In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ many people are accused and convicted of witchcraft. It starts the rumor of witchcraft in the village‚ but it evolves into a great witch hunt with many people getting arrested. In the play people often accuse their neighbors or enemies. The accused are often unable to defend themselves of the accusation‚ so they either get pregnant‚ confess‚ or accuse others in order to live. These are just some of the ways many people were accused of witchcraft‚ but others were
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Blame for Romeo and Juliet’s Death In my opinion‚ the blame goes to the characters that supported and didn’t support Romeo and Juliet. Especially‚ Lord Capulet‚ Lady Capulet‚ Friar Lawrence‚ Nurse and fate. Juliet’s parents have an important role for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. As the mother of Juliet‚ Lady Capulet is meant to comfort Juliet. Instead of doing that‚ she abandons Juliet in the middle of suffering. Lord Capulet acted harsh when Juliet expressed her opinion over Paris. Both of
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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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When things are not going according to plan there are often blames and guilty consciences for the problems going on. Take family for instance‚ if a family has uneducated and bad-mannered kids‚ there are the parents to blame. And if the parents lose their minds because of the bad children that they spawned to earth‚ the kids are to blame. But who takes the most responsible for the suffering in the family? In the book Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’neill‚ a disastrous family is portrayed
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Iago is not to blame for the deaths of Othello‚ Desdemona‚ Roderigo‚ and Emilia because there is no hard evidence that pins him to the crimes. Iago himself did not kill anyone himself so his hands are clean and it would be unjustly to put the blame on him. Not only did Iago not kill anybody but he did not forcly make somebody kill someone else‚ all Iago did was give his opinion say what he thought. Iago himself even said to his wife‚”I told him what I thought‚ and told no more. That what he found
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Who to blame? Fantine is like a little girl who is buying a car‚ where the car company charges high interest‚ and she ends up paying an enormous sum. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ both society and Fantine are to blame for her decline‚ though society is much more at at fault than she. Firstly‚ Fantine is partially to blame since she is inexperienced and naive. Likewise‚ society is at fault because the population dehumanizes people living in poverty. Moreover‚ society is responsible because
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Throughout the wars in history they never end on an equal consensus on who “won” or who was to blame. One of the most questioned wars was the Revolutionary War between the British and the colonist. It is a constant debate on who is to blame for the two groups ending up in an armed conflict. The British has shown more evidence to be blamed for this conflict with taxation without representation/unfair taxing by the Townshend Act and Stamp act‚ and manipulating the colonist within the Tea Act. A contributing
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themselves just for love. This was all of their own faults which is why many people knew this was going to happen in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This is why I think Romeo and Juliet were to blame for this tragedy that happened to them. My first reason of why I think Romeo and Juliet were to blame for their own deaths is due to the fact of Romeo accepting fate. The article “Critical Essay on Romeo & Juliet” says‚ “ It can be said that part of Romeo’s character flaw is that he believes in the
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Shakespeare is whether or not Ophelia was killed or committed suicide and who was to blame for her actions. Many can argue that King Claudius was the one who caused it‚ but in reality he did not lead anything towards Ophelia. King Claudius only wanted the crown‚ the queen‚ and to kill Hamlet. The people to blame for Ophelia’s death are Hamlet‚ Laertes‚ and Polonius; the three men in her life who drive her to become weak. Hamlet is to blame because he targeted Ophelia as to make him appear insane‚ Laertes
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Who is to Blame of Romeo and Juliet’s Death Shakespeare once wrote in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet “The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!/Here’s to my love! [drinks] O true apothecary!/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (V.III. 118-120). Directly after saying this‚ Romeo takes a poison and dies in hopes that he will spend the rest of eternity with the one he loves--Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide because Romeo thinks Juliet had died so he takes his life for her‚ then
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