The Crucible, a historical play by Arthur Miller, is based on events of the Salem Witchcraft trials. The play takes place in a small Puritan village in Massachusetts in 1692. It begins with Abigail Williams leading a group of girls to the forest with Tituba, a slave woman from Barbados believed to have special powers. After being caught by Reverend Parris, his daughter Betty enters into a coma-like state. In order to protect themselves and the girls, Abigail initiates an accountability session and names all of the innocent people in town. This leads to Abigail’s condemnation of Elizabeth Proctor, which John Proctor believes is solely done to get her out of their relationship that was developed during their affair seven months back. Hoping to free Elizabeth from charges, Proctor goes to the court with the assistance from Reverend Hale and Mary Warren, and explains to the officials that everything is pretense. However Judge Danforth, with disbelief, sentences Proctor and the other locals to death. This play shows the social chaos in the village that results from superstition. The author, Arthur Miller, employs superstition to create a society in which people blindly accept belief that strange events happen out of the ordinary. In Act One, just after Betty falls into a coma-like state, Reverend Parris calls for others to come in to investigate what is happening. Abigail ferociously attempts to wake Betty up. She succeeds, but Betty rushes to the open window, thinking she can fly. Abigail grabs her before she jumps out and drags her back to bed. Out of nowhere, Betty exclaims: “...You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!” (p. 19) Through the speech of an ignorant, little girl, Miller portrays just how inane this Puritan world really is. The fact that the crowd gathered by Parris is provoked demonstrates the superstition of the people. Betty’s alarmed tone and incredulous words show the gullible nature of the village. It is evident that the Puritans believe everything they see and hear much too abruptly. Miller continuously applies the concept of superstition as a motif in this play. Reverend John Hale of Beverly is called upon by Mr. Parris to investigate the afflicted Betty. He brings in aid with him a half a dozen heavy books. Hale carefully examines Betty and strives to wake her, but fails. Trying to gain better knowledge of the situation, he asks: “Mr.
The Crucible – Characters and Changes & nbsp; Change is good for the future. " We hear the catchy phrase everywhere. From company slogans to motivational speeches, our world seems to impose this idea that change is always a good thing. Assuming that the change is for the better, it is probably a true statement in most cases. The root of this idea seems to come from the notion that we are dissatisfied with the state that we are in, so, in order to create a more enjoyable environment, we adjust.
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Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is set in Salem village where an atmosphere of enmity and mistrust has been created through the conflicts and disagreements many villagers experience throughout the play. Many of these are caused by or, similar to the conflict between Parris and Proctor, are inflated by the many accusations of witchcraft occurring in the village.
Arthur Miller displays elements of mass hysteria through the town’s large number of accusations. Even though a person knows they are not guilty when or if they are accused, they still get worried. People act differently independently versus in a group because in a group they can accuse another person or say that someone else is to blame. If someone is alone they have no where to hide. Abigail has slept with the married man John Proctor. Abigail acts like a harlot when alone with Proctor. Yet she still tries to be a perfectly behaved lady around other people. “The belief in witchcraft was, at bottom an
“But here I can creep smoothly…that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.” Jane had the backing and support of other feminists whom may have created that smooch for her, Kate Chopin’s feminist novel, The Awakening had come out around the same time The Yellow Wallpaper was published. Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist work had come out a century earlier, creating a smooch for these writers to follow. Thus, Jane left her smooches all around, for other women to pick up on and continue her movement.
Persecution has been a round for sometime and can be traced historically from the time of Jesus to the present time. Early Christians were persecuted for their faith in the hands of the Jews. Many Christians have been persecuted in history for their allegiance to Christ and forced to denounce Christ and others have been persecuted for failing to follow the laws of the land. The act of persecution is on the basis of religion, gender, race, differing beliefs and sex orientation. Persecution is a cruel and inhumane act that should not be supported since people are tortured to death. In the crucible, people were persecuted because of alleged witchcraft.
...d change if I was the teacher in this BIC class would be having more structured lessons. The class was comprised of two sixth graders, a seventh grader, and an eighth grade student, all who seemed to be doing the same curriculum. The teachers would have different subjects to teach, especially with three teachers. Lessons could be one on one and be extensive in content, the lessons could be very engaging promoting higher order thinking skills.
Loyalty is a very admirable trait, and one Elizabeth Proctor possesses. She constantly demonstrates her devotedness as she proves her reputation and is pledged to her husband throughout the story. John, her husband, has his share of faults and has acted in ways that have disappointed Elizabeth. Through it all, however,
Tom shows characteristics of Peter when Casy is killed because immediately after the death he takes the club and beats the man. This is a parallel to when Jesus was taken in the Garden of Gethsemane and Peter cut off the guard’s ear after Jesus was taken. Tom also starts speaking like a preacher. When Tom is talking about the death of his grandpatents Pa say, “Here’s Tommy talkin’ like a growed-up man, talkin’ like a preacher almos’” (Steinbeck 313).
Another important work Miller wrote, The Crucible, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, during the 17th century. It is a time when jealousy and suspicion poisoned the thinking of an entire town. Neighbor turned against neighbor when events happened that could not be explained. Accusations turned into a mad hunt for witches who did not exist. One of the main characters of the play is John Proctor, a well-respected man with a good name in the town. As the play develops, John Proctor’s moral dilemma becomes evident: he must decide whether to lie and confess to witchcraft in order to save his life, or to die an honest man, true to his beliefs.
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The statue of Augustus, like many others at the time, is a work used to glorify Augustus. The same can be said for The Votive Stature of Gudea, it was crafted in a way that made Gudea seem like a better ruler than he may have actually been. Both works have a great significance in their respective time periods because they are in remembrance of great leaders. While the works may exaggerate the roles each men played, both accomplished many great things for their countries. Augustus DID THIS and Gudea rebuilt many temples. The pieces differ because of their historical contexts. In roman art, propaganda was huge. The Augustus of Primaporta serves as a reminder and justification of some of the things Augustus did as a ruler, all the while incorporating the religious and peaceful themes that were so used by Roman artists. The work communicated Augustus’s connection to the past, to the military, and to the gods in a propagandistic way. While the Votive Statue of Gudea may not have been crafted for a propagandistic purpose, the statue of Gudea presents a lot of the same ideals as the Augustus of Primaporta. The work presents Gudea as a strong and peaceful leader who was worthy of divine favor. This is a common theme for depicting rulers throughout art history and in modern times today. Rulers want to seem god-like, or at least prove that God
The play, set in the 1600’s during the witch hunt that sought to rid villages of presumed followers and bidders of the devil is a parallel story to the situation in the US in the 1950’s: McCarthyism, seeking the riddance of communist ideologists. Miller sets this story more particularly in a village called Salem, where the theocratic power governed by strict puritan rules require the people to be strong believers and forbid them to sin at risk of ending up in hell. However, the audience notices that despite this strong superficial belief in God, faith is not what truly motivates them, but it is rather money and reputation.
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Smith’s logic here is also relevant in regards to human nature, concluding that each individual’s natural tendency to work towards meeting their own needs will also unintentionally benefit society. There is a caveat this this rule however, Smith proses that ‘the division of labour is limited by the extent of power exchanging’ and by ‘the extent of the market’. Simply put, the rural areas cannot benefit from the division of labour because those individuals do not exist within an urban economic market that needs specialize work to further develop. Individuals in the rural areas are generally agrarian and still necessary for these individuals to have an affinity for all kinds of work to ensure that their needs are met thus specialization is not within their rational