with john proctor. 4) What information about Thomas Putnam does Arthur Miller tell us in his expository aside? What does Ann Putnam claim in the play about her dead babies? Thomas Putnam is a wealthy man and that the village should look or appreciate him more. Her baby’s were murdered by a women. 5) Before the arrival of John Hale‚ what are some of the subjects for petty disagreement among John Proctor‚ Giles Corey‚ Thomas Putnam‚ and Samuel Parris? They were disagreeing about the
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One may find Abigail Williams‚ The Putnams‚ and Mary Warren to blame. Abigail was manipulative‚ The Putnams were very jealous‚ and Mary Warren was weak-will. Society can be destroyed by powerful forces of jealousy‚ hypocrisy and hysteria. Jealousy can lead you to do terrible things. Jealousy played a big role in who was to blame for the deaths in Salem. The Putnams were a small family‚ they had seven out of eight children and none survived but one. Mrs. Putnam was a very jealous person when it came
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Act I 1. What does the “spareness” of the Puritan setting reveal about the lives of the townspeople of Salem? The setting mirrors the Puritans’ beliefs. The lack of ornamentation demonstrates the Puritan aversion to vanity and frivolous pursuits. 2. Explain the significance of the forest to the Puritans. It was the epitome of evil. As far as the Puritans were concerned‚ the Native Americans were murderous heathens. The animals periodically attacked. There was no wilderness in England‚ so the
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Salem witch trials spread across massachusetts like a plague. A war started by jealousy‚ carried on by reputation and ended in tragedy. In the novel‚ the Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ the Parris family‚ the Procter Family‚ Giles Corey‚ and the Putnam family can be compared and contrasted to their real life personas. Miller demonstrates a rather dramatic story of a group of families pulled together and ripped apart due to a jealous little girl. But his has some big differences to reality. Tituba
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herself. The grudge between the Proctors and Abigail is not the only one themed in The Crucible. For example‚ Giles Corey has a grudge with Thomas Putnam because Putnam had accused Jacobs of witchcraft so that he could buy his land. Giles accuses Putnam of this by saying‚ "Thomas Putnam is reaching out for land!" (Miller‚ pg 958) He knows that Putnam is the only one in Salem who can afford Jacobs’s land if it were to be auctioned off. These are just two of the many examples of the role that grudges
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In Our Kids‚ Robert Putnam argues that the American Dream of equal opportunity has all but ceased to exist in recent years. Driven primarily by the economic divergence of the upper and lower classes‚ children of today overwhelming follow in the educational and economic footsteps of their parents. These economic factors are then further perpetuated and entrenched by the lifestyle gap between the different classes. Spurred on by geographic sorting and the decline of US manufacturing‚ inequality on
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Putnam begins his journey of semantic refutation‚ with the natural first step since Socrates and the Sophists. That of systematically breaking down the opposing argument‚ the central thesis of his writing. That opposition being the skeptical argument‚ of: 1) If I know that P‚ then I know that I am not a BIV 2) I don’t know that I am not a BIV 3) Thus‚ I do not know P. This is akin to the question posed by Descartes‚ and the inability to legitimately verify that our own experience isn’t an individual
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Massachusetts experienced a horrific religious episode. The time known as the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 cost the life of 20 men and women. One of the contributing factors that led to this incident was the social rivalry of the Putnam and Porter families. The Putnam family resented the Porters and blamed them for their loss of wealth and political influence. The Salem witch trials were also largely caused by Puritans who were stubbornly trying to keep grasp of religious power and prestige in New
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University Catalog January– December 2012 Updated October 2012 2804 Mission College Blvd. Suite 240‚ Santa Clara‚ CA 95054 Henley-Putnam.edu Henley-Putnam University Catalog of Degree Programs Table of Contents UNIVERSITY INFORMATION ............................................................................................ 5 A MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER AND CEO .................................................................................................... 5 MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY
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very best and worst in Miller’s characters. The message of the play is that communities contain both good and bad elements. This is most clearly manifested in the symbolism of the crucible itself‚ and the characterisations of John Proctor‚ and Thomas Putnam. The presence of good and bad in the community is represented through the symbol of the crucible. The play’s title refers to a vessel in which metals are heated to separate the pure metal from the impurities. Each individual subjected to the ordeal
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