and grudges. In the play "The Crucible" there is a lot of tensions, grudges, and personal rivalries that played a big role in the witch trial hysteria that took place in Salem. The witch trial convictions were very known during the time. Some of the people town felt like they…
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evenly distributed . This was from the effect of groups having higher standards in governing, infrastructures, and wealth compared to others. Colonialism then began to affect human rights and tensions in society started to expand. Human rights were often handled differently toward select groups of people. The Crucible by Arthor Miller and the autobiography Interesting Narrative of Oladah Equiano both exemplify the harsh effects on human rights in the early colonial times. In the autobiography of Oladah…
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front, severe consequences were the result, such as being placed in a pillory or branded for life. Out of reasons for self-preservation, many chose to deceive the general public of their motivations. This trait was highlighted within the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, as well as the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel…
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Crucible 1. The judicial system in The Crucible allows a lot of things in court that would be considered barbaric in our modern court of law. Their contenders were not allowed judges or legal counsel, there was not a jury, and spectral evidence was allowed as damning evidence of witchery. All of which have been remedied in our modern judicial process. The flawed process behind the damnation of ‘witches’ during the Salem witch trials was mostly shown through the use of spectral evidence, which…
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Most people do not know, but ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller is an allegory. An allegory is a story with an obvious meaning but if you look deeper into it, like every other story there is another meaning, a meaning that is very important to learn about. In this case, the obvious meaning is the Salem witch-hunt and the hidden meaning is McCarthyism. I also read an excerpt on ‘The McCarthy Era’, by Myra Immell. McCarthyism started in the early 1950’s and it was governmental accusations that had no…
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