industries‚ laundries or various other jobs to support themselves.”. Women were treated more like an object or a servant rather than a person or spouse. One of the main characters in the play Trifles named Hale states a short simple statement that when looked into‚ states a strong opinion. Hale states to another male in the play‚ “Well‚ women are used to worrying over trifles.”. This statement shows how the men in this day thought women lacked common sense or intelligence. When trying to investigate
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place at his farm house. His wife‚ Mrs. Wright‚ is found at the crime scene and put in jail. She asks three of her friends‚ who are wives of the detectives investigating‚ to collect her apron and shawl. While the men scamper about trying to solve the crime of who did it‚ the women rifle through Mrs. Wrights belonging in search of her request. Noticing simple things out of place in the home or the trifles (as the men call it)‚ they inadvertently find clues that reveal Mrs. Wright to be the murderer. It
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determines Mrs. Wright’s fate. Mrs. Hale’s influence to the story is almost accidental because she unintentionally stumbles upon evidence that links Minnie to the murder. She never had the intent to find evidence against Minnie‚ she was just there to pack up a few things for her and be done with it. Her curiosity and wonder arose when she found certain things in the Wright’s home that seems peculiar and out of place for the Minnie Foster she had known twenty years prior to her marriage to Mr. Wright
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Reverend Hale The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. Reverend Hale who is a minister and an expert of the demonic arts and witchcraft is sent from East Hanover to Salem where there is a spreading fear of witchcraft. When Hale arrives in Salem he finds the entire town in total chaos. At the beginning Hale is adamant in believing that they’re where witches and that nothing but good could come of his being
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Is it common to give life through death? Eric Lund did just that. He encouraged his mother and many others to embrace and enjoy life by showing‚ humor‚ determination and happiness. The first attribute of Eric that I picked that I think was the most important and flagrant attribute‚ is his humor. One of the examples of his humor is when he and a friend tried to escape the hospital. The second example of Eric’s humor is his creation of Ralph the camel. The reason why I think that Ralph the camel
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takes place in Salem during 1692. Reverend John Hale arrives from another city n MA to solve the problem about witches in Salem. Reverend John Hale is very intellectual and a naive witch-hunter. Hale is to blame for the killings in Salem because he made many false accusations‚ had power but did not want to ruin his reputation‚ and he did not speak up. Hale made many accusations and that lead to people dying just for no reason. Its true Hale did make accusations but so did everyone else‚ Abigail
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Brianna M. Marshall 26 April 2012 English III 2a Throughout the Crucible there is evidence that the character Reverend John Hale undergoes evaluation within his own beliefs and those that others tell him. In Acts I and II he strongly believes everything that the court‚ the girls and Reverend Parris tells him. But as the play continues his belief in what those in the village says starts to deteriorate‚ and his own beliefs start to arise. Throughout Acts I and II the reader sees Reverend
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Nathan Hale In the small town of Coventry‚ Connecticut on June 6‚ 1755‚ Nathan Hale was born‚ to devout Puritans‚ Deacon Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong Hale. Hale was the sixth of twelve children. The Hale’s had 9 boys and 3 girls. Hale’s parents were concerned that he wouldn’t survive his first year‚ like the two children before Hale (Lough 8). Even though he was a sickly small child‚ with weak lungs he did not let that stop him from loving the outdoors (Lough). As Hale got older‚ he became
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relationship to the family? Tituba is the Parris’s slave from Barbados. What is wrong with Betty? Betty is unconscious after being caught by her father dancing in the woods with other girls from Salem. Why does Parris suggest calling in Reverend Hale? Rev. Parris thinks the Devil has entered Salem and turned the girls into witches. Who are Ann and Thomas Putnam? What do they suggest is Betty’s problem? What is their motivation for suggesting this? The couple who lost all but one child
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hundreds of people were thrown in jail or hung? Well that is what Reverend John Hale has to ask himself as he has the heaviest burden to carry. In Arthur Miller’s‚The Crucible‚ John Hale is man so sure of himself at first becomes a very broken man while dealing with the accusations in Salem. When John Hale first arrives in Salem he is very over confident and conceited about his knowledge in witchcraft. Reverend Hale is described as a "tight-skinned‚ eager-eyed intellectual."(1146) This shows
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