At the South Plantation High School production of “The Crucible”‚ the students took a new twist on modern acting. The entire production was done in American Sign Language (ASL) with only two people saying every person’s lines for him or her. Through this interesting interpretation‚ the actors/actresses were extremely talented at portraying emotion without uttering a single word. “The Crucible” is fictional play created in 1953 by Arthur Miller based off of the Salem witch trials in the 1690s.
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Monologue of Tybalt the Capulet I am Tybalt‚ a Capulet and cousin of Juliet. I am known as short-tempered‚ impulsive‚ and a vengeful person‚ I draw my sword anytime I can. However I am loyal beyond words and honour the family rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues with great heart. I will never betray the Capulets. On the day of Capulets’ party Romeo showed up. I recognised Romeo through his disguise at the Capulets’ ball. I can’t remember that we invited him to our party. Why is Romeo
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The Crucible Tone Paper In Arthur Miller’s book/play The Crucible‚ the tone he adopts towards the subject of witch trials and witch hunts‚ and towards the characters that maintain them‚ is carefully written. His ironic and cynical tones throughout the play poke fun at the religious officials doing what they thought was right‚ executing people they thought were witches. They also further the outlook on the lack of justice in a harsh‚ Puritan society. Miller continually uses irony in situations
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The Holocaust and The Crucible Imagine someone’s parents accusing them of eating their left overs. They know they were not around‚ so they could not have eaten them. But their siblings happen to blame them for it‚ and their parents believe their siblings over them. Since they “took” their parent’s left overs they are now on punishment. That person had to deal with a very similar‚ but nowhere near as severe punishment that the victims of the Salem Witch Trials and the Jews during the Holocaust
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Another historical event is the Holocaust. Some psychologists believe hysteria could be to blame for both of these events. Regardless‚ hysteria has played a crucial role in both the Holocaust and the Salem Witch Trials‚ as told in Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible. 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts was the home to many Puritans. A puritan was someone with strict religious beliefs. They wanted to keep their community free from the devil so they banned anything that could possibly encourage them to fall into
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The Crucible Essay Test No matter what relationship that a person is in‚ there will always be times that they have issues. No matter if it is friendships‚ or marriages. For John and Elizabeth Proctor in the play The Crucible they had more apparent issues that they had been working hard on together to solve. In the novel The Crucible we got the personal insight on why Elizabeth and John were always walking on egg shells. Months prior to the incident John exclaimed that he and the families maid
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Betrayals in The Crucible In The Crucible‚ the community of Salem was depicted as motivated by fear‚ greed‚ and revenge shown by the witch trials. Some people of the community are afraid for their lives of being condemned a witch‚ while others take advantage of those fears. As a result‚ people will do anything to satisfy the motivation including betrayal. In The Crucible‚ three types of betrayal are evident which are the betrayal of oneself‚ theocracy‚ and community. In Salem‚ the puritan society
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against injustice is the duty that people need to do to bring justice. Bringing justice plays a huge part in The Crucible. The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch Trials and how it started. One of the main reasons so many people hanged for witchcraft was the fear of authority. It is clear that the courts are unjust‚ but no one spoke out against it until the end of the play. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller expresses the theme of “Defiance becoming the duty of the people in the face of injustice” using
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Throughout the play The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ one?s name is a very important motif that is carried out. Reputation is the general estimation in which a person is held by the public‚ as referred to by dictionary.com. Reputation is very important in Salem because public and private moralities are one and the same. Witchcraft plays a huge role throughout the book and if someone is being named a witch then that is a huge sin to Puritanism. Reputation is a huge key factor to even everyone?s daily
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