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    event that happened in real life. In order to have a good story with a good plot‚ you need the perfect antagonist‚ and that is most definitely Abigail Williams. So if The Crucible was just a play then Abby would be kinda cool‚ cause again if it wasn’t for her we would have no plot twists‚ or anything interesting. But since The Crucible is based on the Salem witch trials which happened in real life and that Abby Williams is a real person‚ I feel strongly that Abby Williams is not a good person and not

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    hallucinations and mind control to scare and bewilder others into believing witchcraft is truly being committed. The strange and sudden events of so many women being accused of witchcraft caused Salem as a whole to become enveloped in hysteria. In The Crucible‚ by

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    Woah nelly‚ The Crucible sure was something alright. It took place back when The Puritans were still a thing‚ and they spend their time hunting witches‚ spooks‚ ceiling monsters and hanging people for being in cahoots with the devil him(her?)self. It’s all fun and games till some ladies lose their chill in the forest and then‚ to protect themselves‚ accuse everyone else of being in cahoots with the devil. This sounds like something that would never in a million years happen on our doorsteps‚ especially

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    The Crucible is a good portrayal of the events that happened. The vulgar acts of the townspeople to these ladies is profusely obscene. This would not happen today‚ people may get immensely worked up over things but they would never kill people like that. In today’s society we still have radicals‚ but law enforcement would never let this happen. The peril of what happened back then is an abomination; it is a blemish on our country. The acts of the people were incoherent to the law and everyone who

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    Crucible Themes Essay If you don’t believe in witch hunts‚ that’s fine. But the idea of them is very real. The Crucible is a story that takes place in Salem‚ Massachusetts. This small community is full of superstition and the towns people let their beliefs destroy friendships‚ and lives. Arthur Miller uses many repeating themes in the play The Crucible. There are many good‚ and bad themes that come up throughout the play. Some of the common themes of this story are lust‚ fear‚ and courage. Lust

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    system were accused of being witches and hanged as well. These actions are shown very clearly in Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible. In this play‚ several teenage girls begin to accuse people they don’t like of witchcraft and pretend that they are being afflicted by them. The people of Salem all believe them and almost every person the “afflicted” girls accuse

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    overboard in any given situations. Like in the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller which is a comparison the ridiculous social paranoia of the McCarthy period in the 50’s and the salem witch trials. The play written by Arthur Miller shows how many has not changed from century to century. That there is many similarities from how people use to act to how we act now. Many of the same situations happened to both eras. Arthur miller wrote the crucible as a parallel to the communist scares in America;

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    fueled a climate of hysteria and suspicion‚ turning everyone on eachother‚ casting doubts even on those of spotless reputation. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ the character of Abigail William’s position of power is in upended and affect the community of Salem to illustrate the effect of mass hysteria. Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ is about the persecution of people being falsely accused of being witches in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1692. Many people die in the village after a series

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    The Crucible 1. What was your reaction to John Proctor’s final choice? At first I was shocked until I realized his reasoning. He probably felt that he found God‚ and he even confessed to Elizabeth about his cheating. 2. At the end of the play‚ Elizabeth Proctor says that her husband has “his goodness.” What do you think she means? She means that there is no use in trying to convince John because now that he found his God/point in life‚ she can’t take it away from him or convince him.

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    Arthur Miller has argued for years about the historical truth surrounding The Crucible‚ and defined its trans-historical subject as a social process that includes the Salem witchcraft trials and the anti-Communist investigations of the fifties. Though The Crucible is unrelenting in its opposition to the authoritarian systems represented by Puritanism and McCarthyism‚ its use of historical material and the position on moral tyranny‚ which it projects‚ seems far more complex than criticism on the

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