One of the most important themes in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is the nature of authority and people who abuse it. In the story‚ authority is determined by the religious status one has in the community and often education plays a role. Nowadays‚ authority is noted by the place you have in society and is also based on education and sometimes wealth. It seems that whenever there is a figure of authority‚ there is always someone abusing the power designated to them. Back in the Puritan times‚ religious
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Pitiful Proctor In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the protagonist‚ John Proctor‚ is a prime example of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is defined as a prideful and well-respected character that goes through an unfortunate downfall. John Proctor embodies all of the traits of the traits of a tragic hero‚ including his respect in the community‚ his pride‚ and his death. John Proctor was a leading figure of the Salem community during The Crucible. “He was the kind of man- powerful of body‚ even tempered
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and the two were intertwined. Exploring classic literature can help illustrate the two-strand rope of human thought‚ especially by studying and interpreting Puritan-era works like The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller‚ and “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards. Although theological ethics are significant motivators towards personal choice in these three works‚ so are humanistic ethics‚ leading to conflict between the two ideas. Throughout
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This story was written by Hemingway in 1933. It details an evening’s interaction between two waiters‚ and their differing perspectives of life. Hemingway uses an old man as a patron to demonstrate the waiter’s philosophies. Hemingway is also visible in the story as the old man‚ someone who society says should be content‚ but has a significant empty feeling inside. What follows is a line-by-line analysis‚ putting emphasis on the philosophies of the waiters. This story focuses on two waiters
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What is the symbolic significance of Warings? Warings is the house that Mr Hooper currently owns in the book I’m the King of the Castle. Warings is a very symbolic place and represents many different things. Some of these include: Hooper’s power‚ Social Class and Isolation‚ all of these I will be mentioning. Warings represents Isolation a great deal in the book. This becomes apparent very early on in the book as it is described as "some distance from any other house." This shows the reader prematurely
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Arthur Miller’s historical play‚ “The Crucible” follows the story of the Salem witch trials. One of the main conflicts of the play was John Proctor’s affair with Abigail Williams‚ an affair which set off the witch trials. While Abigail has many obvious flaws and may be defended‚ her role and the severity of her actions cannot be overlooked. Abigail may not deserve the entirety of the blame‚ she most certainly deserves the consequences of her actions. Abigail fell in love with John during their
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Explore the ways in which Miller makes this a powerful and disturbing moment in the play. Miller makes this meeting between Alfieri and Eddie powerful and disturbing in many ways‚ mainly with the many climaxes when we feel Eddie is going to explode with anger and frustration but Alfieri calms him down with his appeasing words. This extract is a very gripping part of the play because it helps us understand both characters in different lights. The quotation‚ ‘Eddie‚ I want you to listen to me‚’
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Explain How Arthur Miller Uses Act Three As A Dramatic Device To Expose The Rivalries Which Exist In Salem. In 1952‚ Arthur Miller wrote a play entitled‚ ‘The Crucible’. The play is centred on the witch trials that actually took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote about the event as an allegory for McCarthyism which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. McCarthyism was a time of great anti-communist suspicion in the late 1940s and 1950s. The key connections
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How does Miller build tension in Act 1 in A View from the Bridge? The play A View from the Bridge was written by American playwright Arthur Miler in the early 1950’s. The play is set in Red Hook‚ Brooklyn. This is where the ports are near the Brooklyn Bridge that is the gateway to Manhattan. The play is centred on an Italian-American longshoreman– Eddie Carbone. Eddie lives with his wife Beatrice and his niece Catherine who he has developed improper feelings for‚ however his feelings are repressed
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Fear of the superstition of witchery drove the town of Salem into mayhem causing them to hang many of their own‚ whom they feared were witches. This is evident when the people of Salem fear the "workings of the devil" and become suspicious that anything out of the ordinary is witchery led by the devil . Imaginations flared as stories were told of Betty (Parris’s niece) flying‚ even though she was only pretending to be witched. Because of the superstition of witchcraft many people became hysterical
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