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    Arthur Miller to write The Crucible‚ depicting the unfortunate events. Throughout The Crucible‚ a young girl named Abigail Williams uses her cunningness and deceitfulness to get what she wants. Her jealousness and lack of moral and ethics gives her the ability to condemn innocent beings to death‚ without any questions. Abigail Williams is seen as “seventeen and strikingly beautiful” (138). However‚ she is selfish‚ and an excellent liar. When questioned about what had happened in the forest

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    John Proctor vs. Reverend Parris In “The Crucible‚” it is clearly illustrated that religion is the foundation in which the society of Salem is built upon. This directly implies that morality is highly valued in the society. In the beginning of the play‚ Arthur Miller draws a distinct line between John Proctor and Parris from their backgrounds and moral standards. Proctor is a married farmer who had an affair with a 17-year old house worker‚ Abigail. Parris is a minister of the church‚ and his reputation

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    Abigail Williams is a dominant figure in The Crucible. She is both malicious and manipulative. She is astute and knows how to use power to her own advantage. She is a marvellous antagonist with vengeful desires and she is ruthless for the mass hysteria and death which happens later in the play. Throughout the first act‚ we learn that Abigail is dominant and has authority over other characters within the play. “(Betty doesn’t move. She shakes her.) Now stop this! Betty! Sit up now!” The use of the

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    Culminating (Seminar)- The Crucible : Marginalization of Difference Thesis: In every community there are outsiders who do not fit in for many reasons‚ but the way the accepted community perceives and judges the outsider and there actions dictates how much they are respected. Tituba Point: In The Crucible‚ there is one character that can clearly be seen as an outsider in the Salem community. Tituba‚ who is a black woman from Barbados was brought to Salem‚ Massachusetts by Parris. Tituba is not respected

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    Larkey 1 " The Crucible A desire from deep within a person’s soul is often reflected by their life. People will usually act on whatever desire this is for their own personal gain. Be it greed for lust and love as represented by Abigail Williams‚ greed for power and authority as represented by Reverend Parris‚ or greed for land‚ wealth and power as represented by Thomas Putnam. Arthur Miller points out all of these in his play “The Crucible.” He shows how it leads to the corruption of a

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    WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CONFLİCTS BETWEEN VİRTUES AND UTİLİTARİANİSM ? Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its usefulness in maximizing utility. On the other hand‚ utility can be defined as pleasure‚ preference satisfaction‚ knowledge. Virtue is a pattern of thought an behavior based on high moral standards. Virtues can be placed into a broader context of values.Each individual has

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    1 English 2 September 29th‚ 2014 The Crucible: Quotes Essay The Crucible is a play written in 1953 by Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. This play is packed full of different themes and quotes I would love to use in this essay but I can’t use them all. The themes that I will be discussing in this essay are lying‚ good vs. evil‚ and The Supernatural

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    The Crucible was written by a written by Arthur Miller. This book is about the Salem Witch trials in the 1600’s. There was an emphasis on braking the Ten Commandments with in the characters of this book The Crucible. Three characters that broke the Ten Commandments that were emphasized in the book were Abigail William‚ Reverend Parris‚ and John Proctor. These were the people that broke some of the commandments that were main character in the story. John Proctor was a man who broke commandment.

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    When a village holds such a structured society there is always going to be someone to deny the rules. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ the misguided teen‚ Abigail Williams‚ uses that structure against the people of Salem. To do this‚ she places herself in a high position‚ controlling the adolescents around her. This leads to the teenage girls of Salem fearing Abigail because of how she challenges the rules of their society. At the beginning of the play the teenage girls of Salem are accused

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    Title Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible set in 1692‚ takes place in a small village in Salem‚ Massachusetts. At this time many puritans‚ who were of greater strictness in religious discipline‚ were to believe in witchcraft and considered it a very wrongful sin. This had led to much hysteria around the village. Miller’s work The Crucible presents a study of Manipulation‚ a tragic hero and hysteria in Salem during the 1600’s. In Arthur Miller ’s novel "The Crucible‚” the abuse of power and the use

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