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    The Crucible

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    The Crucible By Andrew White Adaptation of the Salem Witch Trials written by Arthur Miller The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a caliginous time in American history. The moral superiority that engulfs the town in a time of great despair and deep divide accurately sums up the atmosphere of that period of injustice that will forever stain the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. This is the subject matter for the play entitled “The Crucible”‚ written by Arthur Miller in 1953. According

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    In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ Puritan Salem‚ Massachusetts is uprooted when a panic surrounding accusations of witchcraft takes over the town. As more people begin to be accused and tried‚ the community begins to disintegrate as the local minister and a reverend from a nearby town lead a witch-hunt to purge the town of accused witches. Children become orphans‚ crops go un-harvested and cows roam the streets. The PlayMaker’s Repertory Company production of The Crucible seeks to illustrate how intolerance

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    Salem of Fear The Crucible is a play that explores ideas such as conflict‚ the importance of reputation and the relationship between fear and power. Arthur Miller uses this dramatic setting‚ symbolism and conflict between characters to show his audience and readers the similarities between the Salem witch hunts and the persecution of communists in his own time. This essay will show that the messages in The Crucible such as the harm that false accusations can cause and the importance of having

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    Dramatic Tragedy

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    When the words "dramatic tragedy" are spoken or read it leads one’s mine to think of classic works‚ such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex. We tend not to associate dramatic tragedy with modern day film and theater. We think of dramatic tragedy as it was originally produced in the days of Ancient Greece‚ when the stage was outdoors‚ only a few actors took part‚ and the tragedies that where enacted where those of the death of the main character. Tragedy can be defined as a plot in

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    Williams creates dramatic tension in ’A Streetcar Named Desire’ through the interactions between the important characters in the play‚ such as the conflict between Blanche and Stanley‚ and their contrasting styles of communication. The first instance of this occurs in the second scene. Blanche is bathing‚ whilst Stanley questions Stella about the loss of Belle Reve‚ referring to the so-called "Napoleonic code". As an audience‚ we sense the tension being created when he says "And I don’t like to be

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    Surface Tension

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    Surface Tension My problem was to find out how to test or measure surface tension. I think the reason of some of the force in surface tension is cohesion and gravity. Surface Tension is the condition existing at the free surface of a liquid‚ resembling the properties of an elastic skin under tension. The tension is the result of intermolecular forces exerting an unbalanced inward pull on the individual surface molecules; this is reflected in the considerable curvature at those edges where the

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    Dramatic analysis

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    Houston Saxon Dr. Matheny Oral Interpretation Dramatic Analysis 1. Who is speaking? A.) Peregrine‚ a traveler and deceiver. His goal is to deceive Sir Politic Would-be‚ and take from him whatever he can‚ including‚ possibly‚ his wife. His obstacle is the Sir Politic Would-be‚ and later in the play several more men. His tactics are to insinuate himself with Sir Politic as a friend‚ this includes‚ inventing stories and pretending to be ignorant of things which he actually knows. His expectation

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    The Crucible

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    CRUCIBLE INTRODUCTIONARY NOTES The crucible by Arthur Miller‚ is a play that deals with conflicts involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692. The characters in Miller’s theocratic society are not only in conflict with their environment‚ but with each other and their religious authority. John Proctor sacrifices his life as he battles his individual conscience‚ guilt and the authority of the church. In his play‚ Miller shows that when an individual questions the dominant values of a society

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    Dramatic Monologue

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    “Toadstools‚ and butterscotch!? What a horrid combination! Why on earth would anyone wish to consume that together?” I flung down the folded (crumpled) letter. The first letter I received from my dearest friend Leonora in months‚ and she talked about how she and her mentor made a new potion with toadstool and butterscotch. Disgusting. “What are ye huffin’ about now‚ child?” My short‚ round mentor shuffled past me with her arms full of some large birds that twitched unnaturally. She was the kind

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    Racial Tension

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    individual and every country in world are facing with racial tension. Racial tension can be described as‚ groups of people or more than one race who live around the same area and they are facing a serious conflict with each other. The effect of racial tension can be a everybody’s worst nightmare‚ but the most important is to study the causes of racial tension. The reason to study the causes of racial tension is to understand why and how racial tension happens‚ rather than pointing finger with eye closed

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