William Shakespeare 's ' The Crucible '

Most people would not like to be known as a coward. Mary Warren was not aiming for that title, but that is what she ended up with. She gave herself this negative reputation. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play about the undergoing of the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692. A group of Salems girls, are caught dancing in the woods. To take allegation off of themselves, they accuse other innocent townspeople of practicing witchcraft. Multiple victims are murdered or imprisoned. Mary Warren, one of the accusers, plays a big role in this play. Mary Warren’s character changes from cowardly, to brave, and back to cowardly, throughout the story which shows how she evolved throughout The Crucible.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It all started when Reverend Parris discovers a group of girls dancing in the woods. After he found the girls in the wood, his daughter Betty fall ill. Since Betty wouldn’t wake up, people become paranoid and started believing that witchcraft was real. Fake accusations were made and innocent people kept dying. In The Crucible there are many people to blame for all for everything that occurred, characters such a Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, and Reverend Parris. Abigail Williams is to blame because she accused everyone else just to protect herself. Reverend Hale is also blame because he was the one who got people to think that witchcraft was real. Lastly Reverend Parris is to blame because he was just worried about himself and his reputation in Salem.

Arthur Miller has created John Proctor the protagonist of The Crucible to be a 30 year old farmer in Salem, Massachusetts, powerful of body, even-tempered and not easily led. John speaks his mind when he recognizes injustice. He is highly respected, even feared, by some in Salem. His name is synonymous with honour and integrity. He takes pleasure in exposing hypocrisy and is respected for it. However John is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time but against his own vision of decent conduct, he has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud. After admitting to lechery, John is accused of witchcraft, on this charge he is condemned.

“The conflict created when the will of an individual opposes the will of the majority is a recurring feature of drama.”

Melinda reflects on how she used to be like Heather, she says: “She's like a lost dog… She always walks with me down the halls chattering a mile a minute.” (24) Heather is very talkative. This is good for her relationship with Melinda, because, she likes to talk and Melinda would rather listen. In the text, Melinda always says that Heather always talks her into things.

In a perfect world, every citizen would be beatific because of their wealth, fame, and fortune. Each person would have a reason to smile every morning, and would not face any consequences if they took part in immoral actions. However, if one person seems out of place in a utopia, he or she may be a victim to oppression. In most fables, the unique character, or underdog, finishes victoriously: becoming the hero, winning over the girl, and so forth. This story line has been seen in many different fairy tales. The Crucible follows that same plot, but twists the typical denouement into one that portrays the darkness of a society meticulously. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible highlights the significance of conformity in a society of people and growing suspicion that will begin to lurk throughout a community if one is different. This is portrayed accurately by the vehement John Proctor, who had the ability to influence society conspicuously because of his refusal to act as a typical Puritan.

The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, depicts the hysteria that came to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Miller attempts to combine the idea of witchcraft illustrating a similar modern day example, called McCarthyism. In the mid twentieth century, Senator John McCarthy, an advocator of the Red Scare, used similar tactics to hunt communists and send them into exile. These communists then used the same defense mechanisms as citizens in Salem, to clear their names and put the liability on someone else. In the play, a young orphan, named Abigail Williams, felt inclined to attack others in order to dismiss the accusations made against her, and she did so successfully. In order to clear her name, Williams framed many people and victimized herself. As a result of her cruel tactics, Abigail is characterized as a selfish, merciless, and destructive villain. Abigail Williams is the antagonist of the play because she manipulates the other young girls, the court judges, and the life of John Proctor through malicious lies.

Since the beginning of time people have always been afraid. Afraid of the sun, sharks, bears, snakes, women, men, life, death, divorce, Catholics, Jews, democrats, republicans, Italians, Mexicans, Asians, but the question is not who or what people have been afraid of, the question is why. Why have people been afraid for thousands of years? There is always a reason at the heels of horror, terror and despair. When people fear something or someone, paranoia and hysteria begin to break down the human brain and influence the decisions they make. Throughout history, we as a people have seen the abstraction of fear dominate the masses while at the same time, cultivate hysteria.

Have you ever felt so so trapped you could not find the strength to share something? Speak is eye opening and heart wrenching novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson. It tells the story of a girl named Melinda who starts her first year of high school with no friends and a big secret. Her secret? She was a victim of sexual assault committed by a high school senior the summer before her freshman year.

of them can attain being imprisoned and even when they do battle to determine who wins Emily’s hand that is ultimately left to fate as the gods intervene when Arcite initially wins the bout. They make no attempt, as romantic heroes, to romance the object of their affection. Furthermore, despite the Knight’s tale being a romance, its center is more on the competition between the two men as opposed to the relationship Emily would have with one of them. Chaucer devotes two pages to their argument on who deserves Emily more, Arcite who loves towards her is a “love as to a creature” or Palamon whose love Arcite mocks as an “affeccioun of hoolynesse ”. It is this lack of agency and the different affections that Chaucer subverts in the Miller’s

singer of this song and Abigail both share the same type of jealousy due to love.

Tiffany’s friends name was Ashley. Ashley was similar to Tiffany in a lot of way except Ashley still had her boyfriend. Tiffany had to admit that she was slightly jealous of Ashley. Ashley’s Boyfriend is the captain of the football team he’s tall and has brown hair he has a muscular build and most girls have a crush

Pg 1] When Frannie was done with everything and headed to school she saw her friends. Then they all sat together also Frannie is exciting to see new students if there was any. There came a student and gave a note to Ms.Johnson. He was the only student that is new here. Frannie told her friends that Rayray and Maribel are pretty cute when they came into the room.

A week passes and Samantha still has not made any friends. But that day Alyssa had news that seemed unreal. The district decided to move her to middle school! Samantha was so excited, she was not the only one.

“Lindsey, Casey, it’s the first day. I do not want to separate the two of you already.” The two girls looked at the rubber floor and turned to the boy who had made them speak louder than they needed to before. The two girls saw only a barrier between them, a 38th parallel of friendship stood between them. The young girl who once greeted me with a friendly smile, now wanted nothing to do with me. I stood surrounded by other students, but I was alone in unfamiliarity of the new school.