The most important word in The Crucible is God because the word is used to defend and prosecute others and has an ironic meaning throughout the play. The word God is more important than other words because God is used to defend and prosecute others. To the villagers‚ all of their actions are judged by God and all sins are irredeemable. Although this is a large burden‚ it also holds the community together and prevents any form of disunity. However at the start of the story‚ this community begins
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The Crucible - Quotations Characters: Abigail Williams • Stage directions: an endless capacity for dissembling • “…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” • “I’d almost forgot how strong you are‚ John Proctor!” • Stage directions: Winningly she comes a little closer‚ with a confidential‚ wicked air. • “I want to open myself! I want the light of God… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the
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whether to tell the truth Mary’s fear starts to take over "in terror: I cannot‚ they’ll turn on me"(Miller‚Arthur 80). Marry Warren is Battling with herself as well as John to either go to the court and tell the truth or let Abby be her puppet master and back off and keep quite and not get on Abby’s watch list. Fed up with everything Marry still has no courage to confess and tries to escape "struggling to escape him: I cannot do it‚ I cannot(80)! Proctor tries to get marry to confess so he can save his
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The Crucible Connection The worst words to hear when friends are fighting are “who said it” or “name names”. I was in a problematic situation a couple of weeks ago and I was asked that question and instead of naming names I lied and took the blame. The whole fight started because when I was hanging out with my two friends while waiting for my other two friends to come and meet us. My one friend said that one of the girls had a “big mouth and that you couldn’t trust her with any personal details”
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the girls saying that they only danced and Tituba conjured spirits not them and if they told Abigail would ‘come to [them] in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine‚ and I have seen some reddish work done at night‚ and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!’ We can see the extremes Abigail would go to keep this a secret. We know that Abigail is just plain bad‚
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In this drama and action movie a lot of life lessons could be applicable to multiple audiences. Investing in this movie will bring awareness to issues such as suicide‚ depression and learning to cope with problems. It will allow people to learn about the impact of suicide to those around them. In “I’m Sorry”‚ a woman trying to commit suicide ends a pregnant woman’s life. She can’t deal with the remorse and ends up killing herself. The setting of this movie will be in a suburban town in Chicago
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The Hypocritical human approach towards Woman; a Forced Dependent: యత్ర నార్యస్తు పూజ్యన్తే రమన్తే తత్ర దేవతః (Yatra Naryastu Pujyante‚ Ramante Tatra Devataha) Where women are honoured‚ Divinity blossoms there. The Indian philosophers of yore (the rishis) considered that the seeds of divinity grow and blossom in a truly cultured society where women are given due respect and equal opportunities of rise and dignity but it is sheer hypocrisy. On one hand‚ though we extol woman as AdiShakti
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childish things‚ despite being sensible? Blame shifting is done as a result of people being unable to handle negative repercussions of a situation. A old but well analyzed example is the Salem witch hunts‚ which are highlighted in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”. In the book‚ Tituba gets accused of witchcraft‚ so to lessen her punishment‚ she claims that two others are also witches (Miller 47). Tituba cared for those around her and didn’t want people to be hurt‚ but when she was to be hung‚ things changed
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The Crucible Analysis - Act Three Why do Giles Corey & Francis Nurse want to speak to the court? What does Giles Corey mean when he says that he “broke charity with the women (his wife)”? What does Danforth say is the reason that the court (“the state”) accepts what the girls are saying? What is Reverend Parris’ argument against John Proctor? How is Elizabeth Proctor’s current condition a benefit to her? Why has Mary Warren come to court? Danforth states “a person is either
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Crucible Passages 1. Page 11 Parris: “I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire when I came on you. Why was she doing that? And I heard a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth. She were swaying like a dumb beast over that fire!” 2. Page 15-16 Ann Putnam: “And so I thought to send her to your Tituba” Rev Parris: “To Tituba! What ma Tituba---?” Ann: “Tituba knows how to speak to the dead‚ Mr. Parris.” 3. Page 38 Ann Putnam: “Mr. Parris’s slave has knowledge of conjurin’‚ sir.” . . . Ann
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