Geography has an impact on people and landscape. Geography can have an impact on weather. Witters use geography to change characters in ways that the world may not be able to. Like the characters in, “The Crucible” they change based on the geography on where they live. The real world with geography may have an impact on some people but not others. Geography can change a whole culture in literature and in the real world.
In “Geography Matters,” the author claims that setting has a huge role in developing the plot. The author writes, “And that’s geography. Sure, what else. I don’t know, Economics? Politics? History?” The author is trying to say that geography isn’t just one thing. Geography can be shown in many ways including the ones that was just written. Economics can change how a person is politically. History can change an entire family tree. In literature the impacts of geography can be shown through the theme of the writing.
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Hale and Abigail Williams within “The Crucible” change together throughout the play. Abigail Williams is one of the suspects of people that committed witchcraft when Rev. Parris saw her and other girls dancing in the woods. Rev. Hale is called into Salem when the situation gets worse and Betty falls into a strange coma. Here Abigail gets anxious and tries to get Betty to wake up. She does and starts screaming for her mom. Her mom died and is no longer with her. Scenes later when Rev. Hale is looking at Betty to see if he can fix her, Rev. Parris tells Hale that he saw the girls dancing in the woods. In panic Abigail starts to yell out people’s names in hope she doesn’t get hanged. Every other girl in the room starts to do the same . Betty mysteriously awakens and starts to name out names as well. This is when Hale goes into a panic mode, just like Abigail did moments ago. “She sends her spirit on m in church…” Abigail says to Hale. This quote explains that Abigail is in panic mode and is trying to put all the blame on
Towards the middle of the play Hale has begun to see that abigail is out for vengeance than actually finding witches. “Only this consider: the world goes mad, and it profit nothing you should lay the cause to the vengeance of a little girl” (Miller 74). Hale has now realized that the Devil may be at work in Salem but if he is it is not on Abigail and the girls. Once the girls but mainly Abigail accuse Elizabeth Proctor most people especially John Proctor and Reverend Hale begin putting two and two together that these girls are out for blood and not revealing who is conspiring with the
In the beginning of The Crucible, Reverend Parris of Salem, Massachusetts calls for Reverend John Hale. Reverend Parris believes Hale is an expert to everything related to witchcraft and is the best in the field. Reverend Hale has been summoned to determine if there is any evidence of witchcraft in Salem. When Hale arrives, carrying a number of heavy books, he is confident that he can use the books information to help discover if witchcraft is truly at work in Salem. Upon his arrival, the first thing he does is examine Betty Parris, the daughter of Reverend Parris, who supposedly has been stricken with witchcraft. This may be the only reason Hale visits Salem, but he stays to assist with the sudden accusations of witchcraft that arose up around the small village of Salem.
First, In the book The Crucible Abigail Williams is the vengeful, manipulative, and a liar. She seems to be uniquely gifted at spreading death and destruction wherever she goes. She has a sense of how to manipulate others and gain control over them. All these things add up to make her one good antagonist with a dark side. In Act I, her skills at manipulation are on full display. When she's on the brink of getting busted for witchcraft, she skillfully manages to pin the whole thing on Tituba and several of Salems other second class citizens. Also since Abigail's affair with John Proctor, she's been out to get Elizabeth, his wife. She convinced Tituba to put a curse on Elizabeth, hoping to get rid of her and take
All of a sudden there was a witch outbreak in Salem Massachusetts. The following day the girls were found in bed inert. The doctor attempted to figure out the sickness the girls could have. However, he could not give the sickness any name. Then Reverend Hale was called in to help the town cure its unnatural problem. Throughout the play Reverend Hale contributed to both sides of the arguments. At the beginning he believed the court was doing God’s job. Towards the end his character changes and is less in favor of the court and more in favor for the people being wrongly accused. Reverend Hale’s is seen to be independent, confident and outspoken. These traits end up changing towards the end of the play. Reverend Hale is a dynamic character in The Crucible written by Arthur Miller he changes from protecting the authority of the court with the strict laws, later realizing the court's accusations were unjust, to finally changing his beliefs in the false accusations and supernatural rumors.
Later on Abigail begins to accuse innocent people of doing witchcraft which causes them to die. Abigail Williams uses the Salem Witch Trials to put out all the resentment she has toward everyone. Abigail commits adultery with Elizabeth’s husband who is John Proctor. In The Crucible John was thirty years of age and Abigail who was just seventeen. Even with a huge age difference Abigail seems to think
Throughout The Crucible, Reverend Hale is a faithful and intelligent minister. He comes to Salem as the spiritual doctor to respond to the rumors of witchcraft, which have been flying in Salem after the strange illness of Reverend Parris’s daughter, Betty Williams. Hale never declares witchcraft, but he relies on people’s evidence of it because of the large amount of evidence. As the play goes on, Hale’s intelligence leads him to other sources of hysteria and accusations. The change in the character of Reverend Hale is noticeable throughout the play. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend Hale grows from a confident, authoritative figure, trying to end witchcraft in Salem, to a regretful, fair character who wants to end injustice and save innocent lives.
"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond started off asking us one question. "Why did history unfold differently on different continents? Why has one culture—namely that of Western Europe—dominated the development of the modern world?" Diamond proceeded by telling us that the answer to that question was geography. We watched a portion of this small movie and at the end of class we were asked to compare the movie to chapter 3: Invisible Warriors: The Myth of the White Conquistador. I had to sit down and really think about it. The movie was based on agriculture while chapter 3 was focused on war- so I decided to make my main focal point to be: What is the link between agriculture and war?
In every family, there is one child that is always very misleading and evil, and besides that, they get away with everything that they do that is unsound. The certain person in the family may break on of you mom’s favorite plate, and then end up placing the blame on you, and then persuades your parents that he or she is telling the true. Abigail Williams is the poor duplicate of that sibling or relative. She influences everyone that she is an innocent teenage girl, but that is not the case throughout the play. In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail is the bona fide misleading and evil teenage girl.
“A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692.” This is the first sentence in Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible. This book often is referred to as ‘powerfully disturbing’ because of the fictional part of Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts. This book is a fictional account of an event in Salem during the witch trials. The book starts out by introducing the characters as one of the characters Betty is lying unconscious in her bed. The first few pages of the book explain to us the surroundings of the scene that is about to take place. People begin to gather around Parris’ house where his daughter Betty is lying in the bed unconscious, unable to move and eat, etc. As people witness that Betty has been laying there for a few days, rumor starts to spread of witchcraft being involved. Abigail is Betty cousin, she knows what has happened with Betty because she was there with her and the other girls. She is deciding not to tell anyone, especially Parris when he asks because she is scared to get caught and put on trial or burned, etc. They have a long argument about it and as Abigail and the slave Tituba were listing of names of people
In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail is a mean and vindictive person who always wants her way, no matter who she hurts. Through out the play her accusations and lies cause many people pain and suffering, but she seemed to never care for any of them except John Proctor, whom she had an affair with seven months prior to the beginning of the play. John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth used to employ Abigail, until Elizabeth found out the affair and threw Abigail out. Although John told Abigail that the affair was over and he would never touch her again, she tried desperately to rekindle their romance. "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again." (Page 23) She claimed that she loved John and that he loved her. Before the play began, Abigail tried to kill Elizabeth with a curse. She thought that if Elizabeth were dead John would marry her. Further into the play, Abigail accused Elizabeth of witchcraft. She saw Marry Warren, the Proctor's servant, making a poppet. Mary put a needle into the doll, and Abigail used that for her accusation. She stabbed herself with a needle and claimed that Elizabeth's soul had done it. Although Abigail claimed she loved John, she may have just loved the care and attention he gave her. John cared for her like no one else had. In a way he could be described as somewhat of a father figure to her. When Abigail was just a child, she witnessed her parents' brutal murders. "I saw Indians smash my dear parent's heads on the pillow next to mine..." (page 20) After her traumatic experience, she was raised by her uncle, Reverend Parris, who is somewhat of a villain. In the play it was written, "He (Parris) was a widower with no interest in children, or talent with them." (Page 3) Parris regarded children as young adults who should be "thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak." (Page 4) Therefore, it is obvious to see that Abigail grew up without any love or nurturing.
In the story The Crucible, accusations of witchcraft are flooding the town of Salem. In the opening scene of the story, Abigail Williams and Betty Parris are caught dancing around a fire in the woods, which was an action that was forbidden in the town. Betty then resides into a deep coma, where she is sleeps for multiple days at a time and witchcraft soon becomes the talk of the town. As Betty wakes she begins trying to fly out of her window and she is refusing the Lord’s name. Reverend Hale is then called into the town to try and cure the witchcraft that is quickly beginning to spread through the town. As Reverend Hale arrives in the town, Tituba, Abigail Williams and many other begin to confess of being in cohorts with the devil. As the
Social geography plays a big role in a person's life. Social geography includes segregation, economics, class, and race. All of these factors play a part in how a person lives and the way they are treated in society. Another factor that affects a person's society is the way that a person looks. Monstrosity can affect a person's entire life as far as where they live and even their class. In the novels Frankenstein, The Monster and Native Son, there is a relationship between social geography and monstrosity. The characters in the novels were victims of the relationship between monstrosity and social geography.
Abigail’s struggles come from many of her personal desires that are forbidden in her society, causing her to lie. However, this also creates further social problems, such as the initiation of the witch trials. After Betty is stuck in a coma, Reverend Parris questions Abigail about the night in the woods, because he is suspicious and she denies that it had anything to do with witchcraft. Abigail replies to Parris saying, “ We never conjured spirits” (24). Abigail lies to Parris, denies the statement that witchcraft ever occurred, and says that all they did was danced. Witchcraft and dancing both are sins in the society, and she knows that her reputation is at stake and finds the need to lie to look innocent. Parris wants to be sure and calls Reverend Hale to look further into the issue. Once Reverend Hale comes into town, he questions Abigail about the night, and she once again denies everything he asks her. Abigail is being questioned by Hale, and once Tituba enters she screams, “ She made me do it! She made Betty do it! She makes me drink blood!” (45). Abigail denies every...
Human activity has major effects on geography. When studying the earth you can come to several conclusions about the geography of any particular civilization. Distribution of life in the civilization allows you to analyze whether their geography is their own destiny. Do people control their own destiny? Is geography something that people can control? Technology is really the key to why geography can be overcome by any people.
The geographic depiction offered in the book gives the reader unfamiliar with this region of the world a 1) starting point on a world map and a 2) sense of not only where but the density covered by the book. With this sense the reader can better understand why there is demographic, cultural, and language differences within and among the many countries as well as the root similarities.