Goldie Bignell The successful and what could have been successful societies in both Lord of the Flies and The Crucible eventually decayed and fell apart. There were struggles with good and evil in Salem and on the island that were the result of three main elements. Fear‚ misuse of power and fanatical religious beliefs were the cause of the two societies failure. In Salem‚ anything unusual or different from the norm was seen as alien and sinful. When Parris saw the girls dancing in the woods
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Goody Proctor keeps. I have found it‚ sir. And in the belly of the poppet a needle’s stuck. I tell you true‚ I never warranted to see such proof of Hell!” (p71.i.II). Eim AbWilliams and had been instructed to search the house for a poppet. Mary Warren tells them how the poppet got into the hgail “The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world!”(p72.i.II). Cheever took this as evidence of her guilt and insisted on her arrest. Proctor snatched the warrant out of Cheever’s hand and ripped
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Crucible can be defined as a severe test or a searching trial. The witch trials were a grueling and unnecessary process. The trials were finally kicked off when Reverend Parris found Abby‚ Betty‚ Ruth‚ Mary Warren‚ Mercy Lewis‚ and Tituba dancing in the woods and trying to conjure spirits. Betty fell ill the next day‚ almost all of Salem thought that the devil was in their small‚ conservative‚ intolerant town. To avoid being prosecuted as witches‚ the girls‚ with Abigail as their leader‚ would
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The Crucible The Crucible is a book that could lead the mind into many different ways. More of a play or act‚ The Crucible has many different themes and subject matters from different opinions. Themes are the primary and original widespread ideas spread in literature. The Crucible‚ takes place in the Puritan Society where people are condemned of witchery‚ guilty or innocent were taken upon very harshly. The Crucible has many different themes‚ as mentioned before. One of the themes is narrow-mindedness
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with little evidence‚ and it was in itself a witch hunt like those described in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was inspired directly by McCarthyism when he was writing The Crucible. The many claims of witchcraft made by characters in The Crucible--lacking sufficient evidence--share great similarities with the “witch hunts” of the McCarthy Era. The first great example of McCarthyism in The Crucible appears in Act One when Reverend Parris first becomes a major character in the tragedy
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The story follows the people of Salem‚ Massachusetts as their lives turn to chaos as a result of the Salem Witch Trials. No matter how farfetched the accusations were‚ the copious amount of lies told within the small town made it nearly impossible for anyone to know what really happened. These gaps in knowledge made people’s minds open to any kind of explanation. The dishonesty‚ brainwashing and manipulation exhibited by Abigail Williams‚ Mary Warren and the court is ultimately
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Written by Arthur Miller‚ the Crucible is a reading filled with many significant and important quotes. One excerpt expresses the hidden dishonesty and deceit within the Puritan society. It says‚ “There are wheels within wheels in this village‚ and fires within fires” (28). At this part in the play‚ Mrs. Anne Putnam is having a dispute with Rebecca Nurse over the reasoning for her many miscarriages. Unlike Mrs. Putnam‚ Rebecca has been granted with plenty of children making her quite envious over
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Who Has the Power? Sometimes‚ the person who should be the one wielding the power has none at all. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ he recounts the events of the Salem Witch Trials. As he tells the events that occurred‚ he clearly paints out who held the power and who should have been in power during the trials. In Miller’s play‚ the person who holds the most power in Salem during the Witch Trials is Abigail Williams. Despite being a child and an orphan‚ for her parents had died and she
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the same ruthless‚ power-hungry‚ and intelligent attributes that were demonstrated in The Crucible. In the midst of McCarthyism‚ Abigail would continue to be as ruthless and cunning as she was when she confronted the Witch Trials. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft so she can marry John Proctor. She was never afraid to lie to save herself and burden others with accusations. Abigail claims Mary Warren is a bird threatening her safety so that she can fool the others in believing that she is
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With witchcraft on the rise‚ many citizens of Salem in 1692 were fearful‚ greedy and jealous. Nearly every character in this story gives into one of the factors. In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ fear‚ greed‚ and jealousy contribute to the witchcraft hysteria and mass executions in Salem. One of the main contributors to the mass hysteria would be fear. As if the witchcraft hysteria wasn’t enough‚ in 1692 many Salem villagers feared famine due to the upcoming war. The people of Salem contributed
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