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    The Crucible

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    Moore fires up plans for a ’Fahrenheit’ follow-up November 12‚ 2004|From Associated Press Michael Moore plans a follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11‚" his hit documentary that assails President Bush over the handling of the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on terrorism. Moore told Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd that he and Harvey Weinstein‚ the Miramax boss who produced the film‚ hope to have "Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2 " ready in two to three years. "Fifty-one percent of the American people

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    Allegory In The Crucible

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    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a very wise piece that perfectly explains the story of two time periods. Although Miller literally wrote about the Salem witch trials‚ his purpose was to describe the McCarthy trials which teaches many ideas about human life both generally and regarding politics. The two time periods were more than two and a half centuries apart‚ yet they had many factors that overlapped. Miller explains the McCarthy trials through The Crucible by teaching people’s fears‚ faults‚ and

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    Why the “Crucible”?

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    Sara North April 21‚ 2013 Why the “Crucible”? Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1951 in direct response to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communism scare. Miller wanted the American people to convey the pain caused by false accusations and relate it to the Salem witch hunts. Sen. McCarthy accused a huge number of high profile Americans of being communists. In doing so‚ he ruined those people’s careers. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible‚ innocent people were convicted and put on trial for witchcraft

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    Crucible Essay

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    An outlook on gender roles in today ‘s advanced society is drastic contrast to the views portrayed in the crucible written by Arthur Miller depicts women as weak . None of the females in crucible posses extreme power but the truthful pre-hearted and family oriented women seemed to be even less powerful than the others . Therefore‚ Miller has also shown women sufferance In crucible through interpretive evidence on how tituba was being accused for all witchcraft and how she demolished

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    Discuss the Various Types of Fear present in the crucible In Arthur Miller’s‚ ‘The Crucible‚’ Miller has displayed a society based around fear. Miller has used the symbolic representation of Salem throughout the notorious ‘witchcraft trial’ period to highlight the notion of fear that led to extreme hysteria. Such hysteria engulfed the whole community into a group of individuals whose actions were motivated by fear of condemnation. This representation has allowed miller to express his views on

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    The Crucible Bandwagone

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    know why they were going crazy. But because everyone around them were‚ they did too. So to sum it up‚ they bandwagoned. Which is what a lot of people in The Crucible did. Everyone in that play were accusing everyone of witchcraft simply because everyone else was. Pretty stupid‚ but aye that’s bandwagoning. However‚ not everyone in The Crucible bandwagoned. An example of one of those

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    they face punishment from others. While Deists and Transcendentalists believe in more of a nature spirit. The latter two‚ however‚ do not nearly compare with the strictness in religion as the Puritans‚ thus creating the change through time. Throughout the major literary philosophies in the United States‚ one can see how the enforcement

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    Braxton Bailey English Mrs. Jenson The crucible How the crucible is a tragic comedy I don’t think The Crucible is a tragic comedy. The book may contain a few comical parts in it; but it should not be considered a comedy. The only funny character would be Giles Corey‚ because he is elderly and sincere. He is vary grouchy‚ which makes him a laughable character‚ (for example when he used the word “fart”‚ and is often outrageous reactions when he hears something wrong‚ and takes offence.) Some other

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    Aesha Masood Ms.Smith Period 9 12/12/12 The Crucible Time from time ‚ the way women are portrayed and seen in society has been changing. According‚ to the society and time women are either considered suprerior or inferior to men. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ there are many sterotypes regarding women; women are only seen as either wives‚ mothers‚ daughters or sisters in the patrioarchal society in Salem. They cannot do anything on their own and are only bound to their homes and

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    Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953‚ just when the Second World War had ended. But still there was a battle between the capitalists and the communists. Arthur Miller wrote this book because of the incidents that occurred during the 1950’s. Senator Joseph McCarthy had a feeling of communism in the United States. So he starts a witch hunt to find the communists in the United States and he targeted celebrities of Hollywood such as Helen Keller‚ Langston Hughes and Charlie Chaplin put them all on

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