Todd Closson English 8/24/14 The Crucible Society trusts those that conform‚ and distrusts those that don’t. One advantage of conforming to societies expectations is that you gain trust from the society. People who don’t conform aren’t trusted. One disadvantage is that you join the group‚ so you’re not technically an individual anymore in your own right. In the novel The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller explains the causes of hysteria‚ mob mentality‚ scapegoating by showing the conflicts within a society
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Title Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible set in 1692‚ takes place in a small village in Salem‚ Massachusetts. At this time many puritans‚ who were of greater strictness in religious discipline‚ were to believe in witchcraft and considered it a very wrongful sin. This had led to much hysteria around the village. Miller’s work The Crucible presents a study of Manipulation‚ a tragic hero and hysteria in Salem during the 1600’s. In Arthur Miller ’s novel "The Crucible‚” the abuse of power and the use
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He is very blunt and straightforward in his thinking and opinions. Corey is known to be on good terms with John Proctor and Francis Nurse. He is famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. His wife Martha Corey is accused of witchcraft‚ and he himself is accused and accounted for witchcraft and is later on pressed to death with large stones. Elizabeth Proctor is the wife of John Proctor. She discovered an affair going on between her husband and Abigail Williams and turned Abigail out of her house
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the whirlwind events of the Salem witch trials stem from the community’s bottled up bitterness over political‚ financial‚ and personal issues. This devil-worship scandal is quickly seized by Abigail Williams as an opportunity to seek power and revenge. Abigail is a small-minded girl overflowed with resentment. She is an unmarried woman and also an orphan. Abigail must take the humble position of a servant‚ but her pride causes her to resent her low position on the social
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The Crucible Franklin D. Roosevelt once said‚ “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In other words‚ Roosevelt may be saying that the only thing to be worried of is the feelings or actions that follow that scared feeling. This allegory and play written by Arthur Miller fits this quotation perfectly. Throughout The Crucible‚ Abigail and Mary Warren‚ grow an internal conflict that later turns into the plays external conflict. Abigail is a young girl who uses her imagination and intimidating
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John proctor is a good man. Despite his confessions to the court they continue to question him and leave him With 2 choices‚ to Confess to witchcraft or stay true to his belief. He is confused by what he wants and what is right. All he wants is to keep his honor which he refers as his name. Hale asks Elizabeth to speak to proctor and convince him to confess. Yet when she speak proctor he tells her “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man. My honesty is broke‚ Elizabeth;
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The trials in The Crucible take place against the backdrop of a deeply religious and superstitious society‚ and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their community is God’s work. However‚ there are plenty of simmering feuds and rivalries in the small town that have nothing to do with religion‚ and many Salem residents take advantage of the trials to express long-held grudges and exact revenge on their enemies. Abigail‚ the original source of the hysteria
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Journal Topics for The Crucible As you read the play over the next few days‚ choose any 3 of the following topics and respond to them in a google document or on paper. Each response must be at least 250 words. You must include references to the text and provide support for all of your claims. Please use your best writing- no grammatical/spelling/capitalization errors- divide ideas using paragraphs etc. Each journal entry is 20 pts. You may do one more extra credit. Again‚ we are working on
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John Proctor: A Hero or a Fool?In Arthur Miller’s famous allegorical play The Crucible ‚the main characterJohn Proctor‚ a young defiant yet respected farmer‚ shows heroic characteristicsthrough intricate situations of theocratic injustice. Set in hysteria and chaos‚the witch trials of Salem village as the trials unfold Proctor finds himself in adifficult situation in which his decision and actions decide not only his fate but thefate of many innocent people like himself. In the community‚ people
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Brian Witkowski English/Communications III 1/8/2015 Sparing the Innocent Throughout the Crucible‚ there were many brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for a greater cause. When being accused of witchcraft‚ many of them denied these accusations because they were not true causing them to be put to death. They all tried to bring light to the fact that they were innocent‚ with no avail. Therefore‚ it is admirable to sacrifice oneself and spare the innocent‚ rather than sacrifice others in
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