Before the accusations: Dear Diary‚ I hate Elizabeth by heart. I am calling for revenge‚ oh God please hear me. And if God is not willing to fulfill my desire I will have to use other aid. I cannot stand the hurt in my bleeding heart anymore. John‚ oh John‚ it would be easier if you left your wife and flower out the purity of our love with me. We could leave; go to a place where we will be satisfied for the rest of our lives. But you broke my heart. I tried to couple with you. I still remember my
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Rashid Karriti Pd 4 Mrs. Podesta English III C.P. 2 December 2012 Literary Terms 1. John Proctor is the protagonist in the novel‚ “The Crucible.” 2. Luzhin is the antagonist in the novel‚ “Crime and Punishment.” 3. Round character 4. Flat character 5. The setting of “The Crucible” is Salem‚ a small town in Massachusetts in 1692. 6. The tone of “The Crucible” is very serious and tragic. 7. The central
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Novemeber 3‚2008 Modern Version of The Crucible Abigail Williams- Regina George Mary warren- Katy Betty- Gretchen The Girls – The plastics John Proctor- John Tucker Elizabeth Proctor- Ellie Giles Corey- Mclovin Martha Corey-rachel. Reverend Hale- Sister fanny Principle-Shane Setting- A high school in A small town in Michigan Plot- The Plastics are the head of the school. They run it and know exactly what to say and how far they need to go in order to get what they want. They have
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The destructive end in The Crucible just so happened to be hanging. The hanging itself is not the cause of the hysteria but the execution of good people. The people who were hanged were good people that refused to tarnish their names. John Proctor could have been given freedom but he argued “they think to go like saints. I like not to spoil their names”.(Miller Act IV) The mass hysteria only ended because these good people held onto their righteousness and made the village question what
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To what extent does John Proctor conform to the ideal tragic hero in “The Crucible”? The most well known definition of a tragic hero comes from the philosopher‚ Aristotle. When explaining a tragic hero‚ Aristotle states "The change in the hero’s fortunes be not from misery to happiness‚ but on the contrary‚ from happiness to misery‚ and the cause of it must not lie in any depravity but in some great error on his part." Also‚ he explains the four essential qualities that a tragic hero should possess
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John Proctor vs. Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible both have main characters that can relate to each other even though they are in two different stories. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ one of the main characters of The Scarlet Letter‚ is a respected reverend in society that commits a horrendous and sinful act‚ adultery‚ with a woman named Hester Prynne. John Proctor‚ a main character from The Crucible‚ commits adultery as well with his servant‚ Abigail Williams. These two characters‚ aside
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(1952)‚ John Proctor shows characteristics of being a tragic hero‚ through his actions throughout the play. Let us start with a simple question. What is a tragic hero? According to Arthur Miller in Tragedy and the Common Man‚ he says that all tragic heroes have one thing in common‚ "[a] tragic flaw‚" (paragraph 6). This tragic flaw is the thing that brings down the status of being a hero to a tragic hero. Honesty is one rule all heroes never dare to break. Throughout the play‚ John Proctor has shown
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The Crucible takes place in a real life town called Salem in Massachusetts where the Salem witch trials also took place at‚ during the life at Salem‚ there have some account of witchery within it and when the time came for the trials law‚ it strike salem and other towns very hard‚ accusing the innocents and others using the law to seek revenge of other for either greed/lust of items/land. while the corrupted ones use the law to it’s advantage by accusing others‚ jails and hangings were high by this
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The Crucible “I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria‚ who were frightened of life‚ who were desperate to reach out to another person…These seemingly fragile people are the strong people really (Williams: Twenty Years after Glass Menagerie).” Tennessee here captured the very essence of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The Crucible is all about the desperation‚ hysteria‚ and fear of Salem’s people. The main theme of The Crucible is fear. Hysteria and fear are
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Downfall from Arrogance The Crucible is a peculiar name to put for a play. In literal meaning‚ a crucible is a special pot in which you put materials in. The pot then goes in the fire‚ and you end up melting the contents‚ but not the pot itself. The way Miller named his play as The Crucible is what literary experts call symbolism. Arthur Miller’s basic purpose of writing this play was to signify that people react to situations in many different ways. In that same way‚ he symbolizes the attributes
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