Throughout the crucible social status is shown as the most important thing to any man or women in the town of Salem‚ people of the town would go to great lengths to maintain a high status which would technically give them more control over the town. This can work towards someone’s advantage or disadvantage. Due to Salem being such a small and confined town having a higher status can mean a lot and can even pull you out of trouble. At the time The crucible was set if you were not white you would
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Motivation can be clearly defined as why someone chooses to do what they preform‚ the reason behind the madness. Within Arthur Miller’s drama‚ The Crucible‚ the motivation of the many different characters is very conspicuous‚ as there are many hints throughout the text. The play is a fictionalized and dramatized version of the story of witchcraft in Salem‚ Massachusetts that took place during 1692. The drama was allegedly a representation of McCarthyism‚ the practice of making accusations without
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible it is explicitly shown that fear induces people to denounce their beliefs in order to protect their life from being threatened‚ or taken away. As seen in The Crucible‚ when someone is in a situation that impulses fear one tends to lie about certain details in order to protect themselves‚ without minding the effects on others. In this play Mary Warren‚ a timid and weak young girl‚ was the first to announce that the witchcraft accusations were nothing but false claims
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Sequential to the 1692 Salem witch trials‚ Author Arthur Miller transcribed the mishaps and vindictive behavior in his play The Crucible‚ which portrays the hysteria and consternation of the town. An exemplar woman named Elizabeth Proctor exhibits the arbitrary and discriminatory circumstances. In distinguishing‚ unlikeness Mary Warren impersonates a girl whose hesitancy and uncertainty guides her to condemn many lives. The play depicts the inequitable mobocracy and unjustified perpetrations provoked
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Sophia Popescu & Kirsten Watkins English III AP 1 30 October 2014 A community may not always be regarded as reputable‚ yet social norms and taboos are established to keep it afloat. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ societal conduct is violated and a community is capsized. In this socially awakening play‚ society is corrupted when a naivete community is immersed in power that enables insignificant people to manipulate the status quo to selfishly satisfy their own societal welfare and relationships
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In the opening scene of "The Crucible"‚ the playwright reveals insight into John and Elizabeths troubled marriage through Elizabeths subtle passive-aggressive gestures‚ Johns incoherent ramblings‚ and his emotional explosion at the end showing his frustration. Tension between the two immediately increases when John Proctor comes home late. Apparently‚ Elizabeth knows about Johns extramarital affair with Abigail. Elizabeths annoyance is seen when Proctor states‚ Oh‚ is it [a rabbit]! In Jonathans
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English Controlled Assessment Draft: Conflict in the Crucible The play I am studying for this essay is called “The Crucible” and I will be focusing on Act 1 of the book. The question I will be answering is what’s the most powerful type of conflict in the opening act of the crucible? The word conflict means a state of disharmony‚ opposition and or fighting. The conflict portrayed in the Crucible is often described as tools used to describe events in Millers time period. For example‚ witchcraft doesn’t exist
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English 3/Boynton Crucible Act 3 WORKSHEET 1. ! Consider the setting as the act opens. How is the different from the setting of Act 2. What is Miller doing? The setting is in the vestry room of the Salem meeting house‚ serving as the anteroom of the General Court. The setting is different from Act 2 because the setting is finally out of the house‚ its not inside a room or Rev. Paris house at all. It has become not private at all. 2. As this act opens‚ what accusation does Giles Corey make? What
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complete control over Kingshaw when he is in the house but outside Warings‚ he loses his authority over Charles. For example when Charles runs away from Warings and Hooper follows him Kingshaw is seen to be more dominant that Hooper. However Kingshaw does not take advantage of this power due to him having a nice streak. Hooper has a nightmare and shouts out "Mummy‚Mummy‚Mummy." instead of taking advantage of this Charles comforts him and says " Come on‚ Hooper‚ its O.K" Kingshaw thinks that now Hooper’s
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How does Arthur Miller create tension and suspense‚ building to a climax at the end of Act I? In Act I‚ trouble was already starting to brew as soon as the illegal immigrants Marco and Rodolfo got into the country. Eddie’s dislike of Rodolfo triggered several other problems which finally led to Marco threatening Eddie at the end of the play. Arthur Miller uses several techniques such as dramatic dialogue‚ foreshadowing and paralanguage to gradually increase the suspense and tension until finally
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