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Betrayals in The 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
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against injustice is the duty that people need to do to bring justice. Bringing justice plays a huge part in The Crucible. The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch Trials and how it started. One of the main reasons so many people hanged for witchcraft was the fear of authority. It is clear that the courts are unjust‚ but no one spoke out against it until the end of the play. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller expresses the theme of “Defiance becoming the duty of the people in the face of injustice” using
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Throughout the play The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ one?s name is a very important motif that is carried out. Reputation is the general estimation in which a person is held by the public‚ as referred to by dictionary.com. Reputation is very important in Salem because public and private moralities are one and the same. Witchcraft plays a huge role throughout the book and if someone is being named a witch then that is a huge sin to Puritanism. Reputation is a huge key factor to even everyone?s daily
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?Irony is used extensively in The Crucible. Discuss three examples of irony in the play and the significance of each example. In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ irony is used a number of times throughout the play. The main example of irony would probably be how the town seems and acts to be like a group of friends and a tight-knit community‚ but by the end of the play‚ the town has turned against each other and it turns into a question of morality how everything flips upside-down. The society
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The Crucible I watched The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis‚ Winona Ryder‚ Joan Allen‚ and Paul Scofield. This movie is a play written by Arthur Miller‚ about the Salem witch trials in 1962 Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls are caught in the woods making love potions and dancing in the early morning. Because Salem was extremely religious the girls were forced to say the devil called upon them. Secrets‚ lies‚ and greed all led to innocent people being accused of witchcraft and executed.
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True Protagonist In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor shows his protagonist character by the respectable and honorable man he lives to be. In order to understand why John Proctor is the protagonist of the story‚ a definition of the word protagonist is indispensable. A protagonist is essentially the main character of a story‚ mostly known as the good character. The author spends most of his time on him‚ and usually the character changes or evolves during the course of the novel. The
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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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allusion because he wanted to express the importance that the Devil had on the characters of The Crucible. I think Miller thought this was necessary since it shows that they both need and want someone to blame for everything that is goes wrong in Salem (Miller 1260). They accuse people of being witches‚ who were there because of Lucifer. The use of this allusion several times throughout the Crucible suggests that the Puritans were kind of obsessed with Lucifer‚ thus revealing that Miller had high
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In this essay‚ I intend to analyse the historical content of The Crucible and its relevance in today ’s society. I believe that Arthur Miller ’s life and his experience of McCarthyism strongly influenced the writing of The Crucible. McCarthyism‚ named after Joseph McCarthy was a period of intense anti-communism‚ which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956. During this time the government of the United States persecuted the Communist party USA‚ its leadership‚ and many others suspected
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