The Crucible: Who is to blame? In the play‚ The Crucible‚ who is to blame for the 1692 witchcraft trials of Salem‚ Massachusetts? Abigail Williams is to blame; she is a mean and vindictive person. She always wants her way‚ no matter who she hurts in the process. Throughout the play her accusations and lies cause many people pain and suffering‚ costing nineteen people their life’s. She led a group of twelve girls and made them lie to save herself from getting in trouble. Since Abigail would do anything
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ both Deputy Governor Danforth and Reverend Hale represent two significant characters that depict the flaws and deficiencies of mankind. Both men mindlessly condemn and judge in order to rid Salem of the supposedly satanic. Both men eventually realize their hypocrisy; however‚ while Hale acknowledges his folly‚ Danforth obstinately continues to castigate the alleged to maintain his reputation. Arthur Miller‚ in his work‚ The Crucible‚ punctuates the rigid tenacity
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They don’t believe in themselves. Mary Warren in The Crucible demonstrates this by not believing in herself and settling for being a “follower”. Mary however‚ has a sincere sense of loyalty to John Proctor her employer. Mary Warren goes through an inner battle of peer pressure and her loyalty to Proctor. Mary’s yearning to fit in and loyalty to Proctor develops the theme that peer pressure easily overcomes loyalty. In the beginning of The Crucible‚ Mary Warren struggles with an inner sense of belonging
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colorful spectrum which is our emotions‚ guilt is one of the most influential feeling of them all. Guilt‚ for lack of better terms is the feeling of responsibility for the misfortune of other‚ at least‚ that is what the emotion is intended for. The true purpose of guilt is to allow an individual to understand their situations‚ the consequence their under‚ and to amend their actions. However‚ in doing so guilt often than not causes more trouble than good. For some guilt helps in developing a person‚ making
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consciousnesses. Even though their sense of morality is weak when they chase their desires‚ their consciousness never disappears in their mind. Their guilt that comes from their morality is so heavy that it erodes them gradually and eventually leads to their self-destruction. Lady Macbeth shows a strong desire of becoming queen even when she first
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The Crucible: Act One 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? * The opening scene was held in the Salem in the Spring of year 1692 2. Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? * Parris sent for Reverend Hale to see what is going on with his sick daughter‚ Betty. 3. What do we learn about the events in the forest and Abigail Williams’ connections with the Proctor family? * Abigail is in love with John Proctor and drank some charm to
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At the beginning of “Macbeth”‚ Macbeth is a true soldier who has no guilt within himself and he is proud of killing people fighting in battles. Once he has murdered King Duncan‚ his is haunted with guilt‚ he cannot sleep‚ enter a room and he is full with agony. This leads him to further consequences. But surly‚ no one can murder some without pay the consequences. Macbeth guilt starts to develop after the killing of Duncan. Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth shortly after the killing of Duncan on Act
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Imagine surviving the Holocaust while millions of other people have perished. Dying people from left to right. You honestly wanted to help them‚ however you could not.Would you feel the guilt that you were alive while the person next to you did not? Even if you had the chance‚ would you even have saved them? Tons of the survivors wanted to forget this historical event‚ although they could not. While many consider the Holocaust in the past‚ for the survivors‚ the horror will never be completely over
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The guilt that Macbeth feels is real from the start. It can be evaluated throughout the play with how he acts and some things he says. When Macbeth had killed Duncan‚ the guilt is obvious as soon after committing the bad deed. Macbeth’s guilt is evident that when a servant had said “God bless us‚” Macbeth couldn’t “say “Amen”” (2.2.28). He isn’t able to bring himself to say it due to him knowing that he had just killed a man for his own selfish gain. Macbeth knows that what he did was a horrible
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right and wrong. In the Crucible‚ the idea of conscience in strongly emphasized. Miller himself said‚ "No critic seemed to sense what I was after [which was] the conflict between a man’s raw deeds and his conception of himself; the question of whether conscience is in fact an organic part of the human being‚ and what happens when it is handed over not merely to the state or the mores of the time but to one’s friend or wife." The idea of conscience in the play The Crucible is based very much on
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