October 26‚ 2012 Jealousy Can Destroy Lives First loves can be the best thing that the world has to offer. The feeling that you get when you see your special someone walk towards you. The fact that you remember everything little thing that he/she did for you that makes you feel like you are the happiest boy/girl in the whole world. Despite all of the good reasons that love brings‚ love can also be the most selfish and heartbreaking thing if the person who you love does not feel the same
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Jealousy fuels revenge; people commit irrational actions to satisfy their selfishness‚ causing them to do something they wouldn’t normally do. In the small town of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ jealousy and revenge arise from mixed feelings and the perdu of the so-called “witchcraft.” Occurring in Salem’s rigid Puritan community‚ these witch trials were a perfect example of injustice spurred from vengeance. During the era of McCarthyism‚ in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ not all is lost when the race for
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Jealousy: An Explanation By: Katie Jansen Some people know jealousy as "green envy." Some people just know it as plain old jealousy‚ but everyone knows jealousy and the pain it can cause. Jealousy is a nasty emotion‚ causing nice people to act mean‚ calm people to act rash‚ and even the steadiest of tempers to rise. It lashes out with harsh actions and words‚ hurting many innocent victims. Jealousy causes people to act in abnormal ways‚ devious ways of hatred and deception‚ ways that most people
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Imagine being sentenced to death‚ solely because one person doesn’t like you. Throughout The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller has portrayed many personal rivalries. A very important role that is shown everywhere during the witch hunt is jealousy. The towns people of Salem have taken advantage of the witch hunt‚ in order to manifest their grudges held towards one another. For instance‚ Abigail has a grudge against Elizabeth because she has fired Abigail after discovering John’s affair with her. Abigail
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Abigail’s jealousy played a huge part of the port. Her jealousy for Elizabeth Proctor turned quite deadly‚ first when she tried to make a charm to kill her and her jealousy plays a part in the second act as well. Mary Warren comes in from a day at court about to get whipped to take the devil out of her‚ when she confesses that she saved Elizabeth’s
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The Crucible: love driven jealousy Abigail’s envy of Elizabeth and John Proctor’s relationship continuously drove the conflict throughout the play‚ The Crucible written by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller depicts Abigail’s love driven jealousy as a major scandal‚ perhaps in its entirety leading to the dramatization of these Salem witch trials. Although Abigail had already taken part in an affair with John Proctor‚ the betrayal of his wife was not enough for her. While Abigail fell deeper in love
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Corruption Can Destroy Democracy K S VENKATARAMAN Defining Corruption The term corruption is very common but it is difficult to give a dogmatic definition of it. Broadly‚ it is any dishonest or illegal or selfish behavior for getting any undue benefit. It has a special reference to those who occupy a position of trust or confidence but act in violation of generally understood or specified terms of behavior. Corruption involves two sides: One side trying to get some undue advantage
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Crucible essay After studying the crucible I believe the quote “Superstition can possibly lead to a society’s demise” is the main theme behind “The crucible”‚ this is because people of Salem due to the hysteria and panic started accusing each other and eventually ruined their own society as people who had no say in the public or the court like the women‚ started to accuse people and since the court believed them ‚ these girls and women started to receive respect and this gave them more rights.
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Theme- Fear and Suspicion can destroy society How many societies have been torn apart and destroyed due to the fear of something unknown or “unnatural”? Three of different occasions come to mind when thinking about the idea of a society being destroyed or even just rocked by fear and suspicion. The first of which is depicted in The Crucible written about the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in the early 1950’s which was when another of the three occasions
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web of lies is the result of his inability to think straight due to his jealousy of Desdemona along with Iago’s success in manipulating the general population. He was heartbroken and jealous of his wife’s supposed betrayal. This was supported by the fact that Iago had not just fooled Othello into believing his lies‚ all the characters within the play had believed in Iago’s lies. To strengthen the proposed theme further‚ it can be noted that Iago is a very manipulative person whilst Othello is the
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