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    Crucible - Summary

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    of the back of Tituba. To get even more praise and to become even more absolved she starts naming random names. Abigail with or without realising it starts something‚ that she may think she can control‚ but as the lies gather momentum and as the crucible burns hotter‚ she cannot and she has completely gone too far with the lying and cannot turn back. Abigail Williams’ lies and deceit is done to maintain her sense of control over the group and to ensure that what she covets or desires is what will

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    Crucible Connection

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    The Crucible Connection The worst words to hear when friends are fighting are “who said it” or “name names”. I was in a problematic situation a couple of weeks ago and I was asked that question and instead of naming names I lied and took the blame. The whole fight started because when I was hanging out with my two friends while waiting for my other two friends to come and meet us. My one friend said that one of the girls had a “big mouth and that you couldn’t trust her with any personal details”

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    The Crucible Girls

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    In the book The Crucible the girls portrayed a very demonic way of acting. They all claimed to be seeing spirits and they were controlled by Satan. Each girl followed the rest of the girls almost as if they were commanded to. They accused others for being witches and said that they were controlling them. This continues to go on until 19 people were dead by hanging and one pressed to stone. The girls presented their demonic ways of acting because they wanted revenge. The girls in Salem weren’t

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    Tyranny in the Crucible

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    Literature occasionally takes the form of mirror – reflecting and commenting on the situation in a society. In “The Crucible”‚ Arthur Miller‚ remarks on the tyranny obvious in the society of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the late seventeenth century. In the book‚ Timebends: A Life‚ Miller declares: “I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there — it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.” Tyranny denotes

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    Crucible Passages

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    Crucible Passages 1. Page 11 Parris: “I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire when I came on you. Why was she doing that? And I heard a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth. She were swaying like a dumb beast over that fire!” 2. Page 15-16 Ann Putnam: “And so I thought to send her to your Tituba” Rev Parris: “To Tituba! What ma Tituba---?” Ann: “Tituba knows how to speak to the dead‚ Mr. Parris.” 3. Page 38 Ann Putnam: “Mr. Parris’s slave has knowledge of conjurin’‚ sir.” . . . Ann

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    The Crucible Summary

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    The play “The Crucible” was published in 1953 by Arthur Miller and takes place in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692 during the Salem witch trials. The night before the actual action begins‚ Reverend Parris had discovered his daughter Betty‚ his niece Abigail Williams‚ his slave Tituba and some other girls in the woods‚ where they were performing an occult blood ritual and casting spells. Soon the rumor that something supernatural is going on in the village spreads and puts the village in turmoil. Abigail

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    Women In The Crucible

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    In the Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ men and women each hold powerful and important parts. Men hold mainly all of the power because they decide those who are sentenced to death. They are the ones who are in control of the village and lastly they all try to dominate over each other. Women accuse many of witchcraft and that is a big part. The men though decide out of those accusations who is sentenced to death by a hang. Overall‚ the men choose what to believe and what to do after that such as the

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    The Crucible Article

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    In Salem‚ Massachusetts today‚ three more people were hanged at dawn. John Proctor‚ Martha Corey‚ and Rebecca Nurse lost their lives after not confessing about their apparent engagement in witchcraft. Accused by the word of the girls who were once their house helpers‚ and who have now become officials of the court‚ they each stood before hundreds of people of the town who witnessed the three. Each one standing in front of a rope as they recited the prayer in unison‚ and were hanged one after the

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    The Crucible Summary

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    Stephanie Silva 5/27/13 History 101 Homework #2 Historical film review The Crucible Plot/Summary This Film is presented in the Puritan New England Town of Salem Massachusetts. In this film a group of girls go dancing in the woods with a black slave named Tituba. They see that they have been caught by the local minister and one of the girls falls into a coma. The girl is rushed to the village and puts everyone at worry. Parris tries to calm everyone down they gathered were the girl

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    SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - The Crucible Act One 1. "So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom‚ lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong and deceitful ideas." What is the irony in that statement? 2. Explain how the witch-hunt years were a time of "general revenge." 3. Identify Tituba‚ Abigail‚ and Betty. 4. Why does Mrs. Putnam believe there are witches in Salem? 5. Why is Thomas Putnam bitter? 6. Parris says‚ "Oh‚ Abigail

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