I, Elizabeth Proctor, am innocent. I have faced countless ridicule, discrimination, and hatred over an act that was never performed by me, near me, or around me. No one I have ever known has been a witch, and there’s no more of a reason for me to be considered one too. Sure, I have made mistakes in my life, but nothing as to which would be basis for the grounds upon me being accused of witchcraft. This is simply preposterous! I have lived a good Christian life and been god-fearing, what more do you vile accusers expect of me? I have been a good wife to a cheating husband and now will be a mother to one. Even with a delayed hanging until my baby is born, of what good will my child be, being raised without a loving mother? How will my baby be …show more content…
He will simply transform into the character I have been painted to be. So not only will you be murdering an innocent mother, you’ll be harming the future of a young man. How can any of you supposed worshippers of the church be able to live with that. Any person with common sense can see exactly what’s happening: A couple young girls were playing around and experimenting with new information about witchcraft, not knowing it’s implications. As so does any child play around with what he just learned about. In an attempt to cover up their acts, they accused people of the very act they were committing. Can’t you see how all the attention is away from them and on us? It’s simply a tale of a child covering up, taken way out of context and is now being supported by the very judicial system that’s supposed to protect us! This is simply enraging. This situation could have been resolved with the girls receiving a slap on the wrist and a more formal education about our gracious creator. All of this foolishness is unnecessary, and anyone involved in this should easily be able to agree with me on this topic. And now these witchcraft accusations are being abused to acquire more land and more
Authors often have underlying reasons for giving their stories certain themes or settings. Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, The Crucible, is a work of art inspired by actual events as a response to political and moral issues. Set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, The Crucible proves to have its roots in events of the 1950’s and 1960’s, such as the activities of the House Un-American Committee and the “Red Scare.” Though the play provides an accurate account of the Salem witch trials, its real achievement lies in the many important issues of Miller’s time that it dealswith.
American author John Steinbeck once said, “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts - perhaps the fear of loss of power”. As seen in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, people of authority can feel pressured to go along with actions or make decisions they know are wrong because they fear losing their power and influence in society. They also tend to let to their opinions and motives impact their work and responsibility to make competent decisions. The Crucible demonstrates how people of authority, like Parris and Danforth, try to use good judgement to make fair decisions, but are often influenced by their own personal opinions whether they realize it or not.
-If you were in the same class I was in 2017 you may know why I named this like this. Also if you read The Things They Carried or know your vocabulary. Not just the name are familiar but the the whole story was about, WAR!!!. But this is much toxic and less world wide.
In the removed scene of “The Crucible” (Act 2, scene II), Abigail Williams meets John Proctor in the woods at night, where they talk about the occurrences in the town. Abigail tells John of the mental suffering she has gone through, and even shows John the physical proof of her sufferings: holes in her leg from witches’ needles, the wound in her stomach that Elizabeth’s spirit reopens every night, and the lump on her arm that George Jacobs strikes while Abigail tries to sleep. Abigail appears insane to the reader, who knows that she is connected to witchcraft and has no ability to see spirits. Abigail is crazy enough to injure herself in order to be believed by Salem’s court. She misleads herself into thinking that John will marry her one day. As for John, he sees Abigail’s deluded state. He wants to end Abigail’s influence over court, so he warns her that he’ll confess their affair in court, but she does not believe that he will
Reading The Crucible, provided me with an idea of what the characters were like, I had to visually interpret the play on my own. I had my own idea of the events and how the trials took place. Once I watched the movie, I was able to understand more of the scenes I couldn’t quite picture and I was able to see visually the play with enhanced my understanding of the witch trials and the various behaviors of the girls. There of course are differences from reading the book and watching the movie, however, much of the dialogue was very similar. The movie added scenes to dramatize the play and in the play there is much dialogue that was cut out. Watching the movie helps make the play more dramatic and suspenseful because you are able to visualize all that occurred
The Crucible is a story about how some girls from the town of Salem were found dancing naked around a fire in the middle of the bush. They were trying to do spells on the men that they love to love them back with a lady named tituba. The man that had found them was the leader of the ton and since his daughter was there she ran and then acted like if she was in a coma so she wouldn't get in trouble. The dad had thought that they did witchcraft in her and they had brought actual police fo a court. The Dying Girl that No One Helped is about how she was murder in the streets of New York in plain day time while 36 neighbors watched and did not do anything and the killer knew they weren't. Turns out that they were scared about being questioned. The stories both have similarities and differences.
At the end of the day it is clear that women hold all the cards and have a lot of power. Although there were many people with and without power in The Crucible, people went to to extremes to either gain power or stay in power for their own selfish motives.
First of all, I’d like to let the court know that I never wanted to be a witch. In fact, I actually wanted to become a doctor, or maybe a fashion designer, or even rescue poor abused animals, but no. I come from a family line in which every female becomes a witch. The transformation starts at age 16. First and the one I hate most, our skin turns a sickly green color. Then, our hair becomes dark as the night but during the day looks such as a grey-headed. Next, nasty warts grow on our nose and face. We are forced to wear black because it is the only color that compliments our green skin and our dark hair.
To all the gentleman of the jury, I’m here to defend Martha, the person who were accused for some unreasonable that have no witnesses but the victim. Therefore, I want to proof to you guys that Martha is innocent, and she does not participate in any of witchcraft. All of the accusation to Martha can be divided in three categories: for afflicting people, kill people’s cattle, and participate in witch-meeting at Salem Village. First I will talk about afflicting people. Some people were saying that Martha afflicted people for dead, which doesn’t make any sense and that is not a good reason to accuse someone because you can’t afflict someone without touching them, or give them stuff that can cause ailment or disease. Also, they didn’t give any
Do you believe in witches? In The Crucible, many people believed in the unthinkable. However, not everyone believed in witchcraft especially John Proctor, Giles Corey, and John Hale. In The Crucible ,Proctor, Giles, and Hale prove that standing up for their beliefs and being true is better than lying.
American president Abraham Lincoln once said, “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” (www.brainyquote.com). How long someone lives does not matter more than how they live. People remember actions more than anything else. Many people have two choices in a dilemma. They have to analyze different causes and effects the choices have. People have to choose the outcome they want to be known. Just as in life, literary characters have to choose between two opposite actions and live with the consequences. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor faces a crucible that causes him to question whether he will live or die. Because of his crucible, Proctor feels guilt, hopeless, and satisfaction.
Abigail Williams: “I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.”
Extremely talented and highly praised rapper, Eminem, sang in a song, “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.” Life is described as being a roller coaster with many ups and downs. No one knows what crazy events will happen from day to day. One play that really takes into account crazy things happening everyday is The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In this play, a group of girls dancing in the woods turns into a mass number of people hung for the accusations of witchcraft. As this play unfolds, I would have done three things very different if I was John Proctor.
It is a common question people have asked and the question is what the difference between “Good” and “Evil” is. This is difficult to find an answer to because it has the requirement of a moral background to be present, meaning that being good can mean one thing to one person and then another to some other person who has different beliefs or morals. In the Play, “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, “Evil” is brought up a myriad of times because of the fact that witches lay present in the Salem village, Massachusetts where the terror takes place. How evil is portrayed, people who aren’t witches but still have evil, and how evil is judged differently will be how “evil” is shown to be in the eye of the beholder.
Concerned citizens of Salem, if it were a good mornin' I would bid you that, however it is not. This mornin' a grave injustice is looming like the grey clouds before a storm. This morning we will bear witness to yet another brutal and senseless murder of two innocent Christians, Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor. Ladies and gentlemen, for four long months the very court that proposed to protect us from all evil has deceived us and in fact perpetuated the evil doings running rife throughout our fair town. For four long months a prodigious fear has settled itself in our very hearts, a fear of the unknown and a fear of becoming one of the accused. My friends, it must be clear to any truly Christian society that the devil be not among us in the form of witchery or wizardry, but in the manifestation of vengeance! I implore you to take a stand, to band together and to put a stop to this madness before it completely takes hold of Salem and you too are on trial for witchcraft!