John Proctor in The Crucible is faced with a decision; to live with a lie‚ or die for his belief. John Proctor made the best decision possible‚ to die for his belief and carry his good name. In doing this‚ he secures his children’s future by leaving a good reputation. He only has one name in his lifetime‚ so he chose to die to keep it instead of lie and tear his reputation down for himself and his future kin. Your name is legacy‚ and is more important than life itself. Although life is important
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100 August 30‚ 2013 American Borders In the article “Alien World” by Alexander Zaitchik (2009)‚ the author makes a logical argument about how Mexico’s impoverished economy is heavily dependent on migrant workers and how it has affected an indigenous people. Zaitchik is a freelance journalist who is affiliated
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Line 415 “Because it speaks deceit‚ and I am honest!” John Proctor a major character in this excellent put together compelling play captured the tragic flaw hidden inside John Proctor. This story starts off with Act One with his conservation with Abigail (the pathological liar) line 439 “I may have looked up” this explains his tragic flaw as being an unfaithful husband. He also feels compassion towards his wife when she was taken away. Line 990-992 “My wife will never die for me! I will bring your
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or makes a mistake which eventually leads to his or her defeat. A tragic hero characteristics include pity and fear‚ relatability‚ goodness‚ hamartia‚ and consistency. John Proctor is definitely a tragic hero and he shows this in many ways in The Crucible by Arthur Miller through means of catharsis and a tragic flaw‚ hamartia. John Proctor is an honest‚ blunt-spoken‚ overall good person with one fatal flaw. In the play‚ he starts off as a respected and successful farmer whose main focus is himself
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Mrs. Palindrome “ Good morning‚ class‚” the substitute teacher‚ proclaimed as her purple eyelashes fluttered covering her gold colored eyes. She stood up from the teacher’s desk she had been enclosed in to stretch her long‚ grasshopper legs. Her face was plastered with makeup of different shades of pink and purple. Her skin had a slight tint of green. “My name is Mrs. Neila and I will be filling in for your teacher today.” The words flew out of her blue lips and into the children’s ears.
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Neal Miller and John Dollard Neal Miller and John Dollard were psychologists who spent much of their professional careers working together. Neal Miller lived from the years 1909 to 2002‚ outliving his associate John Dollard‚ who was born in the year 1990 and died in 1980. According to Rolnick and Rickles (2010)‚ the two psychologists dedicated much of their partnered professional time and efforts towards the integration of social learning theories with psychoanalysis. In comparison with the overwhelmingly
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woke up to see before me a strange looking boy‚ with two antenna like objects sticking out of his head over a hairy body. His owl like round eyes resembled the characters I had just seen from Mars. I screamed in fright‚ but he said something in an alien language and gesticulated with his hands‚ indicating that he meant no harm. I stared at him in disbelief unable to even scream. Sensing that I was frightened‚ he gave me a translator to put on my ears that would allow me to understand his language
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John C. Calhoun: The Starter of the Civil War If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War‚ it was John C. Calhoun -- Unknown. The fact that he never wanted the South to break away from the United States as it would a decade after his death‚ his words and life ’s work made him the father of secession. In a very real way‚ he started the American Civil War. Slavery was the foundation of the antebellum South. More than any other characteristic‚ it defined Southern social‚ political
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executed. In The Crucible‚by Arthur Miller‚ John proctor is seen as a Tragic Hero because he is able to overcome his flaw ‚but his pride led to his death. In the play‚ it shows that ordinary people can be a Tragic Hero. A Tragic Hero is a literary character who makes an error of judgement or has a fatal flaw that is combined with fate and external forces‚ that bring on a tragedy. During the play the crucible‚ a play written by Arthur miller‚ the character John Proctor suffers a change in lust ‚
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confessing whilst dozens stayed in jail for months without trials. This was all McCarthyism that was still around when The Crucible was written and was a witch hunt looking for evil which focused on Communists that they found everywhere. This was how Miller portrayed how primitive the American 1950’s were by relating it to McCarthyism in the 1690’s. The basic hysteria that swept through the witch hunt was also kept that looked as it could have been due to frontier war‚ economic conditions‚ personal
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