The Crucible By Andrew White Adaptation of the Salem Witch Trials written by Arthur Miller The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a caliginous time in American history. The moral superiority that engulfs the town in a time of great despair and deep divide accurately sums up the atmosphere of that period of injustice that will forever stain the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. This is the subject matter for the play entitled “The Crucible”‚ written by Arthur Miller in 1953. According
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Journal Topics for The Crucible As you read the play over the next few days‚ choose any 3 of the following topics and respond to them in a google document or on paper. Each response must be at least 250 words. You must include references to the text and provide support for all of your claims. Please use your best writing- no grammatical/spelling/capitalization errors- divide ideas using paragraphs etc. Each journal entry is 20 pts. You may do one more extra credit. Again‚ we are working on
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McKenna Elliott Mr. Jahnke English 10 3A 10 November 2013 Crucible paper Weakness‚ Jealousy and Manipulation In the 1950’s people were imprisoned for being accused as communists. Many lost their jobs and family. Many were afraid to stand up for themselves‚ therefore people just accused them even if they were innocent. How would innocent people feel if they were used as everyone’s scapegoat? Imagine if they had to accuse other people of witchcraft just to save there job‚ and social
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Who is to blame for the death of King Duncan in the play Macbeth? In this essay I am going to look at who is to blame for the murder of King Duncan. James I was superstitious and he was paranoid about the supernatural and he was afraid he would be killed. The reason why James I was scared was because he’s family got killed by witches. Kings were representations of god. In the olden days people were scared of supernatural beings such as witches. Witches use rhyming couplets such
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Who Was Most to Blame For the Death of Eva Smith? An Inspector Calls is a three-act drama‚ which takes place on a single night in 1912‚ and focuses on the Birling family‚ who live in a wealthy but not particulary homely house in Brumley. The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family. The idea of the play‚ and particularly the role of the inspector‚ is to try to bring the Birling family to understand that they have a moral responsibility
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Argumentative Essay 18 March 2012 Rising Gas Prices: Who is to blame? Each time a person residing in the United States pulls up to a gas station to fill their tank it costs more money. This is particularly true of the past four years. Many focus the blame on the American Government but there are a multitude of factors causing gasoline prices to be so astronomically high. Middle eastern war‚ environmental precautions and government all seem to have a hand in the price we pay at the pump. While
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In the play‚ The Crucible‚ the symbolism of the characters play a very important role that go along with the time era of McCarthyism. Arthur Miller’s purpose of the characters in The Crucible was to show what people were like during the 1940s and 1950s. Symbolism is the use of an object‚ person‚ or event to represent something. In this case‚ Miller uses symbolism to signify the characters as people during the time of McCarthyism. In works like these‚ symbolism makes the story seem like every character
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The Crucible Essay ‘The Crucible’ written by Arthur Miller is a play which contains a relationship between a male and female character that changes throughout the course of the play. This relationship would be the relationship of John and Elizabeth Procter. This relationship changes from being hostile and awkward at the start and changes to a loving and caring one by the end of the play. This illuminates the central idea in the play of forgiveness. The Crucible is set in Salem‚ Massachusetts during
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Inside a windowless room illuminated by a single candle‚ the flame is given the responsibility of filling the area with light; that same brightness will inevitably produce its own shadows. In the play‚ based off of true events‚“The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller recalls a series of unlawful behaviors within a paranoid society that sparked innocent people’s deaths. One of the only rationalist in this play is eventualled executed after his attempts to return justice to Salem. John Proctor resembles
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debate over this tale of love‚ lust and tragedy. Well‚ it’s happened again. People are at loggerheads over who is to blame. The Capulets? The Montagues? Or one of those small characters in-between? On internet forums and online discussion sites there’s numerous Baz Lurhmann fans clamouring to add their opinion. Admittedly‚ they’re quite well done. Of course‚ you have the odd drongo who couldn’t be bothered to give the matter any thought: Shakespeare’s fault‚ he wrote the play in the first place
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