America is praised to be a place that is fair and just. However, no country is perfect and one of the more unfavorable aspects of America is a problem that has been a problem that goes back to the 1600s. The issue Americans face are within the legal systems and are caused by the biases of judges and jurors across American courts. America is not alone in this problem, but for a first world country this issue is more common than it should be. In America’s modern day society there are many cases of discrimination based on physical appearances in court, as there were in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, which needs to be stopped, because it is in violation of Civil Rights Act of 1964.…
Alexandra Rodriguez, Sydnie Sephton Mrs. Philipose Humanities 1 - 1st 20 February 2018 Prompt #2 Ethan seemed moral in the beginning, but slowly got out of it by cheating on his wife with her cousin, Mattie. He seemed to spend as much time with her as possible, and got close to her whenever he had the opportunity to do so. Zenobia showed to be sickly more frequently throughout the years she spent married to Ethan. She went out for days at times, just to go to various doctors. He gave her enough by providing the money she needed (among other human necessities), yet never more than that.…
What methods does Arthur Miller use to establish the character of Proctor in Act 1 of the Crucible?…
The Crucible was a very well written play, and gave many themes throughout its entirety. A huge theme was Integrity and Courage. People needed integrity and courage to make it through with their goodness back in the times of witch trials, and people still need it today just so their goodness survives. Many people showed their integrity and courage, but some stood above the rest. Giles Corey died a free man, John Hale stood up to the courts corruption, and then ended up leaving, Rebecca Nurse did not confess, and John Procter died with his name and goodness.…
Several characters show heroism in Arthur Miller’s book the crucible but the one that shows the most heroism is John Procter. He is the one that causes the witch trials to start because he was having an affair with Abigail. Abigail wants him to leave his wife for her. And when he refuses to leave his wife for Abigail. Abigail gets hurt and will do anything to be with John Procter. One of the first places where John Procter shows heroism is when he tells Abigail “Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut of my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again” (Miller 18). He’s telling Abigail that’s he is done with her and that he wants nothing to do with her anymore. John also shows heroism when he stands up to hail and the…
Everywhere you go; people are always trying to uphold their reputation. They will make others lives worse or even in jeopardy just to make sure people don’t look at them differently. To make sure their reputation isn’t compromised. In the play The Crucible, Arthur miller expresses how important ones reputation is in a small community. He shows how they will defend their reputations because it is what keeps their social status in place. John Proctor and Reverend Hale are characters who make an attempt to maintain their reputations in their time of crisis.…
American author Arthur Miller wrote a play in 1953 named the Crucible. The Crucible was portrayed as the Salem witch trials that took place in 1692 and 1693 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The play was written as a milked version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism was when the Government put people who had been accused of being communist on the Blacklist. Miller was accused himself in 1956 as being a communist and refused to name names from who he had seen in the few meetings he attended.(THIS HAS ALL BEEN FACT). In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, Hysteria is used frequently and is to be the theme of the play that Miller is showing.(THESIS). In the village of Salem the first accusation that was made led to many others because of the result. Bridget Bishop was the first women accused of witchcraft and then later hung. Two girls did not think they were causing any harm when they decided to mess around with people’s minds and pretending to have strange fits. Many people could only think of one thing that was the cause, which was witchcraft. Later it was decided by a doctor that is was a source of witchcraft for he could not see anything wrong and assumed. As time…
Hysteria overshadowed logic and enabled the townspeople to think that their neighbors were acting out senseless and unbelievable crimes like dealing with the devil & murdering babies. In The Crucible, the townsfolk accepted and became active in the hysterical outbreak not only out of religious loyalty, but also because it gave them a chance to express repressed attitudes & to act on long-held grudges. The most obvious case was Abigail, who used the circumstances to call out Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft and have her sent to jail. However, many others used the hysteria to their advantage as well. Reverend Parris strengthened his position within the village, no matter how brief, by making scapegoats of people like John Proctor who questioned his authority. The wealthy & ambitious Thomas Putnam gained revenge on Francis Nurse by convicting Rebecca, Francis’s wife, of the uncanny deaths of Ann Putnam’s babies. In the end, hysteria thrived only because people benefited from it. It postponed the principles of daily life and allowed the acting out of every dark motive & hateful urge under the pretense of justice. The witch trials were central to the action of The Crucible, & dramatic accusations/ confessions filled the play even beyond the confines of the courtroom. In the first act, even before the hysteria began, we saw Parris accuse Abigail of dishonoring him, and he then made a series of accusations against his parishioners. Giles Corey and Proctor responded in turn, & Putnam soon joined in, creating chaos even before Reverend Hale entered the scene. The entire witch trial system thrived on accusations along with hysteria. Proctor attempted to break the cycle with a confession of his own, when he admits to the affair with Abigail, but his confession is beat by the accusation of the act of dealing with the devil against him, which in turn demanded a confession. Proctor’s decision at the end of the play to die rather than confess to a sin that he…
play is set at a time when a womans place was in the kitchen and…
I've been a detective in Bath and the areas around it for a very long time and there really hasn't been a story like the one i'm about to tell you. Recently I was called to Bath after reports from the branch manager who was expecting Billy, and he never showed to the meeting. I really hope that I can find the LandLady to be not guilty and It was all a misunderstanding. Billy’s last whereabouts were in the Bed and Breakfast in Bath. We are hoping that he left for a business trip and forgot to mail his family. If we do find Billy to be dead, we will have to take a big step into investigating the LandLady.…
The theocratic town of Salem, in the late 1600s, not only advocated conformity but stifled individuality. The play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, illustrates the conflict between conformity and individuality. Salem, a town dependent on the unity and participation, understandably teaches people from a young age to recognize the needs of the community as greater than the needs of an individual. As any unit needs something to hold it all together, Salem forces unity and social conformity through religion. Coincidentally, religion in Salem acts as the judicial system as well, making it particularly hard for individuals to rebel against the practices of the church. Therefor all members of the community follow the religious rules. The people live in fear of the forceful church that prosecutes all dissenters and the threat of hell cause the community of blind followers to not change or progress. Yet as shown in The Crucible, [that]even one brave man can stand up for change and lead the community into (IN) a better direction. John Proctor, a previously unpretentious man, chooses to risk his life and fight for change, and even a community so devoted to conformity learns to respect him as an individual. By analyzing the communal benefits of individuality and the faults of conformity in Salem as depicted in The Crucible, we can see that although [the structure of] conformity has value, the lack of proper leadership, constrictive (restrictive or oppressive would be better word choices) social pressure, and an uncompromising court system corrupt the conformist regime.…
“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.” This quote by V.S Niapaul demonstrates the idea that people limit themselves. They limit themselves to there own ideas. They don’t believe in themselves. Mary Warren in The Crucible demonstrates this by not believing in herself and settling for being a “follower”. Mary however, has a sincere sense of loyalty to John Proctor her employer. Mary Warren goes through an inner battle of peer pressure and her loyalty to Proctor. Mary’s yearning to fit in and loyalty to Proctor develops the theme that peer pressure easily overcomes loyalty.…
Fear often breeds superstitions, but more often, fear makes a person bend to the authority and make desperate choices. In Author Miller's 1953 play, The Crucible, Miller comments on the human's natural tendency to be susceptible to fear and the compromises people make in fear of their own life. The play was well- liked by the public and later in 1996, under director Nicholas Hytner, was made into a film that is still being reviewed today. With the improvement of theatrical technology, the cinematography and other dramatic elements of the film not only made 1692 Salem seem real and close, but also convey the fear, that Miller wanted to express, and the power of the pressure from the expectations of the society to audience members.…
“The Setting that is most accessible to the reader is the one that is grounded in realism.”…
Do you know what a morality play is? If you ask this question to people, most people will have little to no knowledge of what a morality play really is. A morality play is simple to understand. It is really in the name. A morality play is a play that has a conflict and you see the right and wrong of what is happening throughout the play and then later in the play it presents good character or it could present good conduct.…