The Crucible Essays & Research Papers

Reputation- Use it, don’t abuse it Having a good reputation is a goal that every human being wants accomplished during his or her life, but only to a certain extent. Having a reputation, the basic theme of this book, has a great amount of importance in The Crucible. This theme plays a tremendous role in what the basis of this book is. Arthur miller developed this theme throughout the book by accumulating characters with this quality. There are many characters in this book, but the ones that...

In Arthur Mille's The Crucible, only a handful of characters symbolize truth and lies. One character in The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor, remains honest throughout the entire situation that surrounds her. However, as an honest and loving Christian wife who passionately loves her husband, Elizabeth hides the truth when a dire situation arises, evidently leading to the demise of her husband. She realizes that the truth is something that must be continuously followed and one should never stray from...

In the 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts a CHRONIC conflict has come to surface. In Arthur Millers play, The Crucible, many characters are forced to go through drastic changes in their life, because of the teenage girls accusing people of witchcraft which eventually creates a chain reaction with everyone accusing of someone else of being a "witch." These drastic changes require the crucibles Reverend Hale, John Proctor, and Mary Warren to endure a test on their moral character. Reverend...

A tragedy is said to be "a representation of serious people"(Aristotle 94) . I n The Crucible, tragedy was used all throughout the story. For example, the characters lost dozens of their neighbors all because of one group of girl’s ability to lie. Through Aristotle’s definition of what a tragedy is; The Crucible can be easily defined as being a one with its tragic hero being portrayed through John Proctor and the seriousness of the overall play. John comes from a high position in society because...

In the novel “ The Crucible “, Honesty is what values each individual the most. It doesn’t matter what sex you are as long as you behold the power of honesty within. John proctor faces many souls that look past the asset of honesty such as Abigail Williams and Mary Warren and also encounters people that doesn’t believe one’s honesty whom are Judge Hathorne and Danforth. John Proctor and Giles corey are the only individuals that showed honesty and believes in others honest. He feels helpless when...

Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the whirlwind events of the Salem witch trials stem from the community's bottled up bitterness over political, financial, and personal issues. This devil-worship scandal is quickly seized by Abigail Williams as an opportunity to seek power and revenge. Abigail is a small-minded girl overflowed with resentment. She is an unmarried woman and also an orphan. Abigail must take the humble position of a servant, but her pride causes her to resent her low position on the...

Essay on The Crucible The role that grudges and personal rivalries play in The Crucible are a major part of the theatrical production. It is one of the main themes of the play, along with: revenge, witchcraft, deception, and religion. Of all the motives and justifications of the characters, grudge and personal rivalry is probably the most prevalent. For example, Abigail Williams, a lowly servant, used her own personal grudge against Elizabeth Proctor (her former employer) as an motive for...

Compare and Contrast the Characters and Actions of Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams. Which Of Them Do You Consider to Be More Responsible for John's Death, and why? In Arthur Miller's "The Crucible", there are two characters that differ in every aspect: Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. This ranges from the way they handle situations, their personalities, to their social statuses, history and so forth. Their social statuses can only be described as very contrasting: Abigail...

------------------------------------------------- The Crucible: Act I Characters Reverend Parris Abigail Williams Mary Warren Betty John Proctor Thomas Putnam Mrs. Putnam Rebecca Nurse Reverend Hale Tituba A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of they year 1692. There is a narrow window a the left. Through its leaded panes the morning sunlight streams> A candle still burns near the bed, which is at the right. A...

McKenna Elliott Mr. Jahnke English 10 3A 10 November 2013 Crucible paper Weakness, Jealousy and Manipulation In the 1950’s people were imprisoned for being accused as communists. Many lost their jobs and family. Many were afraid to stand up for themselves, therefore people just accused them even if they were innocent. How would innocent people feel if they were used as everyone’s scapegoat? Imagine if they had to accuse other people of witchcraft just to save there job, and social...

It is amazing how lies told by a young female in The Crucible can start so much trouble in society. In a puritan society they thought of woman as inferior to men, and that they were not capable of doing much. George Orwell who was a author and a critic once stated that,” Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits yet he is the Lord of all animals.” This...

Sinning For The Right Reasons Everyday, good people do bad things because they think it is the right thing to do. Sometimes religion is the cause, other times it is secular pressures. What happens if these ‘bad things’ people are doing are only bad according to their religion? And what if these ‘bad things’ really are understandable and rational but because of your biased religious surroundings are they considered bad? Arthur Miller’s The Crucible illustrates this concept vividly using the...

Jesse Aguirre Ms. Kim English 11-period 7 24 September 2012 In The Crucible, Arthur miller dramatizes the Salem witch trial, which people are falsely accusing of witchcraft because people were tempted to lie for their own benefit. Puritan societies were concern how they looked in other people eyes and judge each other based on their reputation. The ultimate goals of the puritans was to gain salvation because in order to look good in front of god eyes. The prideful character in The...

In the 17th century, religion had a major influence on authority. Religion and authority went hand and hand. An authority figure is someone whom has control, at least to a certain extent. My analysis of 17th century North American Calvinists and Puritanists display a shift of faith and assurance in religious authorities. This is evident in Mary Rowlandson’s “The Narrative of the captivity and the restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Verses upon the Burning of our house”...

The Crucible In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, I found three of the several themes shown throughout the play to be important. In Salem, fear rules the lives of the villagers, causing irrational actions. Also, the Salem Villagers are very manipulative people and will coerce others into doing what they want. Finally, the officials tend to follow either the letter of the law, or the spirit of the law, affecting the choices that are made in court. These themes are shown periodically throughout...

Evan Ferree Thibadeau/ English/ 11th 10/21/04 Although the sole basis of the Salem Witch Trials was deception, there were still the few skeptics who found hope of truth during the fabricated ordeals. The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller that depicts the dramatized happenings of the Salem Witch Trials during the time of the McCarthy trials. In Miller's play, the character Elizabeth Proctor is one of the only characters in the whole play who is associated with the truth in a time of...

Christian Ruiz Period. 2 The Crucible We all lie but to what point do the lies just go too far? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller Abigail Williams tells lies to the city of Salem, she speaks of witches. At first she told a small lie so she would not get it trouble but the lies soon escalated. Now she was lying for her own gain, to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor so she can have John Proctor all to herself. Arthur Miller teaches that lying is harmful through characters developed by the usage of...

the crucible essay Rev. Parris and Rev. John Hale are both important characters in the story. These two characters can easily be compared and contrasted. There are some commonalities between the two in the story. Both men are lead male figures in the town, but they were also ministers in the Puritan faith. This was important during this time period because of the beliefs of the time period. And the obvious one if you read the book, is that both are main characters in the story. One area the...

In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams' behavior is not without reason; her mental instability is to blame for her actions. For example, she saw her parents murdered as a child and this seems to have lead to her being mentally unstable. John Proctor, a much older man, also basically sexually abused her. And her being raised by Reverend Parris, the paranoid, power-hungry man, is sure to be messing Abigail up in some way or another. As a young girl, Abigail witnessed both...

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a play that explores the unfortunate events that the small town of Salem, Massachusetts undergoes. The play contains numerous forms of belonging from numerous characters. The church demands its members to obey its commands signifying they belong, and those who rebel against the church, such as John Proctor, who refuses to attend Sabbath are alienated and suffer persecution as a consequence. The churches commands displays how belonging can be enforced by a...

The Crucible Essay ‘The Crucible’ written by Arthur Miller is a play which contains a relationship between a male and female character that changes throughout the course of the play. This relationship would be the relationship of John and Elizabeth Procter. This relationship changes from being hostile and awkward at the start and changes to a loving and caring one by the end of the play. This illuminates the central idea in the play of forgiveness. The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts...

After studying Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, I have come to the conclusion that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, and the judge Hathorne. Each of these people, in some way, caused harm to blameless people, and I will, in this essay, explain what these people, knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches...

Mac Morton 12 April 2013 English 12 Essay Question Although Miller’s The Crucible takes place in the late 1600’s, its lessons are still applicable to us in 2013. This short essay focuses on three specific lessons that I have learned from the play, which are the negative effects of mass hysteria, the consequences of deviating from social norms, and the dominance of patriarchy. The first lesson that I learned was that mass hysteria often creates harmful stereotypes. In the play, mass...

Why did the Salem settlement need a theocracy? The author's notes say that the Puritans chose a theocracy to maintain unity in their settlement.   Why had the settlers begun to turn toward individualism? ...   How does Miller characterize Parris? He is a man who symbolizes the particular quality of moral repression & paranoia that drive the trials. Miller immediately establishes Parris as a man whose main concern is his reputation & status in the community,...

OMarah Page 1 Sadie OMarah Parsons Expo 20 Sep 12 The Crucible In the third act of “The Crucible,” Elizabeth Proctor makes a choice where she lies in order to save her husbands reputation. As this affects both her and her husband, it also affects the rest of the play. In order to save her husband, John Proctor, from lechery she lies to the court. Elizabeth didn’t know what was at risk; she also didn’t know what there was at risk. She didn’t know what there was to come with her words, in...

English III 6 November 2012 Integrity Reputation is the way that other people look at you, while integrity is the way you look at yourself. Many of the characters in the story had to choose to protect their reputation or their integrity. Parris, Abigail, and others chose reputation, while Rebecca and Proctor chose to protect their integrity. If they did show integrity and said they did not make a pact with the devil they were seen as liars and would hang for being witches, but when they...

Who evokes the most sympathy in the play? Arthur Miller’s famous 1952 court room drama ‘The Crucible’, based on the 1692 Salem Tragedy, explores the hysteria, strong theocracy and the importance of reputation in the town Salem. Many characters in ‘The Crucible’ generate empathy, but many do not. Sympathy does form for Abigail Williams the most, despite the fact she is seen as the play’s “evil villain”. Other characters however, also evoke condolence and concern like the honourable hero of the...

There are many characters that Arthur Miller has written about in The Crucible that have many meaning. Mary Warren is a character of importance and shows examples of a lesson that many people need to learn today. Demonstrating qualities of being a coward, fearful, and a very dishonest, the character of Mary Warren is developed by Arthur Miller in order to support lesson that many people need to learn today that if we do not learn from the past that history will repeat itself. Mary Warren is...

The Crucible Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In other words, Roosevelt may be saying that the only thing to be worried of is the feelings or actions that follow that scared feeling. This allegory and play written by Arthur Miller fits this quotation perfectly. Throughout The Crucible, Abigail and Mary Warren, grow an internal conflict that later turns into the plays external conflict. Abigail is a young girl who uses her imagination and...

The Crucible Arthur Miller wrote a play named The Crucible and soon after he wrote an article to help explain his play "Why I Wrote The Crucible". In the article "Why I Wrote The Crucible" It states that The Crucible was during the McCarthyism era. The McCarthy era was started by a man named Joseph McCarthy; who falsely accused many innocent people just like in the play how Abagail Williams falsely accused many innocent people who were either hanged or put into jail. Which supports one of...

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”-Albert Einstein Einstein’s thougts are also found in the play by Arthur Miller, The Crucible. In The Crucible, many characters are asked to compromise their integrity in exchange for their lives. John Proctor was one such character, but he refused to give up his integrity. He wanted to die with a good name in the eyes of the other villiagers. Another of he main characters, Abigail Williams, displays a complete lack...

Karol Dabrowski December 1, 2012 English III Period 2: Roll 12 Indicating Theme through Internal Conflict: An Examination of Miller’s Intent in The Crucible Theocracy is a method of government in which a divine being is formally recognized as the public Head of state and community officials are viewed as divinely guided. In a theocratic civilization, God himself is thought of as the head of state. Conscious of how a...

In the play, The Crucible, the symbolism of the characters play a very important role that go along with the time era of McCarthyism. Arthur Miller’s purpose of the characters in The Crucible was to show what people were like during the 1940s and 1950s. Symbolism is the use of an object, person, or event to represent something. In this case, Miller uses symbolism to signify the characters as people during the time of McCarthyism. In works like these, symbolism makes the story seem like every...

The Crucible When viewing the movie of The Crucible, many similarities were found in comparison to the novel. After the ceremony in the woods, Betty was found ill as to her inability to wake. By the time she comes to a wake, Betty begins to plead for her late mother. When she doesn’t get the answer she desires, she tries to “fly” to get to her mother by attempting to jump out the window. I feel as though these scenes were found similar to the novel was because their sense of urgency to find...

EWX1 11/22/05 Ms. R. Cohen Yongjie Feng The Crucible The Crucible is not only a recounting of the Salem witch trials. Behind this story, Arthor Miller most wants to say is the essentiality of humanity. The most representative thing is what people do is mostly to satisfy their own interests, so mush as willing to believe outrageous lies when those lies serve their interests. Arthur Miller develops the characters to present this theme. His depiction of...

Justice is meant to be administered with the upmost fairness and equality, although Aurther Millers play The Crucible demonstrates that this does not always prevail, and in numerous circumstances the forces of injustices are exposed. Those appointed to administer justice often misuse their power resulting in a lack of justice. The judges in the court of Salam do not deliver justice fairly and accuse those who are innocent without any tangible evidence. In addition, Justice failed to protect the...

Fear When the truth leads to one's death, and evil surrounds the living, what future awaits humanity? The fear of being a social outcast has even driven out the morals of the religious. As shown throughout the Age of Faith, particularly during the Salem witch trials, individuals are driven by a survival instinct. Early Americans acknowledged that they needed each other to survive; many were frightened by the prospect of braving the American wilderness alone. This fear led people to conform to...

 McCarthyism and The Crucible It has been said many times that if people don't learn from their mistakes they are doomed to repeat them, such is the case throughout history. There are many different examples of this, but one example is the blatant similarities between the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts and the era of McCarthyism. When considering the nature of these events, it is hard to believe that they could have actually happened, not would only once, but twice. If one would...

Quote #1 The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil’s last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God....

The Crucible Many different parts form together to make up the society we see in The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Whether it be religion, government, or social roles; they all play some sort of impacting part to the characters we met while watching The Crucible. Who knew that religion and government could change a person’s life in a matter of minutes like it did so many times throughout the movie. The characters like Abigail Williams and John Proctor both knew the risks of going...

John Proctor vs. Reverend Parris In “The Crucible,” it is clearly illustrated that religion is the foundation in which the society of Salem is built upon. This directly implies that morality is highly valued in the society. In the beginning of the play, Arthur Miller draws a distinct line between John Proctor and Parris from their backgrounds and moral standards. Proctor is a married farmer who had an affair with a 17-year old house worker, Abigail. Parris is a minister of the church, and his...

Ridgeview High School Expository Reading and Writing The Crucible Bennett, Jessica. “The Flip Side of Internet Fame.” Newsweek. March 3, 2008. Hamilton, Anita. “Outsmart Your Haters.” Time. October 6, 2008. Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Penguin Group Inc: New York, 2003. “Witch Hunts, Pledges, and Blacklists.” www.borndigital.com/mccart.htm. Rationale: Witch hunts, blacklists, character, reputation, defamation, public and private identity, the dark side of human nature,...

Davion Mandeville Mrs. Hostetler English 11 8 November 2012 The Crucible: #3 In the book The Crucible, there were many displays of courage, weakness, and truth. Many characters showed these signs, but only a few stood out to me. I believe John Proctor showed the most courage. As of weakness, I think that I would have to say that both John and Elizabeth Proctor showed a lot of this. Finally for truth, I would give it to Danforth. One way John Proctor showed courage was by speaking up to...

The Sinful Three In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, the Salem Witch Trials were filled with the same sins that were also shown in modern-day McCarthyism. In comparison, McCarthyism was a post-WWII investigation of Communists in the United States Government that involved blatant lies given by Joseph McCarthy that can relate to the lies shown by the townspeople of Salem during the Witch Trials. Specifically, three of the townspeople showed their sins the most; Abigail Williams, John Proctor,...

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible explores tolerance through a variety of situations all based around the accusations, and the actual Salem witch trials. Tolerance is a result of different people’s experiences, such as conflicts with each other, or themselves, the actions of the characters, and the different themes that tie into the novel. Whether it is how “witches” are taking over Salem or how adultery is ruining people’s marriages, Miller makes sure tolerance is portrayed. The tolerance that the...

Maria Blanco The Crucible Essay Draft Fear and loathing can overpower all senses of reason. A doctor conducted that the children were suffering from the effects of witchcraft. Some people were actually innocent and they still hanged them because they thought that they were witches. Salem Reverend Parris attempted to capitalize on fear when he preached about the witches that abounded in Salem. Arthur Miller, in his drama “The Crucible”,illustrates fear through the actions and reactions...

Brenda Mburu Mr. Martin English III 27 February 2013 From Powerless to Powerful In the crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the Salem Witch Trial of 1692 was a open trial where anyone can come and make accusations. The accusers gained an abundant of power over the court and over the accused. Since the girls, Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Mary Warren, and Mercy Lewis started the accusations they went from having no power to being the most powerful characters. The witch trials empower...

The Salem Witch Trials were among some of the most horrendous, irrational, and imprudent, events of the 17th century. Not only were numerous people imprisoned, based on false testimonies and lack of judicial intelligence, but hung, or in one case, pressed to death. The claims of witchery caused calamity throughout the village, neighbors turning on one another; friends accusing each other just to salvage their own lives. In The Crucible, Puritan way of life revolves around the church. If you...

The Use of Imagery in the Crucible The Crucible is a compelling play about how jealousy takes over. Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible demonstrates through the use of imagery how far people will go to get what they want. Imagery is also used to show how jealousy can change people, and in The Crucible to add, Miller emphasizes the fact that once people get jealous it can destroy them. Miller lastly portrays how jealousy alters people’s personalities and lives. During the play Arthur...

Brian Witkowski English/Communications III 1/8/2015 Sparing the Innocent Throughout the Crucible, there were many brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for a greater cause. When being accused of witchcraft, many of them denied these accusations because they were not true causing them to be put to death. They all tried to bring light to the fact that they were innocent, with no avail. Therefore, it is admirable to sacrifice oneself and spare the innocent, rather than sacrifice others...

In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, the main protagonists are John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Hale. They had tolerated and however more struggled with the misunderstood references such as witchcraft that had effected their personal lives with dilemmas. Each character had exhibit a certain sin from the beginning and with their decisions made towards the end of the play it had expressed their true virtues. The play's tragic hero John Proctor was an outspoken and honest...

Discuss John and Elizabeth Proctor’s Marginalization of Abigail Mia Mo 2013010103 ENG4USJ Mr. Sheridan Columbia International College Tuesday April 8th, 2013 In the contemporary world, it might be common for men to have affairs with other women, but in the 1690s, America, it was unforgivable for men to do it and they would be punished. In The Crucible, John Proctor has an affair with Abigail, which is condemned in...

Anthony Rodriguez Mr. Milliken English Jun.17.12 THE CRUCIBLE Why does guilt hold from telling the truth? In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, in the early year of 1962 in the small Massachusetts village of Salem, many innocent people in the play were hanged during the Salem witch trials. Of course, there are many people that may be blamed. Many problems arise that deal with jealousy, hypocrisy, and hysteria. One may...

Peter Beagle once wrote that “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” This quote by Beagle describes one of the qualities of a hero, and it also describes the character John Proctor in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Joseph Campbell’s paradigm of a hero is also similar to what Beagle said, in that the classical hero needs some sort of tribulation. This is only one part of the paradigm that describes Proctor though....

The Crucible In the story The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, it explains a play that involves historical events like witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This drama is an example of the unjust events that happened, due to the terrible lies that some young girls made up, who were supposedly witchcraft. This was a hard situation for the entire town because of the accusation of witchcraft toward innocent people. In The Crucible, Miller shows us several examples of themes, some...

Cynthia M. Beltran-Islas Mr. Domingo English 11 3/8/1213 “The crucible synthesis essay” Arthur Miller in the novel, “The crucible”, analyze obliquely the relation between The Salem witch hunt with The McCarthyism. Miller supports his analogy by emphasizing the characteristics that relate the witch hunt with the McCarthyism. The author’s purpose is to express his philosophical assumptions about the misjudgment, chaos and hysteria, that is reappearing throw the history in different faces and...

The Crucible was written by a written by Arthur Miller. This book is about the Salem Witch trials in the 1600's. There was an emphasis on braking the Ten Commandments with in the characters of this book The Crucible. Three characters that broke the Ten Commandments that were emphasized in the book were Abigail William, Reverend Parris, and John Proctor. These were the people that broke some of the commandments that were main character in the story. John Proctor was a man who broke commandment....

Ryan McKeithan English III Prd. 1 10 – 17 – 12 “The Crucible” by Author Miller: Crucible [kroo-suh-buhl] noun: A severe, searching test or trial. Author Miller titled the play “The Crucible” because it has to do with witchcraft trails in Salem. Witchcraft [wich-kraft, krahft] noun: The art or practices of a witch; sorcery; magic. McCarthyism [muh-kahr-thee-iz-uhm] noun: The practice of making accusations of disloyalty; the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigating...

! Throughout history, it is evident that creating a perfect society is impossible. Two specific examples come from the United States, these include the little town of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts and the reign of McCarthyism in the 1940s to 1950s. During McCarthyism reign, fear of communism swept the nation. McCarthy blacklisted anyone and everyone, this meant they he believed he they were involved with communism. These accusations made McCarthy one of the most powerful men in the nation. One of...

The novel the Crucible, written by Arthur Miller portrays injustice in the form of the witch trials in Salem. The way the town is torn apart, the way people are wrongly accused due to the extent of Abigail’s power and imagination. Also how the society deals with justice, Prejudice of opinion and when the people tend to choose outcomes that suit them. The people choosing reputation over the truth allows injustice to thrive through Salem… During the Salem witch trials many were wrongly accused of...

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massachusetts. By the standards of our own time, if not of that, it was a minor event, a spasm of judicial violence that was concluded within a matter of months. The bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all, as a further indication that the convicted had not only forfeited participation in the community of man in this life, but in the community of saints in the next. Just...

Aruthur Miller wrote The Crucible (written in 1952) as an allegory of McCarthyism when the U.S. government black listed accused communist to the historical event of the Salem Witch Trials. Miller created the character John Proctor’s Creed, values, and revelations to go against the assumptions and morals of his society, which recreates how in Miller’s reality a person could be branded a communist if their believes and principles differed from society. Proctor’s sin’s/ action goes against the...

In the play "The Crucible" written by Arthur Miller, the author displays how easily people can make judgments based on their personal beliefs rather than rational and logical reasoning. Miller elucidates throughout the play that truth has no meaning when men believe only what they want to believe. A situation is created where there are factors capable of forcing characters into making assessments based on what they think is right while disregarding the truth. Three characters in Miller's play...

Journal Topics for The Crucible As you read the play over the next few days, choose any 3 of the following topics and respond to them in a google document or on paper. Each response must be at least 250 words. You must include references to the text and provide support for all of your claims. Please use your best writing- no grammatical/spelling/capitalization errors- divide ideas using paragraphs etc. Each journal entry is 20 pts. You may do one more extra credit. Again, we are working...

Guilty Until Proven Innocent "We the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder." This famous quote was made during the famous court case of O.J. Simpson vs. the State of California over the murder of two individuals. What made this case so famous was all the evidence the jury had that proved Simpson guilty, but was found not guilty in the end. The court, whether it be a single person or a jury, make mistakes daily. But...

In millers play the crucible full of themes such as romance, hysteria and tragedy we are drawn into the perplexing relationship between Elizabeth and John Proctor, A relationship that defines the main characters, as well as their inside thoughts and desires. We first get a true depth into the strained relationship of Proctor and his wife, when Proctor encounters Abigail, desperate young women who he once had feelings for and became unfaithful with. “John I am waitin’ for you every night. Abby,...

Literature Essay - The Crucible James Taylor 11K Topic 6: At the end of the play, Reverend hale insists that John Proctor”s desire to hang instead of admitting that he was consorting with the devil is an act of excessive pride or stubbornness. Proctor’s self-sacrifice is not more than a petulant act of excessive pride. John Proctor is the protagonist of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. He was persistent, honest, and full of integrity. At the end of the play Reverend Hale insists that...

The Crucible Inner strength is a good quality that a person should have. What is inner strength? Inner strength is the ability to stay true to oneself. In the crucible, many characters have a lot of inner strength. But one person shows their inner strength more than the others, that character is John Proctor. John shows inner strength when he confesses to adultery, and when he doesn't confess to witchcraft. To...

THE CRUCIBLE Have you ever been accused of something you didn’t do and have been put on trial for it? Well, in the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, many people were put on trial, and 20 were killed. The Crucible was based on a true story about the belief of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. And it all started with a lie from a group of girls. There were 3 big themes in the play: Religion, False accusations, and Witchcraft. The first theme is Religion. In the story, the accusers...

Topic 2 | Discuss the theme of pride in the play The CrucibleParagraph I (Introduction) * Definition of excessive pride. * Brief summary of the play. * Introduction to the main characters.Paragraph 2 (Body) * Reverend Hale, example of pride. Provide a quote, page number, and explanation. * Result of his pride. Provide another quote from the play, page number, and explanation. * Conclusion (was his pride justified?)Paragraph 3 (Body) * Elizabeth Proctor, example of...

Bailey Sperry Mrs. Florio English III 30 September 2012 A Hero in Salem “Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience,” by Thomas Merton. Merton did not just mean to put words down on a piece of paper; it has meaning to everyday people and everyday life. A hero is not always a person in a cape, but also a man who saves a kitten from a tree or...

Kathia Nunez Mrs. Burns Eng. 11 1 Jan. 2012 Appearance vs. Reality Appearance vs. Reality is a prominent theme in The Crucible as some people are carried and blinded by appearance while others actually look at the facts, John Proctor and Elizabeth are not carried away by lies while Abigail and the rest of her friends are ignorant and spread lies. The town of Salem, Massachusetts went through a yearlong period of witch trials. A group of girls led by Abigail the reverend’s niece...

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a historical fiction play about the famed Salem witch trials. Historical fiction? So it's both historical fact and fiction? Is it more fact or fiction? In my opinion this play, The Crucible, is more fiction than fact. This is only my opinion though, it is not a fact and it cannot be proven that the play is more fact than fiction or the other way around. In this paper I will discuss why it is my opinion that The Crucible is more fiction that fact. In my...

Salem of Fear The Crucible is a play that explores ideas such as conflict, the importance of reputation and the relationship between fear and power. Arthur Miller uses this dramatic setting, symbolism and conflict between characters to show his audience and readers the similarities between the Salem witch hunts and the persecution of communists in his own time. This essay will show that the messages in The Crucible such as the harm that false accusations can cause and the importance of...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." History is a "chronological record of events." These events, whether positive or tragic, often repeat themselves. The McCarthy Hearings that took place in the 1950's are a good example of this. The accusations of communism led to a nation-wide hysteria and fear of who was going to be named next. When this was over, the hope would be that nothing like it would ever happen again and nothing like it had ever happened before....

ABC NOTES C.) Quotes (10+)- -Danforth - "the pure in heart need no lawyers." -Proctor- "a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, i see his filthy face!" -Abigail- "oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. no, i cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it's god's work I do." -Danforth- "I am amazed to fin you in such uproar. I have only good report of you character." -Danforth- “I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people choked before my eyes by spirits; i have seen...

The Crucible: Who is to blame? In the play, The Crucible, who is to blame for the 1692 witchcraft trials of Salem, Massachusetts? Abigail Williams is to blame; she is a mean and vindictive person. She always wants her way, no matter who she hurts in the process. Throughout the play her accusations and lies cause many people pain and suffering, costing nineteen people their life’s. She led a group of twelve girls and made them lie to save herself from getting in trouble. Since Abigail would do...

Martin Russell Mrs. laycook AP Language and Composition, period 3 07 September 2012 Under Pressure People ridicule and accuse their peers based on word of mouth and whether a statement is true or not, man still believes in a slight way that it is possible. When one spreads a rumor for revenge, people’s lives are affected greatly and mass hysteria kicks in. Arthur Miller in his breathtaking play entitled The Crucible shows that in a conservatively religious society, paranoia can take over...

Avila 1 Pride in The Crucible Many people would never consider pride as to being a sin, however the Catholic Church considers pride to be a sin because pride is about "me", "myself" and "I", they only worry about themselves and no one else. Although people might not believe it, today's society is filled with pride; from being proud of your heritage to being proud of your sexuality, pride is all around. However, the Catholic Church believes that pride is the foremost among the seven deadly...

Circumstances cause adaptation. Drastic circumstances cause drastic adaptation. The Salem witch trials of 1692 were definitely drastic circumstances. Society's hysteria, greed, and vengeance led to accusations that changed many lives, even changed some of those lives to death. Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend John Hale, and John Proctor were three characters that were altered during Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Elizabeth Proctor is a kind, intelligent, almost joyless woman that has...

English Homework Sophia Cassan What role does sex, and sexual repression play in The Crucible? The Crucible is a play constructed on conflict, lies and deception, written by Arthur Miller in 1952. The key theme of this theatrical four-act drama is ‘Wheels within wheels’. Set in Salem, in the heart of puritan Massachusetts, in 1692, the plot follows a community of villagers plagued by accusations of witchcraft. Amidst the executions of their friends, the remaining villagers turn to religion,...

Narrative Essay" Act 1(Abigail Williams)- I asked Tituba to go into the woods with a bunch of the girls from our area, I asked her to cast spells, and we danced. I was hoping that Tituba could put a curse on John Proctors wife since I had an affair with him. I was hoping that they weren't gonna be together after all so that I could have John Proctor all to myself. It was all my idea but when it came down to telling the truth when I was questioned for witch craft I lied and said it was...

The Crucible Act Four Questions Short Response Answer the following questions based on your knowledge of the drama. Write a response on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Where does Tituba think that the Devil is going to take her? 2. Give one example of how Abigail shows her dishonesty in this act. 3. What effect do the trials have on Salem? Use three details from the drama to support your answer. 4. When first arrives at the Salem jail, Danforth complains, “There is a prodigious...

“How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” Says the character John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Probably the most powerful line the entire play, it is apparent that the idea of the importance of “names” is the central theme of this great classic. The author begins to develop this idea early in the play beginning with the conversation between Reverend Parris (a fearful reverend who instigates the witchcraft panic when he finds his daughter, Betty...

The Crucible is play written in 1952 by Arthur Miller that is based off the Salem witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts. More than 150 people were accused of witchcraft during this time period. Nineteen people were hung between 1692 and 1693, and one was pressed to death. The Crucible is known to be one of the hallmarks of American literature and has been produced consistently since the 19th century. It was first recognized as a standard piece of literature and was commonly known...

After studying Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, I have come to the conclusion that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and the Judges. Each of these people, in some way, caused harm to blameless people, and I will, in this essay explain what these people, knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches in Salem Village in 1692. Abigail Williams...

Alice Lee Mrs. Chacon English III H Period 6 18 September 2012 The Effect of Confession in The Crucible In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller shows that the several acts of confession lead to an outbreak of serious problems of the society in Salem. Miller’s ultimate message is that confessions can cause unwarranted chaos, as shown from Tituba and Abigail. Tituba’s confession to Hale scares people into believing witchcraft, and Abigail’s confession to being possessed by witchcraft...

interpretations of the word crucible as there is for the theme of Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. Closely related to the word "crucifixion", The Crucible is about a man put in a crucible situation, who is forced to choose between life and morality, just as Jesus Christ did. Miller interweaved these scenarios to form the main themes of the play – the problem of making the right moral choice and the necessity of sacrifice as a means of redemption. Both of these themes can be abridged to form one...

The Crucible The Crucible is a tale of what happens when paranoia, apprehension, and terror are introduce into the small town of Salem. Our group liked how the title relates to the book. We found it quite clever because a crucible is a small metal container which can withstand heat so that it may melt metals in it and purify them. As a group we felt a crucible was like the church because it purifies people. The novel is written in a play format, which as a group we felt made the novel more...

The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It was initially called "The Chronicles of Sarah Good". It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists.[1] Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956...

The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a drama about a small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid...

Tragic Heroes I. In 21st century American society people protect their own, love and also act in such an inspirational manner just as the behaviors, actions, and fallacies in both Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and William Bennett’s article “Aurora heroes”. A. In both the article and the play, men protect their own by sacrificing their own lives. B. Love is evident in everyday life, because it is an emotion. The men who died as...

The trials in The Crucible take place against the backdrop of a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their community is God’s work. However, there are plenty of simmering feuds and rivalries in the small town that have nothing to do with religion, and many Salem residents take advantage of the trials to express long-held grudges and exact revenge on their enemies. Abigail, the original source of the...

The Crucible: Act One 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? * The opening scene was held in the Salem in the Spring of year 1692 2. Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? * Parris sent for Reverend Hale to see what is going on with his sick daughter, Betty. 3. What do we learn about the events in the forest and Abigail Williams’ connections with the Proctor family? * Abigail is in love with John Proctor and drank some charm to...

September 27, 2001 English The Crucible Pride, a simple five letter word that has played an important role throughout the history of man kind. The word pride caused ancient Egyptians to make amazing monuments like pyramids and golden tombs, it caused the French to build a world known monument, the Eiffel tower, but has also taken the lives of many men. Wars, battles, crusades, murders, hate, cold-heartedness, and many more, are great examples of when men think too much of themselves and have...

Fear stimulates a plethora characters within the play. A few of the characters within the play whose judgments are influenced by fear are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Mary Warren. Fear is a major driving force for the characters. It forces the characters to act upon emotions rather than logical thinking. Franklin Delano Roosevelt the 32nd President of the United States said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” in his inauguration on March 4, 1933. John Proctor is a...