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    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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    Women In The Crucible

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    In the Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ men and women each hold powerful and important parts. Men hold mainly all of the power because they decide those who are sentenced to death. They are the ones who are in control of the village and lastly they all try to dominate over each other. Women accuse many of witchcraft and that is a big part. The men though decide out of those accusations who is sentenced to death by a hang. Overall‚ the men choose what to believe and what to do after that such as the

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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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    Breaking Crucible

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    Crucible Essay

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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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    The Crucible Injustice

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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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    Reaction To The Crucible

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    The Crucible I watched The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis‚ Winona Ryder‚ Joan Allen‚ and Paul Scofield. This movie is a play written by Arthur Miller‚ about the Salem witch trials in 1962 Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls are caught in the woods making love potions and dancing in the early morning. Because Salem was extremely religious the girls were forced to say the devil called upon them. Secrets‚ lies‚ and greed all led to innocent people being accused of witchcraft and executed.

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    Arthur Miller‚ a great playwright of his time‚ wrote The Crucible. The Crucible‚ a 1953 play‚ was written at the time of the Red Scare in America. The author was accused of being a communist during this period of time and wrote the play to show how out of proportion the government was while the Red Scare was commencing. Miller used various forms of satire to show his feeling towards this ordeal in the play. The forms of satire were used to compare the Salem Witch Trials to the Red Scare. His drama

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    The Crucible Analysis

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    characters of Parris and Danforth illustrate the moral corruption at the heart of Salem’s society and witch trials. Parris embodies self-absorption through his constant evaluation of every development in terms of how it affects his power and status. The Crucible opens with Parris‚ anxious over the unknown illness of his daughter Betty‚ viciously questioning Abigail on what might have caused Betty’s sudden ailment. Parris discovers that the girls were “dancing like heathen in the forest” (Miller 7). He interrogates

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