people over an issue that is happening in the mind but not in reality. When hysteria sets into a group‚ those who have become "infected" find that their lives are thrown into chaos and ruin. Epidemic hysteria was found evident in the lives of the characters in The Crucible. The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ is a play that retells the events of the Salem Witch Trials. By looking at those "infected" by hysteria in The Crucible and the facts drawn from other outbreaks in a journal by Leslie
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Individuality versus Conformity in Miller ’s The Crucible 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
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don’t work on the Sabbath‚ they believe the Gospel‚ they respect the minister’s word like it is God’s‚ and so on. Value is something that is important to the person. Also religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. In The Crucible‚ the message Arthur Miller is trying to say to people about religion is that fear operating in the witchcraft accusations and the tension between the Salem residents one another‚ this misplaced anger steams from old grudges and vengeance. To
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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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ABSTRACT Augmented reality (AR) has been defined by Barfield and Caudell (2001) as a system in which “a participant wears a see-through display (or views video of the real world with an opaque HMD) that allows graphics or text to be projected in the real world.” Other modalities can be included in AR and information can be subtracted from the real world using augmentation. AR is a computer generated‚ interactive‚ three-dimensional environment in which a person is immersed. AR is a
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Americans are obsessed with appearance due to their surroundings and the prevalence of the media in everyday life. Celebrities are idolized and seen as societies version of "perfection". Ways of editing and distorting like photoshop have become prominent in the media. These things shove the idea of perfection in the faces of impressionable Americans because we are so exposed to it. We see perfectly straight‚ white teeth‚ stick thin figures‚ flawless complexion all over magazines and movies. These
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fear or excess. The process of hysteria is initiated by an event which brings fear‚ and will eventually cause social unrest‚ chaos‚ and distrust. This event usually involves a group of people and an issue that concerns the whole community. In the Crucible this can be seen when Abi and the other girls of Salem are found dancing in the woods. The dancing strikes fear of witchcraft‚ and the process of hysteria begins. The American Communist scare in the 1950’s was initiated by the increased popularity
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which provide different viewpoints on the same building‚ the film also makes a strong reference to the aesthetics of video surveillance. At the end‚ we may ask if we are dealing with a film that is borrowing strategies from other media; or with a “reality TV” program that adopts the strategies of surveillance; or with a computer game that heavily relies on cinema. In short‚ is Timecode still cinema or is it already new media? This essay will address one of the key themes which accompanies both the
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Appearance When I was a child‚ I saw people the way I wanted‚ I saw poor people murderers and thieves and saw rich people kind and generous‚ but I didn’t see what was inside them. On the way to New York on the train‚ I was reading my newspaper very calmly. I wanted to go to New York because of a job interview‚ I was really scared and afraid that I wouldn’t get the job‚ and would have been sent home with no job. My mother sent me some cookies‚ they were delicious and I really enjoyed eating them
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“Mirage: An optical effect that is sometimes seen at sea‚ in the desert‚ or over a hot pavement‚ that may have the appearance of a pool of water or a mirror in which distant object are seen inverted‚ and that is caused by the bending or reflection of rays of light by a layer of heated air of varying density.”(Merriarn-Webster’s Medical Dictionary) Imagine yourself walking alone in the desert‚ you haven’t drink any water for a long time‚ you were tired‚ thirsty and exhausted. Suddenly‚ there was
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