the woods. Reverend Parris finds them. Ruth Putman is trying to talk too the spirits of her dead siblings too find out why they died ‚ at the request of her mother. Abby Williams is trying to make a potion to kill Elizabeth‚ John Proctors wife‚ because Abby had an affair with John and now wants to have him to herself. Tituba ‚is who Ruth goes to about speaking to her siblings. After the girls are caught in the woods Betty ‚ Reverend Parris’ daughter‚ and Ruth fall ill. The doctors are called and a
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How does Arthur Miller create drama and tension in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? The Crucible is a play‚ which explores the witch- hunting hysteria that happened in Salem 1692. Miller uses this “organized mass-hysteria”[1] to comment on his own similar experience during the 1950s. Through “The Crucible”‚ Miller is able to draw an analogy between the hysteria of the Salem witch-trails and its modern parallel of the anti communist ‘witch-hunts’ which occurred due to the HUAC-House of un-American Committee
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He doesn’t care about his friends nor his community. Instead‚ owning more land is considered more important to him than them. This shows he is greedy without any hesitation. He’s so low‚ that he uses his daughter Ruth to prosecute Old man Jacobs‚ rather than himself. And in the movie‚ I couldn’t help but feel sorry for this dude. Setting (time/place): Court room‚ ACT III Characterization: remorseless‚ stoked and happy because he’s getting his land Conflict:
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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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confess her sin. Abigail refuses to disclose any information about the incident in the woods due to fear of punishment. In order to make sure that she does not get punished‚ she scolds the other girls that are with her‚ “We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. Let either of you breathe a word or the edge of a word‚ and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”(19). Knowing that their actions will
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Giles Corey’s accusation against Thomas Putnam is he’s reaching out for land. His proof is he was told by an honest man that he overheard Putnam say that he told Ruth to accuse Mr. Jacob of witchcraft to obtain his land. Giles doesn’t reveal his source because he doesn’t want another innocent person to be arrested. The consequence for his silence is he
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smart –Witchcraft “specialist” * Sarah Good: -Older woman –Widowed –Homeless * Goody Osburn: -Older woman –Half witted –Begs * Mary Warren: -18 years old –“nanny” for the Proctors (7 months after Abby was) -subservient * Thomas and Ann Putnam:
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Dishonesty and lying are huge factors in The Crucible and in society today. We are all guilty of lying or being dishonest at one point in time. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller in the 1952‚ is based in Salem Massachusetts. The book is centered around witchcraft being committed by local citizens in Salem. In the book John Proctor and Abigail Williams are the two main characters that are dishonest throughout the book. Witchcraft is known throughout Salem at the time because multiple groups of
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adventure. There were only two people lower than them in status‚ and that would be Abigail and Tituba because Abigail was an orphan‚ and Tituba a black slave. She convinced Tituba‚ to sing songs from Barbados about witchcraft. Abby then persuaded Ruth Putnam to believe that Tituba would be able to conjure up the spirits of her dead siblings. If it worked then she could bring to light the mystery behind all of her dead siblings. In getting others to do it with her‚ she will not be the only one to be
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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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