a good choice because it has a double meaning. A crucible is a situation in which someone or something is severely tested. It also is a container used in the process of heating and melting metals to separate the valuable metals from the not so valuable. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ Abigail is most responsible for the chaotic witchcraft situation by the end of act 1 in Salem‚ Massachusetts. In act 1 of Arthur Miller’s The crucible‚ Abigail is the most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria
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Fear stimulates a plethora characters within the play. A few of the characters within the play whose judgments are influenced by fear are John Proctor‚ Abigail Williams‚ and Mary Warren. Fear is a major driving force for the characters. It forces the characters to act upon emotions rather than logical thinking. Franklin Delano Roosevelt the 32nd President of the United States said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” in his inauguration on March 4‚ 1933. John Proctor is a well-respected
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The phrase “honesty is the best policy‚” applies to Arthur Miller’s history-based drama‚ The Crucible‚ in a variety of ways. The accusations throughout the story build on lie after lie after lie from those trying to protect their own name‚ thus putting the whole town in a state of confusion and chaos. Nobody in the small town of Salem‚ Massachusetts knows whom to trust anymore‚ after all of the false allegations made. There are three characters in particular in the story that‚ if they had told the
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Arthur Miller wrote the play The Crucible in response to the red scare of the 1950’s‚ in which he was was condemned for disrespect & disapproval of the United States Congress for being unsuccessful in naming numerous individuals who had attended meetings with him. In a bid to not only secure his career as a journalist & play writer and also to alert the American people against the government misinformation & propaganda that were headed their way. The characters in the play are faced with the same
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Abigail Smith Adams was born in Weymouth‚ Massachusetts on November 11‚ 1744 to the parents of William Smith‚ Congregationalist minister‚ and Elizabeth Quincy Smith. She was the second of five children (one brother and three sisters). Due to her perpetual childhood illnesses‚ she lacked a formal education; however‚ with the help of her fellow family members and available educational resources‚ she became an intelligent and prominent leader in the colonial American society. As third cousins Abigail
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A crucible is defined as a severe test or ordeal a person goes through. That being said several characters in the play “The Crucible” by Author Miller are put through these test‚ but some more than others. The characters in this play that are put through the hardest trials are John Proctor‚ Reverend Hale‚ and Elizabeth Proctor. Elizabeth has to go through the test of trying to convince her husband that he must decide for himself what he wants to do with him life weather he wants to give his to
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described in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was inspired directly by McCarthyism when he was writing The Crucible. The many claims of witchcraft made by characters in The Crucible--lacking sufficient evidence--share great similarities with the “witch hunts” of the McCarthy Era. The first great example of McCarthyism in The Crucible appears in Act One when Reverend Parris first becomes a major character in the tragedy in his confrontational interaction with Abigail. On pages 915-16
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Abigail lies throughout the entire play. She has Tituba cast a spell to kill Elizabeth but in order to avoid detection of this she lies saying she saw all these people with the devil; "I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!" She also states before these lies "I want to open myself!" The word ’open’ means ’entirely honest; Ironically‚ nothing thatshe says is actually truthful. She lies in court by pretending she see’s things that aren’t actually there in hope to get others
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ways in which ‘The Crucible’ and Equus’ follow when religious faith turns into religious mania. How far does the two text attempt to present a more positive attitude to a life lived in faith? The plays ‘Equus’ and ‘The Crucible’ both explore the positive aspects of religion and its damaging qualities. The critic Mitchel Hay suggests that ‘The parental‚ adolescent and professional conflicts exhibited by Peter Shaffer’s Equus need not be disruptive. They can be fed into a crucible of growth.’ The plays
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the struggles of Abigail Williams‚ the teenage protagonist‚ because of her lack of guidance. Abigail lacks morals because of her lack of parents and people to love her. Abigail creates hysteria among the people of Salem when she accuses others of witchcraft. This hysteria‚ in the novel‚ parallels to the 1950’s Red Scare. Government officials‚ during the 1950’s Red Scare‚ accused people of communist activity. Like the government during this time‚ Abigail fears. Nobody loves Abigail‚ which gets her
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