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    fire; A lie means more people dead, including those who were innocent. By this point in the play, many people were being sent to trial and sometimes dying, because of the lies told by the girls. In act 3, Danforth asks Mary Warren, “Then you tell me that you sat in my court, callously lying, when you knew that people would hang by your evidence? Answer me!” (Miller 97). She responds by stating “I did,”

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    Abigail Williams presence and influence in the town of Salem causes a shadow to loom over the villagers of the act in Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible”. Throughout the Act II, Abigail’s presence influences the Proctor’s marriage and the young girl actions. Prior to the witchcraft accusations in the town of Salem, Abigail has an affair with John Proctor, a married man. Abigail yearns for John Proctor’s affection, and this causes her to disrupt the Proctor’s marriage. Upon confronting John about their

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    police arrested former U.S. Marine Corps Private Lee Harvey Oswald. On November 24 of the same year, Jack Ruby, owner of a Dallas nightclub, shot Oswald. Less than a year after the two murders, on September 24, 1964, the Warren Commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, released a report stating their verdict that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy "alone and without advice or assistance" (Encarta). Now, thirty-five years after the

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    Born in Los Angeles, California on March 19,1891, raised in Bakersfield, California and attended UC Berkley this California native would be the Progressive Republican who reshapes many aspects of California in his three terms as Governor. Being modest and a realist, were key components in Earl Warren’s success. Although many may have disagreed with Earl Warren’s leadership, he made profound impacts on California by shaping the state after World War II, taking on controversial issues and bringing

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    kills many other people along the way. She lies to the court to protect herself and makes up false events to make sure the accused are found guilty, to show people she is still innocent. Abigail is turning into more of a crazy lady. Accusing everyone that gets in John Proctor, and her way, even her friend Mary Warren who turns on her. “You will confess yourself.” Danforth yelled at Mary, “or you will hang!” (1093). She accused Mary Warren by mocking her. Tho when the play drags on Abigail gets

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    David Shaw who was the Warren Commission chief staff investigator. Was not surprised that McCone had personally held so much information about John F. Kennedys assassination and plots for Castro (The CIA Director part of the JFK assassination cover-up). McCone´s report might suggest

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    The Crucible Reflection

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    The Crucible The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. In the crucible, one of the characters Elizabeth Proctor is a moral Christian woman who is true to her husband, John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor changes throughout the play from emotionless

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    Tituba The Crucible

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    The crucible, by Arthur miller, open with reverend Paris, a ministry in Salem, observing his daughter Betty. Afterwards, rumors where spreading throughout town about Betty being sick because of withcraft. Reverend Pariss niece, Abigail, got caught by reverend Paris dancing in the forest with his own slave, tituba. Abigail is an orphan who used to be john and Elizabeth proctor ps servant, yet due to a peculiar reason, now she lives in pariss house. Furthermore, Thomas and Ann Putnam wanted to know

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    are external, there are also examples of severe internal conflict, as can be seen in Millar’s protagonist character, John Proctor. Mary Warren, Proctor’s servant-girl, is also a victim of internal conflict within the play. Proctor, in addition, is involved in external conflict too, between him and Judge Danforth, him and Elizabeth Proctor, and him and the Court of Salem. Each of these conflicts are crucial to the plot, and when represented, complicate the action of the text towards its final resolution

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    Arthur Milller’s The Crucible and Katherine Howe’s Conversion follow teenage girls and how their individual actions and actions as a group affect colonial Salem Village and present day Danvers, Massachusetts. In Salem Village an outbreak of witch accusation by a group of young women tears apart the entire community and has everyone question what the truth is. Religion and honesty are large factors in peoples’ views on the situation taking place in Salem. In modern day Danvers an outbreak of a mystery

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