Critical Issues in Literature-The Crucible Name Piece Assignment Common Core Standards W 11.3‚ SL 11.6. L 11.2 At the end of the play‚ John Proctor refuses to sign his name to the written confession (stating that he participated in witchcraft). He responds to Danforth by saying‚ “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name?” For this
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the whirlwind events of the Salem witch trials stem from the community’s bottled up bitterness over political‚ financial‚ and personal issues. This devil-worship scandal is quickly seized by Abigail Williams as an opportunity to seek power and revenge. Abigail is a small-minded girl overflowed with resentment. She is an unmarried woman and also an orphan. Abigail must take the humble position of a servant‚ but her pride causes her to resent her low position on the social
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The Crucible- Comprehension Study Questions 1. There are many factors that contribute to the initiation and the escalation of the witch hunts in Salem. Partisans truly believed in the existence of witches‚ as it was recognize as a sin against God in the bible. This caused their society to accredit any unnatural happenings to the Devil. When Ruth and Betty cannot wake‚ Ann Putnam blames her daughters unconscious state and the deaths of her unbaptized babies on witchery. Witchcraft in Salem is
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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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The Crucible In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ I found three of the several themes shown throughout the play to be important. In Salem‚ fear rules the lives of the villagers‚ causing irrational actions. Also‚ the Salem Villagers are very manipulative people and will coerce others into doing what they want. Finally‚ the officials tend to follow either the letter of the law‚ or the spirit of the law‚ affecting the choices that are made in court. These themes are shown periodically throughout the
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Literature October 16th‚ 2014 Arthur Miller Sure Knows How to Use Artistic License Arthur Miller’s play the Crucible is a dramatic telling of the tragic Salem Witch Trials. While Miller was telling a true story‚ he exercised his artistic license and twisted the truth‚ sometimes drastically. Miller made his changes in order to create a more entertaining moral story and to fit the main themes of the Crucible. Since the play is a literary work‚ Miller had the right to change the facts to make a more entertaining
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down on a piece of paper; it has meaning to everyday people and everyday life. A hero is not always a person in a cape‚ but also a man who saves a kitten from a tree or stands up for someone who is too afraid to do it themselves. In the play The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ the small town of Salem experienced a certain turn of events to their quiet area known as the Salem witch trials. Now‚ a hero can come in any size‚ shape‚ or form‚ but this hero came in the form of a man named John Proctor. A
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Title: The Crucible Text Type: Play/movie Writer: Arthur Miller In the play “The Crucible” Arthur Miller brings out the theme of conflict between good and evil. Miller brings out this theme using the characters in the play. At the start of the play Abigail Williams and other village girls are found dancing and running naked in the woods and the town people sees them as good‚ not evil this is because the girls are deflecting their punishment for dancing by telling the
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problems. This source is usually a person or ideal‚ which can create havoc‚ confusion‚ conflict‚ and other troublesome issues. The source is most commonly used‚ and becomes a theme of the work of literature. The Crucible and Oedipus Rex both have major problem sources. In the Crucible the problem source is viewed to be the "devil"‚ while in Oedipus Rex‚ the source is viewed to be Oedipus. Both sources have similarities and differences that both relate and oppose them. Oedipus Rex is an ancient
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English Homework Sophia Cassan What role does sex‚ and sexual repression play in The Crucible? The Crucible is a play constructed on conflict‚ lies and deception‚ written by Arthur Miller in 1952. The key theme of this theatrical four-act drama is ‘Wheels within wheels’. Set in Salem‚ in the heart of puritan Massachusetts‚ in 1692‚ the plot follows a community of villagers plagued by accusations of witchcraft. Amidst the executions of their friends‚ the remaining villagers turn to religion‚ rumours
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