It is appalling how people die for no cause. This happens in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller in which The Salem witch trials were depicted. In Salem‚ 1692‚ many people with good reputations are sentenced to death because of supernatural "evidence." The only way to escape death was to admit that they were witches. The intolerance‚ fear‚ and reputation of the society affect the choices characters made. This shows how society can be blamed for the decisions people make. Salem society is full
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John Proctor Versus Society John Proctor attempts to defeat society alone. In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor struggling to gain power shows that one person cannot change society. John Proctor struggles to get people to believe that the kids are lying. John struggles with trying to keep his good name too. Also when Elizabeth got sent to jail and sentenced to be hanged‚ John had to fight to get Elizabeth out before death occurred. First‚ John Proctor struggles to gain power to change
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Adultery was viewed a lot differently back in the 1600’s than it is nowadays. In today’s world‚ adultery is a very commonplace thing‚ with it being broadcasted on newspapers‚ TV‚ books‚ movies‚ and even in video games. In some cases‚ it it even encouraged. This is very contradictory to how adultery was treated back in the Scarlet Letter’s timeline. Unlike today‚ adultery was a horrendous crime worthy of death. In today’s world‚ adultery is a common event in households across the United States and
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How does John Proctor’s great dilemma change during this play? Proctor and his Dilemma is very interesting because all his Dilemmas are pretty much a sequel to the first. His Dilemmas are a more advanced version of a lot of peoples’ dilemmas in Salem‚ which go from adultery to religion and then witchcraft. Proctor is respected in the town as a very honest man but his problems with adultery‚ religion and witchcraft really change him throughout the story. Proctor is well respected in Salem but one
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Dear John‚ I just want to start out by telling you how much I have missed having you in my life. I have found it very difficult to come and talk to you in person‚ so I wrote this letter in response to yours. As I first read your letter I was both shocked and saddened by your words saying that everything was over between us. But then I realized that you wouldnt risk telling the truth in a letter as it could end up in the wrong hands. I believe that your letter was just a message that you finally
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The struggle of Reverend John Hale is that he was transformed emotionally throughout the times of lies and treachery as he goes from unbiased accuser‚ to uncertain power‚ to defender of the accuser. This connects to Arthur Miller’s reason for writing this play because in 1952 the same thing was going on but in this case it was McCarthyism which is a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54
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accuse their neighbors for the things they desired. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller‚ where mass hysteria and greed dictate the minds of the Salem Puritans. These two factors encourage people to falsely accuse their neighbor‚ leading to the death of the innocent just for personal gain. Through John having his affair‚ Abigail ultimately falling in love‚ and Mary Warren’s being extremely vulnerable‚ The Crucible proves that John Proctor is responsible for his own death and the others in Salem
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4 Types of Adultery This post was first published on ROOTSS on Wednesday‚ 7th February 2007 When I was a young boy growing up in church‚ I remember one particular Sunday when there was no Sunday School. My sisters and I accompanied our parents to Sunday Service and Rev Sam Goh was preaching. Back then‚ our church was pretty small and cosy‚ and could sit about 300 persons. Our dear Pastor asked the congregation whether any of us could remember the Ten Commandments.I remember one member mentioning
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Be careful--the result of being an individual in a uniform society could possibly lead to death. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller relates the Salem witchcraft trials to the modern acts of McCarthyism being practiced. He uses specific events and characters in the play to describe what occurs in both situations. One of the characters Miller uses to describe his ideas is John Proctor. Miller uses Proctor’s moral ambiguity to express his views of how individualism is nearly impossible in such corrupt‚
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of Act Two‚ we can see how Elizabeth and John Proctor’s relationship is functioning after the affair. While John has not been with Abigail again‚ despite being so tempted to do so‚ Elizabeth is still very skeptical regarding his loyalty for her. There is obvious tension between them by how one worded their conversations are. Elizabeth barely says more than one sentence to her husband in most of the dialogue‚ showing the distance between them. Mrs. Proctor clearly hasn’t fully gotten over the affair
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