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    Faulkner’s masterful technique creates a first person look into the unraveling mind of a time obsessed boy. In The Sound and The Fury‚ by William Faulkner‚ Quentin Compson slings to the past and tries desperately to stay afloat. As the old order crumbles and sinks around him‚ Quentin has to make a choice whether to sink or to float. Like Quentin‚ Faulkner saw how society was changing‚ which is where he probably got the idea for the character. Faulkner took inspiration from his experiences growing

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    village‚ Mbanato. Achebe incorporates literary devices such as detail‚ dialogue‚ and analogy to reveal the Igbo tradition of eating together as friends and the challenges this traditions experiences which is people not inviting friends to feast together or people having feats as a form of retribution. Okonkwo threw this feast just to gather everyone together. Achebe successfully utilizes these devices to enhance his writing. Dialogue is a noticeable device used. Okonkwo claimed that “[He] have only

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    and characterization to prove that the mood creates a sense of a make belief reality. To begin‚ Burton uses lighting to create a strange but fantastical mood. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ grey filters‚ an example of low key lighting‚ were used to make Charlie’s entire life seem cold and dark. But when the kids got inside of Willy Wonka’s factory‚ the scene is flooded with light and everything is so colorful‚ which is an example of high key lighting.The contrasting of lightness and darkness

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    daughter was almost dead he was concerned about how the girls dancing in the forest naked would‚ ruin his reputation with the people‚ and if it would cause him to step down from the pulpit “There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit” (Miller). Parris later in the story begged Danforth to suspend the trials‚ not because he wanted justice‚ but he feared the townspeople. Many people did not have integrity and choose to confess of doing witchcraft‚ so they would not die but would forever

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    Justice is meant to be administered with the upmost fairness and equality‚ although Aurther Millers play The Crucible demonstrates that this does not always prevail‚ and in numerous circumstances the forces of injustices are exposed. Those appointed to administer justice often misuse their power resulting in a lack of justice. The judges in the court of Salam do not deliver justice fairly and accuse those who are innocent without any tangible evidence. In addition‚ Justice failed to protect the

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    Sara North April 21‚ 2013 Why the “Crucible”? Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1951 in direct response to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communism scare. Miller wanted the American people to convey the pain caused by false accusations and relate it to the Salem witch hunts. Sen. McCarthy accused a huge number of high profile Americans of being communists. In doing so‚ he ruined those people’s careers. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible‚ innocent people were convicted and put on trial for witchcraft

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    life‚ but in the community of saints in the next. Just how shallow those graves were‚ however‚ is evident from the fact that the people buried there were not eradicated from history: their names remain with us to this day‚ not least because of Arthur Miller‚ for whom past events and present realities have always been pressed together by a moral logic. In his hands the ghosts of those who died have proved real enough even if the witches they were presumed to be were little more than fantasies conjured

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    What parallels can you find to this kind of behavior in the play? - I think he took the pen as an impulse. He used to steal when he was younger so I think it just happened. It parallels with his stealing when he was younger. In a memory scene‚ we learn of Willy’s relationship with the woman. How did Biff’s knowledge of this relationship affect him? - His knowledge

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    Consider to Be More Responsible for John’s Death‚ and why? In Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible"‚ there are two characters that differ in every aspect: Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. This ranges from the way they handle situations‚ their personalities‚ to their social statuses‚ history and so forth. Their social statuses can only be described as very contrasting: Abigail Williams is an orphan and the niece of Reverend Parris. She used to work as a servant for the Proctors‚ but her one night stand

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    conform to any and all decisions made by the majority‚ no matter how heinous or ludicrous. From this we can say fear plays a role of conformity‚ this is shown through the early Americans during the Age of Faith and also displayed in Arthur Miller’s playwright “The Crucible” When Reverend Parris discovered the witch craft that had taken place in the woods‚ Abigail Williams concentrated solely on salvaging her reputation. She soon noticed that when a slave woman named Tituba confesses to acquainting

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