The Crucible: Air of Hysteria and Paranoia The Crucible (1996) is a drama-film adaptation directed by Nicholas Hytner. The cast of the movie involves a myriad of performers such as Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder. Derived from the play by American playwright Arthur Miller‚ many plots and concepts from the film are identical to the original work. The Crucible is based on true stories about the witch trials held in Salem‚ Massachusetts. During this time period‚ witchcraft was socially unacceptable
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group‚ those who have become "infected" find that their lives are thrown into chaos and ruin. Epidemic hysteria was found evident in the lives of the characters in The Crucible. The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ is a play that retells the events of the Salem Witch Trials. By looking at those "infected" by hysteria in The Crucible and the facts drawn from other outbreaks in a journal by Leslie B. Boss‚ it can be seen how the concepts of hysteria apply to the characters of this play‚ including
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How should guilty people be punished? Thousands of crimes are committed throughout the year; robbery‚ fraud‚ rape etc The people who commit these crimes and are caught are sent to jail. The only thing is‚ Every person who committed a crime had a different reason for doing it. That is why the Court exists‚ to judge each case differently. There should be an individual punishment for every case‚ because every case is different‚ and the "criminals" have different motives
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assignment: Definition of ORIGINALITY. Originality is a new idea? No! In 2004‚ after reading the script of a Bryony Lavery’s Frozen‚ psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis was shock because every details in this play were similar to what she used to write in “Guilty by Reason of Insanity” in 1998. A chart of fifteen pages long was made up with the totaling of six hundred and seventy-five words are verbatim similarities. She thought that her life‚ her work was plagiarized by Lavery. Then she wanted to sue Frozen’s
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“The defendant is…not guilty‚” said the judge. Yes‚ my plan actually worked. I can’t believe that Herb actually made everybody agree that I was innocent. I actually got away with killing my idiotic father. Oh I despised him so much‚ he would beat me and yell at me for no apparent reason. I remember that day like it was yesterday‚ I went to the drugstore and bought myself a switchblade knife. I was so irritated and I was ready to do anything to get rid of that old hag. I walked into the apartment
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The documentary “Presumed Guilty” embodies various elements of how criminal procedure works in an inquisitorial legal system. In an inquisitorial system the accused is automatically assumed to be guilty (Ministry of Justice‚ 2013). It is through the evidence‚ investigations by court‚ the screening process‚ and Prosecutor the truth will evolve. The court plays an active role in determining the facts of a case and the conducts of the trial (Reichel‚ P.‚ 2013‚ p.170). The judge is in charge of gathering
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Abigail ran away for her life of lies. - Lies may be truth‚ and truth may be lies John Proctor and every innocent person knew the truth while Abigail insisted that they were working with the devil. So who is going to believe who? -When good men do nothing‚ evil can triumph. If people in Salem said that Abigail and the other girls were lying‚ there could have been a chance for the innocent to live. But only one person stood up for himself (Proctor) and he got hanged. -One error can lead up
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drives the community of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible to the hangings of various innocent people. Reverend Parris highly regards his reputation more than standing up to a corrupt authority. Judge Danforth wrongly condemns and hangs townspeople‚ yet refuses to admit his faults. By contrast‚ John Proctor is an ashamed lecher and prioritizes saving his wife and saving the unjustly convicted people who are still alive with the truth. Throughout The Crucible‚ Miller utilizes corrupt male authority figures
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“Dead until Dark” – analysis and interpretation Introduction What do vampires have in common with 21st century ethnic minorities? In the fantasy novel “Dead until Dark” from 2001 – of which I have read chapter 1 – the author Charlaine Harris deals with vampires as just another minority group in a modern multicultural society. Vampires are discriminated against‚ attacked and abused – and also objects of attraction and curiosity. The chapter is thus a thrilling story with elements of horror and
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The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller was successful in warning the citizens of America against McCarthyism during the 1950’s. McCarthyism began because of a man named McCarthy and in the story The Crucible‚ a young girl named Abigail started the madness which lead to the witch trials. Abigail was galvanized by love‚ creating a duplicitous version of herself and sparked conflict between herself‚ Proctor‚ and Elizabeth. Deceitfulness and lies is constant throughout the story‚ and Abigail is the
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