John Proctor’s Secret Often in literature‚ a character’s success in achieving goals depends on keeping a secret and divulging it only at the right moment‚ if at all. In the play‚ The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ the main character‚ John Proctor is sucked into the witchcraft trials‚ unable to save the town from their own hysteria‚ and save his reputation. As John Proctor deals with the witchcraft trials‚ and becomes more personally involved‚ he develops into a character that better understands the
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In the late 1600’s Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ the Salem Witch Trials was conceivably thought of as terrifying or even unjustified. Left and right‚ convictions of witchcraft were put on other villagers in Salem. Abigail and other girls‚ Tituba‚ Proctor‚ and others are to be blamed for the deaths and events in Salem‚ but Reverend Parris seems to have the bigger faults. Parris’s childish and avaricious characteristics caused the deaths of many innocent people. Reverend Parris enacted an essential role in
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Throughout Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ there are a series of prevailing questions: “Who was conspiring against you? Might you be a witch and not know it? Can an innocent person be guilty? Could anyone think themselves safe?” (Schiff 4). These questions are evidence of the hysteria that swept through Salem‚ Massachusetts during the winter of 1692 and again during the peak of the anti-communist revolution in the 1950’s. In The Crucible‚ innocent people were in danger of being accused of witchcraft
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Can you recall anyone in history who had extreme beliefs? In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible‚” which talks about the Salem witch trials‚ there are parallels to the McCarthy era because‚ they were both very tense times. People were being accused of conspiring and had to face consequences for actions they might have not even done. People were being falsely accused of conspiring against God. In Salem the people were very avid about their religion‚ therefor being accused of witchcraft was as to be conspiring
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Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953‚ just when the Second World War had ended. But still there was a battle between the capitalists and the communists. Arthur Miller wrote this book because of the incidents that occurred during the 1950’s. Senator Joseph McCarthy had a feeling of communism in the United States. So he starts a witch hunt to find the communists in the United States and he targeted celebrities of Hollywood such as Helen Keller‚ Langston Hughes and Charlie Chaplin put them all on
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The cold‚ sniveling woman put me out of her house for things out of my control. John Proctor is in love with me‚ and she is envious of such a thing. Elizabeth has blackened my name throughout the village and‚ worst of all‚ made John bend at her will. No matter how much I plead‚ he will not come close to me‚ even if it kills him. I wish that he would look up at my window and be proud of doing so. I said I
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with the impression that he is a person who has a life based on austerity because he is the Governor. He later compares Bellingham to John The Baptist because of Bellingham’s shirt by saying‚ “His head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger.” John the Baptist was beheaded and had his head served on a charger which shows Hawthorne’s comparison John and Bellingham in a dark‚ yet
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Why whenever trouble occurs in Salem‚ Abigail is always‚ always involved. Why‚ oh why did she have to be my niece? Now my Betty’s in the forest doing God knows what. With her countless mistakes starting with ‘the incident’ at the Proctor household‚ it makes me regret my decision to welcome her into my loving home.” He snivelled angrily to himself. His mind wandered to ever convoluted and obscene action that in the wrong hands could destroy his parish. What were they doing? In the
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people are likely to believe him‚ Salem at this time is a theocracy and is ran by the bible so that means the minister is the highest rank possible at the time making Parris very trustworthy and reliable. Another encounter of this would be when Senator John McCarthy was making accusations against people during the Red Scare in the 1950’s. Many people thought that McCarthy was a complete whackjob because he was accusing people that were outstanding individuals in society at the time‚ but since he was
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I believe the illuminati is real because they are used in music. They are also shown by buildings or celebrities. There are conspiracy theories that the illuminati are real. There are many theories of if it is real or fake and there are reasons to all the questions. The illuminati are an organization of worshippers or followers to the devil. The illuminati are a foresight nation. They can control many living things and try to make everyone follow evil. Do you believe the illuminati is real or fake
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