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    Arthur Miller once said “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks”. The topic of lies, truth and the ultimate betrayal is demonstrated in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. In the play, which takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690’s during the Salem witch trials. Innocent people in Salem are being accused of witchcraft because of hysteria and deceit. The Salem witch trials resulted in the deaths of many of the falsely accused. Countless lies are told, deceit never ends and people turn to each

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    The 1996 film The Crucible is a fictional account of the Salem witch trials. While there are many historical inaccuracies in the movie, it does capture some of the themes in scholarship on the period. The film presents the town of Salem in a similar way to how it is depicted in the textbook. The film gets the basic outline of the Salem witch trials right. A group of girls started a panic by accusing an enslaved woman and two other women of bewitching them. During the event more than 200 people were

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    given human rights. Most americans opposed this and as a result began to beat and hang african americans. Lynchings became regular to americans, and many of them felt committing these murders was okay. The same can be seen in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible , When the people of salem began hanging fellow townspeople in a widespread fear of witches. This Mob Hysteria can endanger lives of the innocent, create conspiracy within societies, and cause people to ignore evidence and reason. When people are

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    English 3 Honors 13 March 2024. Abigail's Redemption A place where religion rules supreme in a small village called Salem, I would question how far you must go until you can't be forgiven? For it is said that God is forgiving. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a false cry of witchery spreads like wildfire, causing innocent people to be forced to confess to the sin of witchcraft and tarnish their good name or hang for defending their honor. I believe despite the horror resulting from Abigail's unhonest

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    The conflict that arises in Macbeth’s psyche during the first act of Shakespeare’s play is similar to that of a drug addict on the verge of overdose. Both are thrown into the crucible of their minds in a desperate conflict between their ambition to achieve a higher state, and the reminder that there are aspects of their current level that are virtuous in nature. Macbeth’s confliction begins when the idea of murdering King Duncan to gain his throne was seeded in his mind by a prophecy foretold by

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    destroying their ideal of a New Jerusalem. In result, the misconception of the cross-dressing, AIDS invested gay and the poor, unchristian female witch promotes the negative policies. The homophobic DADT and the persecution of witchcraft in The Crucible are established by religious influences in the government. Christian officials in present-day America view their opposition to homosexuality in the armed forces as “part of a larger effort to preserve and expand the Christian character of the military

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    Subtext In The Crucible

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    profound sadness, and through relationships between characters, portrays the “cries of the heart.” There is no cry more powerful that the cry and inner desperation of the heart. Williams’s has very little social context, but rather focuses on the conflicts within a domestic family. Such a focus is powerful, and the playwright expresses this power and importance implicitly through the estranged relationship between Amanda and Tom Wingfield. Amanda and Tom share a familial relationship of mother and

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    Summative Analysis Both of the educators I observed this semester presented great examples of each of the learning outcomes. The educators varied in styles of their practices, but both educators want to achieve the same goal with their students. Mr. Cornutt from Saks High School likes to practice open class discussions with his students and wants the students to feel comfortable explaining their personal observations in a public setting. Mrs. Morgan from White Plains High School practices

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    end up with the right regrets." The quote of this meaning is that people are falsely accused, but they may be innocent. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is a play based upon events that occurred in Salem circa 1690s. Through Abigail Williams, Miller was trying to state the injustice in Salem because she targeted the innocent people, leading to their death. Many of the conflicts that occurred in the play were caused by Abigail Williams. Abigail's jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor was triggered by Elizabeth's

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    Matthew Shults A.P. English Language August 11, 2014 Novel Analysis Assignment The Crucible by Arthur Miller Plot and Conflict The Crucible is a play that takes place in the 17 century in Salem, Massachusetts. As the play starts, Reverend Parris caught some girls naked dancing in the woods. Apparently the girls where stirring up spirits and to escape the punishment of the accusations of being witches, they blame other women in Salem. Later on in the play, Elizabeth Proctor finds out about John Proctor

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