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    Contagion In The Crucible

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    diseases.A similar situation occurs in the play crucible the june bug is that people were ill. People were lying about the situations and their problems. People crave attention and this is true that people were treated very harshly in the crucible and the june bug contagion.People face lot of difficult challenges.The mass hysteria resulting from The Crucible and The June Bug contagion occur due to paranoia‚fear‚and a feeling of helplessness. The Crucible and June Bug contagion occurred due to Paranoia

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    Arthur Miller use a specific character to portray how people solve or fail to solve moral problems? A crucible refers to a container made of a substance that can resist great heat‚ for melting. In “The Crucible” the author uses characters that have moral problems that they either solve or fail to solve. John Proctor‚ Abigail‚ and Reverend Hale are considered the main characters in “The Crucible”. Abigail’s moral problem is lying. Abigail failed to solve her moral problem by choosing to lie to

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    Crucible Essay

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    Cruicible Essay Pride is a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one’s position or character; self-respect; self-esteem‚ but once your pride becomes overbearing and arrogant‚ it turns into hubris The crucible is a historical play that is based on events of the Salem witchcraft trials‚ which took place in a tiny Puritan village in the settlement of Massachusetts in 1692. The play commences in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris‚ whose daughter‚ Betty‚ lays ill. Main characters are:

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    Summary Of The Crucible

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    The Crucible The title of the play is called the Crucible By: Arthur Miller. This play is basically about how a couple of people is accused of witchcraft in a little town called Salem. People where very religious in this town and got rid of anything they though was connected to the devil. The most admirable character is Mary Warren she is very honest and innocent. Mary went to the trials‚ she made the doll that basically put Elizabeth in jail‚ When proctor made her lie she still came out and told

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    Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953. He wrote it because in the 1950’s many things were happening to him that caused him to relate to the Salem witch trials. This is the historical evidence given in the overture. The modern issues which is individual freedom U.S conformity in the play. This showed how The Crucible was a different time period but the modern issues were reflecting the old ones. Another piece of historical evidence is Miller wrote the play to connect his real life where Senator

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    Human Nature VS Cinematography Fear often breeds superstitions‚ but more often‚ fear makes a person bend to the authority and make desperate choices. In Author Miller’s 1953 play‚ The Crucible‚ Miller comments on the human’s natural tendency to be susceptible to fear and the compromises people make in fear of their own life. The play was well- liked by the public and later in 1996‚ under director Nicholas Hytner‚ was made into a film that is still being reviewed today. With the improvement

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    Belonging - the Crucible

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    group‚ a family‚ a unit‚ and one can also be isolated from groups and rejected from communities. Through analysis of The Crucible by Arthur Miller in the milieu of the related texts The Outsiders by SE Hinton and the feature article‚ A Dangerous mind offer an insight into the concept of belonging is presented‚ and is substantiated through the use of literary devices. In The Crucible‚ belonging is explored through a theme of persecution‚ whereby one must conform to the norms of society in order to

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    The Crucible and Quote

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    with this quote‚ because there are many real life situations that can prove it‚ along with the situations portrayed in most literary works. Two pieces of literature I can relate to this quote would be “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck‚ and “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Both these books relate to the quote for the fact that the main protagonists‚ or in this case‚ the goodness‚ both get killed because of the antagonists‚ in this case‚ the evil that will defeat them. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

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    Symbolism in the Crucible

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    Symbols of the Crucible The Doll - What original started of as an innocent gift from a scared little girl turned into tangible evidence to put poor Mrs. Goody Proctor away for good. Mary Warren‚ a feeble minded follower who almost has a heart‚ manages to do something admirable by making Goody Proctor a nice doll. Later in the novel Abigail Williams accuses Goody of witchcraft. The deciding factor that convicts Goody is the doll. Dolls have always been associated with evil‚ witchcraft‚ and voodoo

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    In Arthur Miller’s playwright‚ The Crucible‚ the reader is exposed to different examples of what could be considered a dystopian society. A dystopia is a society characterized by human misery and unhappiness. The characteristics of a dystopian society in The Crucible include religious control and this playwright contains a dystopian protagonist. Throughout The Crucible‚ the townspeople in Salem‚ Massachusetts are living in a theocratic government. A theocratic government is a government subject

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