determine that it is right or wrong. While justice is meant to be administered with the utmost fairness and equality‚ Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible demonstrates that this does not always prevail. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ the citizens of Salem seem to think that law and justice are the same thing. However‚ this is not true. In act three‚ Danforth says “You must understand‚ sir‚ that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it‚ there be no road between. This is a sharp
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AP Language and Composition 3 December 2012 Factual Changes Within The Crucible While reading Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ the audience may believe the play is a literal representation of the events that occurred in the Salem Witch Trials. Despite this‚ many aspects of the play are in fact fictional. Arthur Miller concocted each of the fictive details in the play purposely. Behind each of the modifications Miller made‚ lies a specific reason for that particular change. Within The Crucible‚
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an introduction to The Crucible‚ his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem‚ Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events‚ Miller’s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem‚ rumours that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town’s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch‚ self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that
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Crucible In The Crucible‚ the community of Salem was depicted as motivated by fear‚ greed‚ and revenge shown by the witch trials. Some people of the community are afraid for their lives of being condemned a witch‚ while others take advantage of those fears. As a result‚ people will do anything to satisfy the motivation including betrayal. In The Crucible‚ three types of betrayal are evident which are the betrayal of oneself‚ theocracy‚ and community. In Salem‚ the puritan society is supposed to be a
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fear as an advantage over others.Throughout the play The Crucible‚ the author develops the theme that the fear of the unknown causes hysteria.This theme is seen throughout the novel and is used mainly by Abigail Williams who gains power during the Salem witch trials of 1692. She uses the fear factor to protect herself and to manipulate others.Other factors of Fear are shown when we see “Fear of the Devil” theme in the novel and how everyone fears that the devil takes control of theme and they fear that
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The Struggle for Individuality and Independence Imagine standing with a crowd of people watching a friend about to get hung. That is what it was like for many people in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. In Arthur Miller’s “Crucible”(1953)‚ which puts the reader‚ back in time to the Salem witch trails. The main character‚ John Proctor struggles between conforming to his society and staying true to his beliefs. Despite his village believing in a group of crazy girls‚ John Proctor is willing to give
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a very wise piece that perfectly explains the story of two time periods. Although Miller literally wrote about the Salem witch trials‚ his purpose was to describe the McCarthy trials which teaches many ideas about human life both generally and regarding politics. The two time periods were more than two and a half centuries apart‚ yet they had many factors that overlapped. Miller explains the McCarthy trials through The Crucible by teaching people’s fears‚ faults‚ and
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of the witches of Disney‚ like: Ursula‚ Maleficent or The Evil Witch in snow white. Some people may even think of things like the witch seen in Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Hocus Pocus‚ or Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Regardless of what you are currently thinking about I can tell you that in most cases you are completely wrong as to the accuracy of what has happened historically in history. My good friend Marriam Webster defines the word witch as follows: 1: one that is credited with usually malignant supernatural
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Irony in The Crucible In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible there is a severe amount of irony during the Salem witch trials. The idea of the witch trials was to find peace in Salem but dolefully brought conflict and death to the community. There are numerous events that pertain irony such as Elizabeth lying to the court about her husband committing adultery‚ how the society was supposed to be moral but is very greedy and cold‚ and how the court system is not based on justice but merely about gaining
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friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court—the Devil is alive in Salem‚ and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points! …in great pain: Man‚ remember‚ until an hour before the Devil fell‚ God thought him beautiful in Heaven” (1244). Mass paranoia‚ confusion‚ fear Despite being an educated man‚ Hale is fully embracing the witch-hunt and keeps advocating it. The people of Salem are too afraid to question the validity of the witchcraft claims because even “God
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