Reflection On The Crucible

Thesis Statement: Arthur Miller conveys of the theme of jealousy by how it can ruin lives by abigail was jealous of elizabeth proctor Also John Putnam is moved by jealousy by he is jealous of others people's property.

The play The Crucible, was written by Arthur Miller in 1953. It is a story he wrote after his own experience being accused of communism. This affected a lot of well-known people in the United States during this time, and was considered a witch hunt similar to the Salem witch hunts. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible about a man, John Proctor, who has an affair with Abigail Williams. She catches feelings for him and tries to cast a spell on John Proctor’s wife to kill her; this gets out of hand when Abigail’s uncle catches her and some other girls dancing during the spell in the woods. Suddenly, the whole town is living in fear of who is practicing witchcraft, who could be a witch, and innocent people are killed if they don’t confess to being witches. Overall, mass fear and panic, and false accusations are seen over and over throughout the play.

Proctor. For the first and only time in the play we see Abigail as her

My four years on the cross country team taught me so much more than how to run. I learned some of the most valuable lessons of my life through cross country. Most years, we had a quote on the back of our game day shirts. One of my favorite quotes read, “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” This quote is not only relevant to running but to life as well. Every person will experience pain in their lives just as every person will experience pain while running and training. Suffering is often a choice. It can easily be self-inflicted, and, just as easily, be avoided. This quote encouraged me to push through

The Crucible book written by Arthur Miller  based on a real life story that happened in 1692 to 1693 In Salem Massachusetts was based on lies and injustice, genre is play, The author's purpose is to inform the audience about what happened during the witch trials .  The Salem Village was full Puritans and they was very strict based on church rules. People that missed church regularly will be justified as a witch or malignant and will be put to shame on a stockade. People that break the rules of the strict religious town will hang or live if such person decides to confess, If they confess the accused person will still be imprisoned and not killed. Also if you was accused of practicing witchcraft you will be accused by the people and go

The Crucible takes place in Old New England during the time when Puritans were the dominant culture. The movie is based around incidents that sparked the Salem witch trials. In 1692 a woman by the name of Abigail Williams, the niece of the esteemed Reverend Parris, and a group of her friends where playing in the forest with an African American Slave named Tituba in Salem, Massachutes. They were caught with the slave and questioned. Unfortunately, when they were caught one of the girls, Betty, fainted; betty was the daughter of Reverend Parris. While people in the town are wondering what happened to Betty Abigail is pulled aside by a man named John Proctor. Abigail and John had an affair when Abigail worked for him as a servant. When Johns

The rain had been barreling down all morning. This frightened me a great deal, for I was prepared to compete in my first official Cross Country race of the season. I waited for this day I for quite a few months. Unfortunately, previous back-to-back injuries prevented me from fulfilling my dream of running on uneven surfaces. Therefore, I was restricted to only run flat track. I spent all of my summer practicing for this year’s season. Many of my friends and family thought I was irrational for practicing on my time although I knew it would be for a great reason. The transition from flat surfaces to an off road more complex terrain was extremely challenging. There were numerous days that I struggled and just wanted to give up. However, my determination factor would not let me give up. In addition, I

All throughout my life I loved to run; I even participated in track and cross country all throughout middle school and high school to quench my thirst for a long run. Around the beginning of the winter of my junior year, there came a time when I thought I could no longer run. Cross country has especially taught me how to never give up even in the darkest of times. One day I came back from a normal run, my knees hit the floor and the rest of my body followed. My arms felt stiff and my legs felt weak, the fear of never being able to run haunted me. On that fateful day, with my knees feeling weak and my arms heavy as lead, I picked myself off the ground and made a promise to myself that one day I would get my body to function as it once did. Without certainty, I persevered and kept searching for a cure for my illness, looking ahead into tomorrow, so I would be able to run fast and ferocious as a lion chasing its prey in the wild. To further elaborate upon my situation, whenever I would do strenuous physical exercise, or even write in class, my muscles would instantly feel fatigued. It felt very

By the time we had run to the hospital at our practice, I felt like I was going to die. My legs were as tired as a sloth. I had never been so tired in my life. I had an awful cramps that wasn't going away, and I felt like I was going to lose my lunch. I wanted to walk so badly. To help myself keep going I kept saying the following sentence in my head, “I will not stop, I will keep running, I will push myself as far as I can go.” With my ponytail waving in the wind, I kept going. When we got back to the school. I was exhausted and glad to be finished the run. If that was how hard we were going to go at all of our practices, I didn't know if I could do it. The cross country coach Mrs. Wrigley told me I should give it to weeks and I will start to notice a difference when I run, so I decided to keep going to the practices. I had set a goal for myself to continue to go to the practises for the next two weeks. It was hard but I persevered and push through

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I knew that this would happen, but I still laced up my spikes and ran this race.

The summer before my sophomore year, my cross country coach issued a challenge to our team to prepare for next season. Each athlete on our team was challenged to run over 400 miles that summer for training. It certainly wouldn’t be easy, it equated out to running over four miles a day, but several athletes on our team took up the challenge, including myself. We had no idea what we had gotten ourselves into. By the end of the first week, nearly half of the athletes who had started had given up. I was ahead of pace, as the idea had excited me in the hopes that I could

The Crucible is a story of love and lust, of paranoia and hatred, and of terror and faith. This play, written by Arthur Miller has many themes woven into the story, and they all reveal his own personal morals. The portrayal of John Proctor's redemption from his deceitful marriage is the strongest of these themes: you will find redemption if you seek to speak the truth. The changes John Proctor undergoes throughout the book highlight the value of truth, especially in relationships. His lies to his wife cause a wall of frost to grow between them, and though he may try to chip at the wall, the only thing that could melt it is the truth, no matter how heated an argument it may create.

The Crucible is a play by American author Arthur Miller. The play starts out with ten year old Betty Parris laying on her bed unconscious. Rumors begin to circulate that Betty fell victim to witchcraft. This drives the whole town insane and trust between peers has been lost. The accusations of witchcraft lead to a trial in which the whole town is involved in. John Proctor, a farmer, is having an affair with Abigail Williams, who is Parris’ niece. Betty eventually wakes up screaming and alerts the whole town. Reverend Hale arrives to examine Betty and her friends and tries to solve the dispute. After many hours of interrogation from Hale and Parris, Tituba finally admits to conspiring with the devil and she accuses everyone else of letting it happen. Abigail and Betty soon join in making the three of them witches in the town’s view. Though ostensibly a play about witchcraft, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is actually a play about greed and jealousy and how quickly it can turn people against one another.