The author‚ Arthur Miller‚ of a timeless classic play The Crucible tells us the story of a small town not too far from Salem where a young girl by the name of Abigail Williams brings witchcraft claims on the most highly respected and innocent people in the town. Eventually others close to Abigail and other envious locals in the town begin to accuse nearly half the town of witchcraft for personal gain. The harsh‚ yet true reality of human behavior when faced with jealousy and greed is displayed throughout
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"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller is a play in which many innocent characters die. Although the main message of the play is the restoration of hope to the village of Salem in the 17th century‚ it leaves us with many questions of how much hope we should place in our own society. The outcome of the play did not end in hope for many characters. As accusations permeated through the village‚ many innocent were falsely accused and condemned. Even the most ’godly’ characters were killed such as Rebecca Nurse
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The Crucible Essay The word crucible means a severe test or a vessel of a very refractory material (as porcelain) used for melting and claiming a substance that requires a high degree of heat. It also means a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development If you combine these three definitions‚ you come up with a container where under high heat (or in Miller’s case...the stress of being accused of witchcraft (or communism under McCarthy))
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“The Crucible‚” the title Arthur Miller’s gave his play. Nowhere in the whole play is the title even mentioned. This makes one curious to find out the reason why. Why would Arthur Miller name his play “The Crucible” and not mention it in his play? There could be many reasons why he chose this title. Webster’s dictionary defines crucible as a vessel of a very refractory material used for melting a substance that requires a high degree of heat. Crucible is also defined as a severe test. The last definition
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Anemia August 11‚ 2011 (Kansas City‚ Missouri) — Taking less blood from acute-MI patients for diagnostic tests may improve patient outcomes by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired anemia‚ a new study published online August 8‚ 2011 in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests [1]. Multiple studies have shown that hospital-acquired anemia is associated with greater mortality and worse health status in patients with acute MI‚ but the relationship between diagnostic phlebotomy and the risk of hospital-acquired
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Management Principles and Theories 1. Absorptive Capacity Theory This theory pertains to the ability of the organization to absorb and acknowledge the importance of new information and updates that will help improve the efficiency of each member of the organization. An organization that can adapt to changes‚ learn new knowledge and is able to incorporate these to every member of the organization yields better results rather than an organization that does not value new knowledge and remains
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Salem Times ESTABLISHED 1684 SALEM‚ MASSACHUSETTS MAY 20th‚ 1692 WANTED! PICTURED ABOVE LEFT TO RIGHT: ELIZABETH PROCTOR‚ REBECCA NURSE‚ MARTHA COREY‚ GILES COREY‚ SARAH GOOD MANY MORE HAVE BEEN ACCUSED AND ARE WANTED BY JUDGE DANFORTH WANTED FOR WITCHCRAFT• Elizabeth Proctor‚ Rebecca Nurse‚ Martha and Giles Corey‚ and Sarah Good sound like the names of well-respected members of Salem. However‚ they and many others are wanted for witchcraft. They have
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The Crucible- Comprehension Study Questions 1. There are many factors that contribute to the initiation and the escalation of the witch hunts in Salem. Partisans truly believed in the existence of witches‚ as it was recognize as a sin against God in the bible. This caused their society to accredit any unnatural happenings to the Devil. When Ruth and Betty cannot wake‚ Ann Putnam blames her daughters unconscious state and the deaths of her unbaptized babies on witchery. Witchcraft in Salem is
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A crucible: A severe test or trial or a pot where metals are melted under a high heat. When things are under extreme stress or pressure they change into something else and react in different ways. People can change just like metals do in crucibles. They can change personalities do things that no one expected them to do. Reverend Parris‚ Reverend Hale‚ and John Proctor in The Crucible‚ changed under pressure and did things that were unexpected when they were were under great pressure. Reverend Parris’s
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if people are accused of being witches then it’s “Ipso facto” and they are guilty (103). Francis Nurse then gives a petition to Danforth. Instead of looking at it as evidence he tells Hathorne to “arrest for examination” the 91 names on the petition (97). Danforth cannot think of the girls as a lie because his behavior prevents him.
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