Summary : ' The Crucible '

The Crucible is a historical play by Arthur Miller, and is set in the town of Salem during the late 1690s. The main characters are John Proctor, the protagonist, and Abigail Williams, the antagonist. The conflict occurs when Abigail falsely accuses others of witchcraft. This leads to hysteria in the town, with people turning in innocent people for witchcraft. Many people including John and Elizabeth Proctor are arrested and put on trial, despite their innocence. John Proctor is sentenced to death after refusing to denounce his friends as witches, forgiven by Elizabeth for his affair with Abigail, and restores his reputation of being a good man. The Crucible delves into the extent people will go betray others in order to benefit themselves

Reverend Parris is the one to blame for the witch trials in Salem because of his egotistical attitude. Parris states as he is talking to Proctor inside his house, “It is not for you to say what is good for you to hear” (Miller 30). At this part of the book, Parris ego shows us that he is the one to blame. Parris believes that he is right in thinking that he knows what is good for the community. In answering one of Danforth’s questions, Parris claims, “I can only say, sir, that I never found any of them naked” (105). Parris responds in such a manner so that his reputation of being a good father and a good minister are

A. Each prisoner received a copy of the Rules and Regulations for the Government… Correctional Institutions as well as a copy of the warden’s special rules that explained the daily routine of work and counts. The inmates were awakened at 6:30am to begin their day. They were required to clean up themselves and their cell and required to shave three times a week.

In the early 1962’ through 1963’ cases as “Salem witch trials” were taken place in Province of Massachusetts Bay in where Reverend Hale in “The Crucible,” by Arthur Miller was brought forward to Samuel Parris for assistance. This is where the proceedings and deceitful tragedies occur. Where Reverend Hale will be manipulated, deceived, praised, and exalted of his actions. But the will of this man will be changed during his whole experience in Salem.

The beginning of the Salem Witch Trials started in the home of the Parris family. Before all of the witch crisis started, Samuel Parris was living in London with his father a “cloth merchant”. His father died when Samuel was in his early twenties, he did not have any money so he decided to move to the “New World”, America, to start his new life as an owner of a sugar plantation. His business soon failed. When it failed he went to school to become a minister (Ragosta). He went to Salem to find out that they were in need of a new minister and after “a year to make his decision” (Ragosta) he became the minister of Salem. He was high maintenance man when he became the minister “He saw his position as something demanding and deserving respect

There is no typical jail. Many jails are part of multipurpose buildings that also serve as the county courthouse, the sheriff's office, or the police station. Others are larger and self-contained. Although it is often charged that most jails are antiquated, the majority of jails were opened between the 1950s and 1980s. Although most jails are small, rural or suburban facilities, almost half of all jailed prisoners are in large urban institutions, which tend to be chronically overcrowded. Many jails utilize double occupancy, perching two or more inmates into cells designed for one. Large numbers of inmates are also housed in dormitories. Many of these arrangements are a far cry from meeting the standards promulgated by the Commission on Accreditation

In 1790 The Walnut Street Jail became the first prison in the United States by converting a wing of the Walnut Street Jail for use in housing sentenced criminals for corporal punishment (Seiter, 2011). The philosophy or objective for the Walnut Street Jail was hard labor, strict discipline, solitary and silent confinement, and religious study, as a result prisoners were kept separate and silent. Prisoners were also masked as moved throughout the prison to avoid other prisoners identifying one another; they were given work, such as handicrafts during day and read the Bible and did penancing in the evenings (Seiter, 2011). When the state of Pennsylvania opened its’ first two prisons they adopted the Walnut Street Jail model of design and operations, which soon became known as the Pennsylvania system. As issues started resulting from the Pennsylvania system such as poor productivity of goods for resale; impossible to keep prisoners from seeing one another; too expensive to maintain as more staff were needed, and some prisoners becoming mentally ill; prison operators started searching for new ways to accommodate these issues. After acknowledging the doom of the Pennsylvania system, a new system that allowed prisoners to congregate during the day and remain separate and silent at other times known as the Auburn system.

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor changes in several different ways, from someone who doesn't care about others, to someone who would rather die with his morality concepts strong than live a day with salem and his children believing that he is collaborating with the devil. During the story, john proctor changes in one overall main way. he goes from a hot-headed adulterer, to in the end, someone who truly wants redemption and make things right by his wife.

The location utilized in this short story is an ideal prison location. It is considered to be a secluded area with nobody but a mansion at a particular landscape. “It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, three miles from the village” (Charlotte Perkins Gilman). The description of the place by the narrator shows an exact image of what the critic calls “Foucauldian prison.” “The narrator is confined to a nursery at the top of the house that is similar to a cell in Panopticon.” “In short, it reverses the principle of the dungeon; or rather of its three functions—to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide—it preserves only the first and eliminates the other two. Full lighting and the eye of a supervisor capture better than darkness, which ultimately protected. Visibility is a trap” (Michel Foucault, 1979). The prison in which the narrator is held is unlike every other prison that is known in the outside world. Rather than iron gates being used as doors to confine all inmates to a particular cell, wallpaper is used as bars instead. The critic believes that the light from the wallpaper was so bright. This is a feature not seen in an everyday prison.

John Procter while working for him while and sick wife at the time Elizabeth Proctor. Once

What is prison? To the public, prison is a place for only the most truly evil people in the country. However, contrary to popular belief, some prisons in the U.S. are not as nearly as bad as some of the others. In other words, not all prisons are created equally. The conditions of some American prisons are horrendous. Two grown averaged sized men are being crammed into a six by eight foot concrete cage (“Minncor Industries”). Keep in mind, that dimension includes the bed frames, toilet, sink, and sometimes a desk as well. When the prisoner has to use the bathroom, he is exposed in front of his cellmate and anyone who is in the hallway. Many would describe these conditions as unacceptable and cruel, when others would call them necessary. While these conditions certainly are not the most private or the most

Each building is called by a number. Inmates are segregated into the different building depending on their crime. The first building is usually is for inmates with the longest sentences or on death rope. the second building is usually for political prisoners. The third building is for foreigners, which are usually accused

Abigail Williams was a young girl who lived with Betty Parris. Abigail was jealous of Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor. She was in love with John, as John had committed adultery with Abigail. She wanted to get Elizabeth out of the picture so that she could have John for herself. Abigail

The doors were replaced with steel bars and the rooms (now cells) were secretly monitored. Video cameras were put up in the hallways to monitor activity of the guards and prisoners. A closet was set up to stimulate the idea of solitary confinement, it was referred to as “the hole”. Clocks were removed so the passage of time would be unknown. The prisoners were arrested, taken to the jail (Stanford) and greeted by a person resembling a warden. The prisoners were searched and sprayed down with water to humiliate and degrade them, which would establish a dominance in the guards. Real prisoners often feel humiliated and emasculated so to create that feeling the mock prisoners were given dresses to wear as their uniform this made them act and

This building is best depicted through an example of a prison where prisoners are placed in cells and guards patrol these prisoners from a central tower.