accused of witchcraft all the young girls pretend to see the Devil‚ so the person accused gets hanged. They all just go with it and Mary Warren even pretends to faint. Danforth asks Mary Warren‚ “And you‚ Mary Warren‚ how came you to cry out people for sending their spirits against you?” Mary replied‚ “It were pretense‚ sir.” Danforth then replied‚ “Ah‚ And the other girls? Susanna Walcott‚ and--the others? They were also pretending?” Mary Warren confessed‚ “Ay‚ sir (Miller 210).” The girls do not
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am no good man. Nothing’s spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before"(136) and rather confess then die for something he flat out did not do. However‚ as John confesses‚ he decides that he can not allow Danforth to make it officially documented. As Danforth asks him why John answers with a cry " because it is my name. Because I cannot have another in my life . . . How may I live without my name? Have given you my soul; leave me my name(143). John feels strongly about having a
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terrorist attack and the men might be classified as terrorists and even brought into custody‚ although there is no physical proof. The second lesson that I learned was that communities still treat those who deviate from social norms differently. As Danforth says in Act III‚ “[A] person is either with this court or he must be counted against it‚ there be no road in between” (p. 94). As we read‚ the girls who deviated from social norms‚ the “witches‚” were hanged and stoned because the community thought
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John thought that if he signed the confession then everyone would know that he was lying and people would think he falsely accused people of witchcraft. Proctor had signed the confession‚ but when Judge Danforth reaches for it‚ John rips it into pieces. Proctor had ripped the confession because he knew that if he would have gave it to the judges then his name would be ruined forever. The judges then began to beg Elizabeth to make Proctor sign the confession
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A tragic hero is a literary character of great virtue who has a fatal flaw that eventually leads to his downfall. What makes the character a tragic hero is a self-awareness and reversal of the tragic flaw that draws the empathy of the reader. In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor is the tragic hero because of his indiscretion and his conceit to maintain his good name which leads to his demise and eventual death. One trait of a tragic hero is that the character must be noble
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Would Oprah have become a famous talk show host if her name had been Cindy? Would Elvis be the King of Rock and Roll if his name had been Jim? Our names are the cornerstone of our personality. From creative spellings to family tributes‚ our names say a lot about us‚ and they help us become who we are. Whether they are a loving nickname from a close friend‚ a mocking joke from peers‚ or an innocent mispronunciation from a teacher‚ names are a powerful and personal piece of who we are. A name identifies
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Individual Against Society The theme of the individual against society is central to the play. Throughout we find evidence of the pressures on individuals to conform to what society expects from them. For example: girls are not allowed to dance‚ books other than the Bible are frowned upon‚ John Proctor is distrusted by many because he does not go to church regularly. This last example is taken very seriously because the society that Proctor lives in is built on religious principles. Anyone choosing
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor is an Aristotelian character. He is a character with a tragic flaw and is also a tragic hero. A tragic hero has many distinctive characteristics such as nobility and hubris. A tragic hero also has a fatal flaw‚ experiences tragic things‚ falls and is destroyed‚ and at the end of a play there is catharsis. John Proctor had a mixture of good and bad characteristics. His bad characteristics included having an affair with a girl named Abigail who used to
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about the Salem Witch Trials in the year 1692. Arthur Miller himself was one of the many people put before the congressional committee during the red scare and hunt for communists in the 1950’s. From that experience he brought to light the direct parallels and relationships between these two events in history. One of the characters he portrayed in his play was Abigail Williams. She was a young girl who provoked the search of witches to clear her own name after
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would not be her slave. It’s a bitter woman‚ a lying‚ cold‚ sniveling woman‚ and I will not work for such a woman!” (Act 1 PG 11) The power behind the girls accusations is amazingly large‚ through all their spectral evidence that was taken for by Danforth and Hathorne. “I tell you straight‚ Mister—I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people choked before my eyes by spirits; I have seen them struck by pins and slashed by daggers. I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect
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