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    Owen uses various techniques and devices to evoke the sense of World War One. Words such as ‘beggars’‚ ‘children’ and ‘boys’ refers to the soldiers. In the first verse‚ ‘Bent double‚ like old beggars under sack‚ knocked-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge’‚ ‘like’ indicates that it’s the use of simile and ‘old beggars’ is hyperbole of soldiers’ fatigue. ‘Knocked-knee’ is the use of alliteration. ‘His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin;’ is a visible image of the war. He depicts

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    Eng Paragraph On why Miller cut act 2 scene 2 from the play In Act 2 Scene 2‚ 2 the main characters are john Proctor and Abigail Williams. They meet in the woods at night‚ with Abigail wrapped with her nightgown‚ and Proctor with his lantern raised. As they got over the awkwardness and silence‚ john pleads with abigail to withdraw the accusations she made. Abigail makes it quite clear that she is irrational as she clings to a belief that the accusations were true and that after everything

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    Authors use many literary devices in order to heighten and enhance their works. Dramatic irony‚ expressions to complementary attitudes understood by the audience but not the characters‚ can make the emotions stronger in literature. Homer is one of many authors who used this technique well. In The Odyssey‚ Homer uses dramatic irony in order to enhance the emotional effect of crucial moments in the storyline‚ especially during the journey of Telemachus‚ the initial return of Odysseus‚ and the restoration

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    Essay for The Crucible * Compare the roles that Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams play in The Crucible. In the play‚ The Crucible‚ there are a variety of characters that serve various purposes‚ a primary one being a representative of the people that were actually present during the Salem Witch Trials and The McCarthyism era. Albeit different people‚ many of the people presented in both of these times had similar roles to play in the grand scheme of things‚ and thus‚ Arthur Miller created

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    Mac Morton 12 April 2013 English 12 Essay Question Although Miller’s The Crucible takes place in the late 1600’s‚ its lessons are still applicable to us in 2013. This short essay focuses on three specific lessons that I have learned from the play‚ which are the negative effects of mass hysteria‚ the consequences of deviating from social norms‚ and the dominance of patriarchy. The first lesson that I learned was that mass hysteria often creates harmful stereotypes. In the play‚ mass hysteria

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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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    the Main Street shot list 1. 1:32:22 – 1:32:35 Shot starts with wide shot of Tono lighting a match in a dark room. Mrs. Lautmannova is asleep on the bed right next to him. He begins to shake her awake calling her name. She awakes‚ startled and asks who it is as she turns and reaches for the light. 2. 1:32:35 – 1:32:39 Wide shot from slightly behind Mrs. Lautmannova. Tono urgently tells her‚ while she is sitting up in bed‚ that he has come to warn her. 3. 1:32:39 – 1:32:42 Wide shot over the shoulder

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    The trials in The Crucible take place against the backdrop of a deeply religious and superstitious society‚ and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their community is God’s work. However‚ there are plenty of simmering feuds and rivalries in the small town that have nothing to do with religion‚ and many Salem residents take advantage of the trials to express long-held grudges and exact revenge on their enemies. Abigail‚ the original source of the hysteria

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    The Crucible: Who is to blame? In the play‚ The Crucible‚ who is to blame for the 1692 witchcraft trials of Salem‚ Massachusetts? Abigail Williams is to blame; she is a mean and vindictive person. She always wants her way‚ no matter who she hurts in the process. Throughout the play her accusations and lies cause many people pain and suffering‚ costing nineteen people their life’s. She led a group of twelve girls and made them lie to save herself from getting in trouble. Since Abigail would do anything

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    Explain How Arthur Miller Uses Act Three As A Dramatic Device To Expose The Rivalries Which Exist In Salem. In 1952‚ Arthur Miller wrote a play entitled‚ ‘The Crucible’. The play is centred on the witch trials that actually took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote about the event as an allegory for McCarthyism which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. McCarthyism was a time of great anti-communist suspicion in the late 1940s and 1950s. The key connections

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