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    In Arthur Miller ’s The Crucible‚ Abigail demonstrates the emotions of love‚ determination‚ and cunningness. Abigail expresses a love through power and control over the village of Salem. She infrequently takes desperate measures in order to make sure John Proctor will renounce Elizabeth. Abigail takes advantage of the events taking place in the village. In Arthur Miller ’s 1953 The Crucible‚ Abigail Williams demonstrates the emotions of love‚ determination and cunningness because of her love for

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    Critical Issues in Literature-The Crucible Name Piece Assignment Common Core Standards W 11.3‚ SL 11.6. L 11.2 At the end of the play‚ John Proctor refuses to sign his name to the written confession (stating that he participated in witchcraft). He responds to Danforth by saying‚ “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name?” For this

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    From the reading‚ Should trees have standing‚ written by professor Christopher Stone in USC‚ analyzing and challenging the legal premise of nature should be treat as objects in the eyes under the law of rights. In the reading‚ the author argue the fundamental basis need to be rewritten for the destruction of nature. In the beginning of the reading‚ the author used the history of law to suggest a parallel development that there never was a pure state of nature. No “right” existed except in

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    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the whirlwind events of the Salem witch trials stem from the community’s bottled up bitterness over political‚ financial‚ and personal issues. This devil-worship scandal is quickly seized by Abigail Williams as an opportunity to seek power and revenge. Abigail is a small-minded girl overflowed with resentment. She is an unmarried woman and also an orphan. Abigail must take the humble position of a servant‚ but her pride causes her to resent her low position on the social

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    Merton did not just mean to put words down on a piece of paper; it has meaning to everyday people and everyday life. A hero is not always a person in a cape‚ but also a man who saves a kitten from a tree or stands up for someone who is too afraid to do it themselves. In the play The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ the small town of Salem experienced a certain turn of events to their quiet area known as the Salem witch trials. Now‚ a hero can come in any size‚ shape‚ or form‚ but this hero came in the form

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    The Crucible Franklin D. Roosevelt once said‚ “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In other words‚ Roosevelt may be saying that the only thing to be worried of is the feelings or actions that follow that scared feeling. This allegory and play written by Arthur Miller fits this quotation perfectly. Throughout The Crucible‚ Abigail and Mary Warren‚ grow an internal conflict that later turns into the plays external conflict. Abigail is a young girl who uses her imagination and intimidating

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    The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It was initially called "The Chronicles of Sarah Good". It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism‚ when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists.[1] Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and

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    Sebastian Jacques English 11: Honors Closing the Door on the Crucible This is exactly what you as readers have been waiting for‚ the final and most exciting scene from the play the Crucible. When John Proctor is dealing with is mind boggling internal conflict‚ something happens to him‚ earlier in the play‚ all Proctor though about what was at stake that would affect him like his name‚ his soul and even his life‚ but now the tables have turned. Proctor is experiencing and epiphany‚ a sudden realization

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    Essay for The Crucible * Compare the roles that Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams play in The Crucible. In the play‚ The Crucible‚ there are a variety of characters that serve various purposes‚ a primary one being a representative of the people that were actually present during the Salem Witch Trials and The McCarthyism era. Albeit different people‚ many of the people presented in both of these times had similar roles to play in the grand scheme of things‚ and thus‚ Arthur Miller created

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    In The Crucible‚ there are a few differences and many similarities between the book and the movie. The beginning of the movie the girls are in the forest dancing around a fire‚ with a pot above it and swinging a dead bird over it as they dance. Also while there in the woods Abigail drinks blood‚ and they get caught from Mr. Parris. But in the book you don’t find out what really happened in the forest till later in the story‚ we don’t hear about all the conjuring spirits or drinking of the blood till

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