Character Analysis: The Lost Critennse

The witch trials in this play were based on actual events that happened in Salem in 1692. Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials. His reasoning for writing it was because everyone was hysteric about the Soviet Union and communism trying to make its way over to the United States. It was like a modern day witch hunt. In the play, Abigail Williams and a group of girls get caught in the woods. They were dancing and doing other things that puritan’s looked down upon. The girls were caught by Reverend Parris, and soon after his daughter became ‘ill’. The girls then started saying that witches came to them and told them to do bad things. They sent innocent people to hang. After studying Arthur Miller’s

Pride can become something that will lead a man to shame and destruction. In The Crucible this happened to one of the main characters, John Proctor, which also is the one of the Tragic Hero in the book. The Crucible is about when some town people in Salem was accused of being witches after four girls were found dancing in the woods. After 200 people were accused of being witches in 1963, 20 people were either hung or crushed by many stones. In the Crucible John Proctor, the tragic hero had a weakness as pride eventually forcing him to face a serious decision and suffering more than he should.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during colonial America. Throughout the story a group of girls makes accusations a mass of people of practicing witchcraft, one of the worst crimes to commit during that period, and people are being sentenced to hang for denying witchery. In the Crucible there are many lessons that Arthur Miller wants to teach you. To me a lot of the lessons that were taught in this story are important but I feel like one of them is the most important. Arthur Miller demonstrates that one of the lessons implied in the story is people’s character and how it affects those people and others. Examples of character are Giles Corey, John Proctor, Abigail Williams.

The Crucible is set in the seventeenth- century Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trial. It starts of with Reverend Parris, a man very concerned about his reputation, accusing his orphaned niece Abigail Williams of taking part in witchcraft after his daughter is unconscious after dancing in the woods. A technique used by Parris is characterization, which utilizes the thoughts, actions and dialogues in the construction of characters. Arthur Miller uses characterization to build the character of Reverend Samuel Parris as arrogant , selfish, and deceptive.

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was based on the Salem, witch trials when the people of the town where accusing each other of witchcraft and those held for questioning would stand trial had a choice to be valor. In Miller’s portrayal of the ghastly, sickening inquiry of witchcraft many people in the 1690’s were people of the township were maintaining guard for their beliefs; while others of the community of Salem were cowards who took the easy out of the accusations they were on trial. The townspeople of Salem are going through a day people are courageous even in a way others could not be or were never suppose to be. Those characters display their courage in the town at the time of need, John Proctor is a selfless man when only stating

In the Crucible Play written by Arthur Miller women are portrayed in many different ways, but there are mainly 3 which are good, moral, and upright people. Other characteristics can be the complete opposite with these different type of women. The author Miller did not intend on portraying himself as a feminist, but he also doesn’t condemn all women to make them appear as “spotless” either. In the play he tries to show a balance of different people so that the story can be more believable, because the more personalities in different characters, the more realistic a story can portray. One of the characters that plays as a catalyst throughout the whole play is Abigail, she represents clearly as an antagonist, liar, thief, and is known for being a very manipulative person.

In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller which was written in 1692 about the severe Salem witch trials. The play incorporates a great deal of generally good people and an abundance of evil actions. Miller tells a story of those who experienced the trials first hand and played important roles in the time period. Many of the main characters in the story play both sides of good and evil which makes this a morality play. Throughout the play, we never truly understand if the evil actually comes from the devil or from the minds of the individual.

She greets them like old friends and introduces Kay to them. Throughout the whole story, Gerda showed cultural values of a true hero. During the departure phase, she showed bravery, loyalty, and selflessness. In the initiation phase, she exhibited kindness and relentlessness. Finally, in the return phase Gerda revealed that she is caring and has a softer side to herself. Once she found Kay, she wept because she had finally found her best friend. Kay was still under the influence of the mirror and did not recognize her. This made Gerda cry harder, resulting in Kay's frozen heart to melt and the splinter in his eye to fall out. From beginning to end, Gerda demonstrated a true heroic personality, which helped her complete her journey.

Race and racism are two of the most discussed topics in the book “A Hope in the Unseen”. When Cedric Jennings went to the MIT program during the summer, he was seen as the only “ghetto” student among the other minority students going through the same experience has him. This was mainly because of his ethnicity and his personal background. While he was at Brown University, he was having trouble with his roommate, Rob, because they “didn’t have anything in common,”. One of Cedric’s friends, Chiniqua, tries to encourage him to just hang out with the other black kids but he decides to broaden his horizons by interacting with other ethnicity groups.

“If you take care of your character. Your reputation will take care of itself”(Dwight Lyman Moody). In the book The Crucible, the reader gets to know several characters. As you continue through they find out information on more of the characters but three specific ones stand out because of their actions when trying to save their reputations. John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Judge Danforth are all involved with trying to fix issues but end up trying to save their reputation because Parris catches the girls dancing in the woods.These three characters John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Judge Danforth try to save their reputation but end up losing it.

In the bildungsroman, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael recalls a childhood parable Pa Sesay told when listening to a mother tell her kid a story in Conakry’s Sierra Leonean embassy. The tale tells about a hunter about to shoot a monkey but the ape articulates that if he shoots, his father will die, and if he does not shoot, his father will die. Ishmael reflects upon the parable’s unanswerable question and finally reaches a solution at age seven. Clearly, Ishmael possesses the critical thinking skills to develop a proper solution to this dilemma that truly reflects his morals. The vanquishing of the monkey compares to the solution to Sierra Leone’s internal issues such as ending war and child soldiers, illustrating a metaphor.

The television series Lost portrays constant struggles for power as the survivors of a plane crash must now survive upon an Island with no hope of rescue. The survivors must learn to live and work together. The work of Thomas Hobbes and Georg Hegel both help to explain the effects of social power and why it is held by some and not others. Hobbes (1651) helps to explain the social contract that was created to keep the peace among the survivors while Hegel (1977) explains the lord and bondsman relationship between the two leading characters. Individually Hobbes and Hegel describe the power relations of the Lost characters well but when used in combination they illuminate the relationships more efficiently. This allows for the differences and similarities between the two theorists to become clear, showing that one alone cannot explain all aspects of a situation.

People that get stranded on a island always have to have a plan for survival. Timothy’s plan for survival on the island is right because he builds a shelter, hunts for food, and creates a fire. All these things help both Timothy and Phillip survive on the island The Cay. First, The plan for survival is right because he builds a shelter. I know this because he builds a shelter for himself and Phillip.

In the book of “The Cay”, there are main characters named Timothy and Phillip. Phillip finally got stuck on the cay with Timothy, a black, old man after the ship they rode on got wrecked by German ships because of war happening around Curacao, the island where Phillip lived in. Phillip was now separated with his parents and he got blind. He has to survive on a small island with no other humans except for Timothy. Not only that, Phillip's mother told him about black people as extremely different people and that black people live their lives diversely and unlike white people. Phillip and Timothy have to work constantly to get food, shelter, and to do everything they need to do in order to survive. I think the story