doing nothing wrong. Furthermore‚ people don’t need to be punished unless there is a hundred percent proof that they did it. People are being imprisoned‚ killed‚ and even tortured for being innocent. People’s lives are just going to waste. In the crucible by Arthur Miller people 400 years ago are being accused of being witches. In reality‚ they are not and innocent people are getting the punishment. Moreover‚ a person of the name George Allen was accused of murdering and raping a woman named Mary
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and there is no longer peace. When something goes wrong people tend to put the blame on anyone or anything besides themselves. In the crucible the blame is put on innocent women and this created mass hysteria and paranoia in the village. Kristallnacht was a night of violence that created mass hysteria and fear among the innocent Jews‚ just as Abigail did in The Crucible. In Germany the economy was not going well and they needed somebody to blame. The chose group to get the blame were the Jews. Somehow
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Proctor- he is basically the reason the trials started at all. he cheated on his wife and his lovers jealousy sparked the whole ideal. even though he tried to prove his wife’s innocence‚ it backfired on him. while he wasn’t part of the trials for the most part‚ he in my opinion‚ is one of the big reasons it continued and became as bad as it did.Abigail Williams- its her lies and jealousy that is the cause of the trials. she was afraid to get in trouble for dancing naked in the woods an witch craft that
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In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller‚ the Salem townspeople goes into a frenzy‚ because Abigail and some of the girls enter the forest and dance. When Parris catches the girls they are accused of witchcraft. Abigail doesn’t want to get in trouble so she creates a plan that starts the havoc. This chaos in the town is from Abigail’s actions. When Abigail and the girls are questioned regarding witchcraft‚ Abigail lies to everyone‚ accusing Tituba when she says‚ “She sends her spirit on me in church;
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Shah Akbur Ms. Jones AP Language 1 December 2009 The Crucible True Purpose One of the factors that can be accredited to starting the hysteria over witchery in the Crucible is the weakness of several of the characters in the story. The fear and lack of mental stability of these characters are a pivotal reason as to why these trials took place. It was Parris’s fear of his reputation being tarnished by his daughter’ssickness that led him to bring John Hale which eventually spirals down
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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Scout Moving On At the beginning of the novel‚ Scout is an innocent five-year-old child who has no experience with reality of the outside world. As the novel goes on‚ Scout is learning about the harsh world that is around her by all of the events that are happening that has to do with racial prejudice. People throughout the book‚ even her family‚ approach her and make crude and slanderous remarks regarding her father representing a colored man. The grounds on which
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Some of the characters in The Crucible stay the same but a few of them change. To me the characters who changed are Mary Warren‚ John Proctor‚ Elizabeth‚ and Rebecca Nurse. They change from the beginning towards the end of the play‚ starting out to be innocent but then each of those characters start to change who they are. Mary Warren in the beginning is a sweet girl who would never lie to anybody‚ but towards the end she changed a lot by making a doll with a needle inside of it. Also‚ when she
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Throughout The Crucible there are good characters‚ bad characters and the characters who do not take action when action is required. Of these characters‚ close to all of them embodies one of the seven deadly sins. Of each of the seven‚ there is always one character that is the worst sinner of that particular vice. There are seven deadly sins but out of the seven there are two in particular that drives this play the most. In control of these sins is Abigail Williams‚ a young vengeful girl who used to work
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‘The Crucible’ Character Analysis- Abigail Williams In the play ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller‚ the author uses characters from the 17th century witch-hunts to show the corruption behind McCarthyism. The play was published in 1953‚ a time when McCarthyism was actively affecting and contributing to society. The book is filled with false accusations during 1692‚ in order to relate to the time period it was released. In the play‚ the character Abigail Williams is in love with John Proctor‚ a married
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The Crucible: Moral Integrity & Human Dignity Our names are labels‚ plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith “The Crucible” a 1952 play written by Arthur Miller is an allegory of McCarthyism. The play itself is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials which occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. In Miller’s masterpiece we meet a wide array of characters‚ village people‚ ordained ministers‚ judges‚ and farmers. We have the major characters‚ John
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