Final Projects for The Crucible Select one of the following to complete independently or with a partner: People Magazine’s Love Triangle of the Year Produce a magazine article in which you try to piece together the story of this love triangle from the various characters’ points of view. Your article should include comments by John Proctor‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ and Abigail Williams. The main goal here is to understand the effect their actions had on each of the others. Be sure to bring out the major
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Injustice has always occurred in this world‚ it is still talked about in our society and has impacted many people throughout history. Injustice is of the main themes shown in the plays Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Injustice is illustrated in both plays and issues of discrimination‚ character conflicts‚ and stereotypes are demonstrated. Discrimination proves that injustice is shown in both plays. In The Merchant Of Venice‚ Jews are often mistreated
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The Crucible takes place in a very intolerant setting. The Puritans in Salem‚ Massachusetts uphold a strict theocratic society. In a theocracy‚ the community is governed by God and the laws revolve around what God says to be right or wrong‚ meaning people can be punished for sinning. Anyone who strays away from the set ideals or beliefs is punished and persecuted accordingly. The weakness in such societies is that the people in authoritative positions can become easily corrupted. In The Crucible‚ Arthur
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The author purpose to write this story is to explain why he wrote The Crucible‚ what pushes him to write such a story. Arthur Miller tried to make life real by showing that things get repeated in history. The McCarthy trials are similar to Salem Witch trials. People were being accused for things that they never did and do not have any proof that they did these thing. The Crucible shows that whatever is happening now happened before‚ and we are repeating the history. It is important for people to
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society is trying to force them into anyway. Throughout The Crucible the proof that a society can truly change who people are in a situation and make it to where the people are going against their original beliefs and morals. The importance of conforming isn’t just one that plays a role on the outside of a character but how they are changed on the inside as well that truly shows the change played on the character. Included in The Crucible are many characters that go through a struggle that leads them
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“Why did Arthur Miller write the crucible”? The crucible was written in 1952‚ on the heels of World War II. During that time‚ the united states were concerned about the Soviet Union’s ideology‚ which it was expanding furiously across the European nations. Communism was defined as a significant paranoia for the United States‚ compared to the play concerning the witchcraft paranoia that Miller created. Two years before Miller’s play‚ the government launched confidential investigations in regards to
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friends. Abigail began doing witchcraft to fight for John Proctor’s love‚ and she wanted to get rid of Elizabeth who was Proctor’s wife. “You did‚ you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!”(The Crucible‚ Act One 13). Abigail is known for being mischievous‚ and selfish. She was definitely not possessed‚
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laws and the famous witch trials which they held‚ the Puritans found their way into literature. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the Puritans play a significant role as most of the characters in both pieces of literature are Puritans themselves. The Puritans believed in the ideas of sin‚ defined as “An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law” (Oxford 773)‚ redemption‚ defined as “The action of saving or being saved from sin‚ error
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Miller makes sure that the play is assembled so that the conclusion of the conflicts appear inevitable. He has written the play in a way that makes Eddie’s downfall obvious with the use of foreshadowing and other language techniques. Eddie’s opposition with impossible obstacles such as trying to overcome the fact that his niece has grown up and his inability to admit his inappropriate feelings for Catharine along with his extreme loathing towards Rodolpho and later on Marco all comes to the final
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a literary work. The Crucible shows multiple topics that each hold a theme throughout Act IV. For example‚ a main topic is guilt. The theme is personal guilt leads people to make extreme choices. At the end of the play‚ Proctor is hung because he chooses to hide what he knows about Abigail since he holds so much guilt inside himself for committing the sin of adultery. Proctor was a good man but chose to die so he lost the guilt of sinning. Pride is also a topic in The Crucible. Everyone holds a source
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