Mass hysteria can exist when a number of people behave in an uncontrollable‚ unmanageable way because of fear and/or anger. Arthur Miller easily shows this in the play The Crucible which takes place in the late 1600’s in Salem‚ Massachusetts when more than one-hundred people were getting accused of being witches. United State Senator Joseph McCarthy had done something similar to this when he had accused many people of being “Reds” or communists during the Red Scare going throughout the United States
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regards than Othello. Seemingly she holds it dearly as it was the first token of love given to her by Othello. Nevertheless‚ in the scene when she offers it to him for his headache she drops it and does not notice its disappearance for a while. It is not until act three scene four “where should I lose the handkerchief‚ Emilia?” that she becomes away aware of her negligence with it (3.4.21). Historically this token of love was a common gesture during Elizabethan England that was traded amongst couples
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Frome by Edith Wharton is based on a complicated love triangle between the main characters. Ethan and his wife Zenobia also referred to as Zeena‚ is the caretaker of his mother who he only got married to because he did not want to be alone for the rest of his life after his mother passes. Their marriage begins to go downhill when Zeena became terribly ill. Ethan then meets Zeena’s cousin‚ Mattie who come to take care of her as Ethan and her fall in love behind Zeena’s back. Zeena soon find out but tries
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the information he knows about the gang members. Father Boyle has worked hard to gain the gang members’ trust and he shouldn’t jeopardize it. We know that the gang members gave the father their trust because in Elizabeth Venant’s " A Father’s Love " it states‚ "... The gang members honored him with a handle‚ ‘G-Dog’..."revealing that they now trusted and treated him like one of them and allowed him to know information that an everyday person wouldn’t know. Also‚ the text states‚ “... Listening
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desires desperate love and acceptance. These demands trigger him to act cynically towards victor‚ the cottagers and his covet for love. From murder to the confusion of love the beast evidently displays his necessity. He needs the attention of others to restrain him of his wrongful acts. The monsters yearn for love leads him to horrific acts of evil. Victor‚ the creator soon agrees to produce a beast of the opposite gender. Mary Shelley distinctly elaborates the monsters crave for love by‚ "I demand
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fatal flaws: love‚ lust and greed. Although the main theme of The Great Gatsby is love the true theme is lust and desire‚ which is the source of the books dark nature. The truly natures of characters are never reveled‚ only their words and emotions but never their personalities. And by extension‚ the characters never meet each other true natures‚ which is source of the characters tainted ties to each other‚ why only desire‚ lust and greed join them together rather than love. Because love needs a stong
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Twelfth Night: Theme of Love In the play "Twelfth Night‚" Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotion of love with precise detail. According to "Webster’s New World Dictionary‚" love is defined as "a strong affection or liking for someone." Throughout the play Shakespeare examines three different types of love: true love‚ self love and friendship. "Twelfth Night" consists of many love triangles‚ however many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their
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Texas Triangle Photobook Interpretation After going through a virtual tour of Texas through Alec Soth’s Texas Triangle and experiencing scenes that I would not have been able to imagine without Alec Soth‚ I came across one simple but meaningful photography called “Bull Riders.” This image has very little movement in the picture but sets the mood perfectly by describing characteristic of rural Texas and importance of brotherhood. The picture is of two friends‚ Cory and Joseph from San Antonio
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A theme is a central idea or insight that a writer tries to convey in a literary work. The Crucible shows multiple topics that each hold a theme throughout Act IV. For example‚ a main topic is guilt. The theme is personal guilt leads people to make extreme choices. At the end of the play‚ Proctor is hung because he chooses to hide what he knows about Abigail since he holds so much guilt inside himself for committing the sin of adultery. Proctor was a good man but chose to die so he lost the guilt
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In my opinion the theme of The Crucible is to not jump to conclusions. There are many instances in the play where people jump to conclusions and very bad things happen in return. Another theme that the author is trying to portray is that reputation doesn’t matter. For example‚ in the play many people would not have gotten convicted‚ had Rev. Parris not cared so much about his reputation he would have come clean about the girls and the trials would probably have stopped.An example of Rev. Parris only
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