... their lives. Others grow suspicious and try to find an explanation on how honest these girls, or "victims-, are in accusing them otherwise innocent people of witchcraft, if witchcraft is even the cause of the girls' hysteria. Arthur Miller writes the play to demonstrate that human nature is ... to save his wife, as well as to protect other innocent people from being accused and sentenced to death. The story shows that frustration can not only cause a person to deny responsibility for an action, but also that it can cause a person to realize his errors and take responsibility to redeem hi...

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... play, the society of Salem underestimates the degree to which people can lie, and conversely can be honest, which brings about the unnecessary deaths of innocent people; in contemporary America society overlooks the desire for self-reliance, and people abuse honesty and twist it to revert to humanity's nature of ... Elizabeth is married to John Proctor, whom Abigail is in love with. These lies in effect sentence innocent people to their deaths. Although in other cases the reasons for lying may vary from person to person, the fact that people lie to protect their self interests is a trait...

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... play, the society of Salem underestimates the degree to which people can lie, and conversely can be honest, which brings about the unnecessary deaths of innocent people; in contemporary America society overlooks the desire for self-reliance, and people abuse honesty and twist it to revert to humanity's nature of ... Elizabeth is married to John Proctor, whom Abigail is in love with. These lies in effect sentence innocent people to their deaths. Although in other cases the reasons for lying may vary from person to person, the fact that people lie to protect their self interests is a trait...

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... play we are shown that people will do dangerous and unethical things, I am going to write about who I thought was responsible for the prosecution of innocent people. Through this play we are shown that people do dangerous and unexpected things when they follow a crowd. I have come to reason that the three ... people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Abagail Williams, Ruth, Thomas Putnam and Reverend Parris. Each of these people in some way caused harm to blameless people, and I will ... explain what these people knowingly or unknowingly...

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... evidence, they were being hurt simply because somebody did not like their personal beliefs. These two events were similar because innocent people were being accused, there was little evidence, and people stood up for what they believed in. In the Salem Witch Trials and in ... were not to overthrow the government. The Conservative's just did not want the competition against the Communists. Most of these people who were accused were innocent, and should have been left alone. Likewise, there was no evidence to prove if any of the people convicted were actually guilty. During the Salem ... ot...

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... doing witch craft. She said these things about the people she didn't like. The people were people were charged and put to death. They were all innocent. The judge just believed in what she said. She acted like the people were witches buy they were not. Abigail also committed adultery with John Proctor while ... have an idol". Reverend Parris's idol was money. He cared about money more then everything else. He would convict people even though he knew they were innocent to get their land to make money off their land. Another commandment he broke was "you shall not lie", he lied about Abiga...

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... doing witch craft. She said these things about the people she didn't like. The people were people were charged and put to death. They were all innocent. The judge just believed in what she said. She acted like the people were witches buy they were not. Abigail also committed adultery with John Proctor while ... have an idol". Reverend Parris's idol was money. He cared about money more then everything else. He would convict people even though he knew they were innocent to get their land to make money off their land. Another commandment he broke was "you shall not lie", he lied about Abiga...

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... Salem into accusations of the women of the town committing witchcraft? Because of Abigail as well as her friends, many innocent women in the town of Salem were hung. Despite time settings, there is much similarty between these two desired characters. Both caused deaths of many ... innocent people just because they had some personal revenge that they had to take upon a certain person. Madame Defarge taking lives during the Revolution, and Abigail taking lives of women during the Salem witch ... Both of these characters also want revenge on a certain person for a particular purpose. They ...

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... characters. Through the play John Proctor has to overcome great emotional and moral hurdles and as a result his character develops and he becomes a totally different person. In the beginning of the play John was an average man who was well respected in the community and known for his honesty. It is said ... with in the future. John states the uniqueness of the accusers being innocent. He questions the fact that whoever accuses another person is completely innocent. His past with Abigail gives him the right to say this because he knows the type of person Abigail is. Abigail herself confes...

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... is "a vessel in which metal is heated to a high temperature and melted for the purposes of casting". It can also be referred to a situation in which a person has to make a decision that can be critical to his morals and principles. There are many interpretations of the word crucible as there is for the theme of Arthur ... be charged with witchcraft because she does not want to get hanged. So, as Abigail and the girls who were caught dancing in the forest charge several innocent people for witchery, Abigail saw it as an opening to rekindle the love between her and John Proctor by accusing...

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Monsters vs. Crucible "The Crucible" and "Monsters are Due on Maple Street" are two stories about a neighborhood's residents gone crazy. When one person mentions a possibility the whole town takes it out of proportion and causes terrible things to happen and the right wrongfully-accused. In the two stories, had a few similarities. There weren't ... residents accusing each other. Towards the end of the story, the town's people began to go crazy. They would accuse one after another. They had no idea who the guilty person was; they just needed someone to put the blame on. Also, in the two stori...

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... much she love him. She wants John to understand her love for him. Abigail is willing to do anything to get John Proctor to lover her. She even causes many innocent lives to die. She kept on trying to get John to love her. "John I am waitn" for you every night"(22). She would not give up until she ... or she is willing to do anything to get that person to love them back. Another example is she is an evil young woman. The night she met John in prison, he asks her to drop all the charges she is charging on the innocent people of Salem. " bless the day he hangs and lets me sleep in peace aga...

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... . Right before the characters are hanged, they recite the Lord's Prayer in unison. This confirms that the "witches" are innocent because the Puritans believed that a person who associated with the devil would not have been able to recite scripture. The pitiless prosecutor, ignoring the character's noble last words hangs John Proctor during the Lord's Prayer. The ... lechery in the beginning, he could have exposed Abigail before he or his wife were accused. Both fear and pity are further achieved in the new ending; pity for the innocent witches and fear of the occurrence of another hyste...

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... a small favor though may it be served to you as in something small like someone accusing you of a matter when you have done nothing wrong and the person accusing you being the culprit and receiving the punishment. "The Green Mile", a movie set around the mid 1900's about a black man (John Coffee) sent to ... the movie John is portrayed as a "gentle giant" kind of guy. He becomes friends with one of the guards, who start to believe John is innocent. Towards the end of the movie John Coffee shows the guard what really happened on the day he found the two murdered girls through some phenom...

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At the root of every conflict there seems to be at least one person who initiates the entire situation. In The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, many problems arise, some as serious as life or death. Many innocent people in The Crucible were hanged. Of course there are many people that may ... be to blame for the witch trials. However The Crucible leads the reader to believe that the majority of the guilt could be found in Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and John Proctor. Although she is a smart, charismatic person ... truth she could not for fear of her own life being taken. During court one...

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... are what make the witch trials possible. The characters in the play display the themes pride, distorted justice, and guilt. Pride, the praise and self-respect a person has for one' self, causes people to do irrational things. Giles Corey who has pride in his family is sentenced to be pressed to death until he ... valid he "cannot pardon [them] when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just "(124). He won't stop the trials and imprisoning innocent people because he did it before and he does not want to look like incompetent. Both Abigail and Danforth have a distorted se...

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... than herself, "she comes to me every night to go and drink blood." (41) She is also selfish because she wanted John Proctor all to herself, no matter how many innocent people's lives she would ruin. Abigail didn't even realize who she was actually hurting. She destroyed John Proctor's family, reputation and life. The townspeople of Salem once shunned Abigail for ... accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft it is mainly out of jealousy and resentment that Elizabeth is John Proctor's wife and not her. She enjoys having the power to ruin an innocent person's life, "oh, I marvel how such a s...

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... one he was an overconfident witch hunter blinded by his faith in "books weighted in authority" that he is unable to speak out for the innocent. By the time the guilt out weighs his pride it is already to late to stop court for they have already executed some of the condemned ... Abby, he denies it to his wife. It is also revealed that he rarely attends church. When the trials start and people whom he knows are innocent are being tried he dose nothing. He doesn't even act until his wife is taken from their own home on suspicion of witchcraft. John then ... him that the idea of witchcraft ...

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... of others and himself. As he conducts his business in Salemn trying to solve who is behind witchcraft he begins to think that some of the accused are innocent. He also begins to question these accusations of the girls. The girls accuse Elizabeth Proctor, who has never lied once, of witchcraft. Hale realizes that this ... John Proctor in saying the same, but he is still not sure. In a conversation between the two men Hale tells proctor that "I cannot judge her guilty or innocent- I know not. Only this consider: the world goes mad, and it profit nothing you should lay the cause to the ven...

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... play, one can see the signs of weakness that John displays whenever he is speaking to Abby. However, after she continues to accuse innocent people of being witches, he quickly realizes what a horrible and truly disturbed person she has become. The reader can see how easily Proctor is able to resist her charms, for he knows what a pathetic and evil ... person she is. "If you do not free my wife tomorrow, I am set and bound to ruin you, Abby" (151). It is evident that John has risen above ... true test occurs at the end of the play when he must decide whether or not he should confess to a...

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... motivation in the beginning. Abigail was the teen-aged niece of Parris, who first suspected witchcraft upon the girls. Once Abigail had been suspected, she would do anything to seem innocent and get the blame off her. She would tell lies, and most of all, blame others for the witchcraft. "I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil!" "I saw Goody Booth with the ... willing to root out all evil and witches and thought the case was getting out of control. He just wanted it to all be over with and not get any innocent in trouble or killed. It is obvious the crucible experience had changed the chara...

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... with the unreasonable and highly emotional element of the town. Atticus is one of the few people of the town who understands the individual worth of a person, regardless of the color of his skin. Thus, when Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of beating and raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman ... a minimum, this made him and his children highly unpopular; and at one point, this even placed him and his family in mortal danger. Naturally, his innocent young daughter, Scout, questions why Atticus is willing to defend Tom to the objections of the white folks in their community. Atticus s...

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... are abundant and defends Proctor when he challenges Abigail. Hale defends Proctor to a great degree out of guilt, for he fears that he may have caused the execution of innocent persons. The character of John Hale transforms throughout the play, developing from a witch-hunter to a broken man who loses all of his beliefs in the judicial system. ... evil of the witch trials, he responses to the trials by surrendering instead of defiance. He insists that survival is the highest good, even if it means that a person has to lie to save their life "something that the truly heroic characters can ...

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... neighbors and get their land. He allowed his greed to rule his mind and other decisions during this tragic time in the history of Salem. Another person who was affected by greed during this time was Reverend Parris. He felt that he was underpaid for his services. At one time he said to Giles ... that Abigail's greed was the most destructive to the outcome of this story. She single-handedly destroyed most of the people of this town's reputations. If a person had something that she wanted, she accused them and got exactly what she wanted. At times, she used her acting talents to make it se...

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... villain of the play, more so than Parris or Danforth: she tells lies, manipulates her friends and the entire town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to their deaths. Throughout the hysteria, Abigail's motivations never seem more complex than simple jealousy and a desire to have revenge on Elizabeth ... it is associated with satanic activity. This dichotomy functions as the underlying logic behind the witch trials. As Danforth says in Act III, "a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it." The witch trials are the ultimate expression of intolerance (and...

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