... marshal of Salem. Mercy Lewis One of the girls in Abigail's group. Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Intolerance The Crucible  is set in a theocratic society, in which the church and the state are one, and the religion is a strict, austere form of Protestantism known as Puritanism. Because of the theocratic nature of the society, moral laws and state laws ... , manages similarly to deflect blame from herself by accusing others. Accusations, Confessions, and Legal Proceedings The witch trials are central to t...

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... with tragedy, comedy, drama, or even can be a musical. The type play The Crucible is, is a tragedy. Crucible can be defined as a trial, or a situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces. In the beginning of the book a group of girls are caught by Reverend Parris dancing around a fire. Abigail one of the leader's of the group gets questioned by Reverend Parris about witchcraft, she ... Reverend Parris's black slave from Barbados, and also performs voodoo. The most important character in the Crucible is John Proctor. He has many...

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... 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 with what seems ... to be a decent life for Puritan times, Abigail is a spiteful, vengeful, evil, young lady. She not only lied about ... every whim. Although they knew they were doing something horribly wr...

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... . Although there are many weaknesses shown, the strongest is selfishness. This is strong because of the many examples that are found in the book. Selfishness is found in The Crucible to get land, love, and to preserve innocence. Selfishness is the reason for the witch trials starting, but selflessness is how it ends. One example of selfishness shown in The Crucible is Abigail's use of witchcraft to try to get ... Elizabeth killed, so as to satisfy her wanting of John. Her motivation to have Elisabeth killed is so she can have Elizabeth's husband, John Proctor, to herself. John and Abigai...

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... town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to hang. The people of the town once shunned her because they had heard rumors of her affair with John Proctor. Abigail now finds that she has influence over people, and she takes full advantage of it. In a sense I think The Crucible is a classic tragedy, John Proctor being the story's tragic hero. Honest and upright, Proctor is a good man ... , but has a secret. His lust for Abigail Williams led to their affair, and created Abigail's jealousy of his wife, Elizabeth. Once the trials begin, Proctor realizes that he can stop Abigail's ram...

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... will discuss the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is a depiction of the event, which occurred in Salem in 1692 also known as the "witch trails." I will give a brief summary of the play and discuss the differences of the work as it was portrayed as a written play, movie and on Broadway. The play was written in 1953 and story relates to the McCarthy trials. During the 1950's Senator Joseph McCarthy accused ... doesn't want to have anything to do with her anymore. These two scenes I feel are important because they show how much they loved each other. Proctor went to warn Ab...

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller should have been resolved in a different way. The characters in the play could have changed the whole outcome of the witch trials and could have saved a lot of peoples lives. Abigail, Reverend Parris, and the Judges could have all saved many lives throughout the story if they hadn't done what they did. The outcome of the story could have been changed drastically. One of the people that could ... culture because it is human nature to suspect and prove, not just suspect. The judges were not very good at their jobs and caused a lot of lives to be lost. The Crucible ...

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... . This cloud of despair in his life only seems to worsen with the circumstances of the trials and his wife being accused by the woman he commits adultery with. In The Crucible, John's greatest challenge is to overcome his personal despair by cleansing his soul of guilt and by also using the adultery to discredit Abigail's testimony. By Proctor revealing his deepest secret, he overcomes his internal ... be his servant. It seems as if he will never have to reveal what has happened with Abigail until the sudden outbreak of supposed witchery sweeps the town of Salem. John knows for sure that...

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... The Crucible shows the hysteria of the Salem witch Trials. The character Abigail Williams falsely accuses people of being witches in Salem, Massachusetts. Because of her dishonesty and wrong doings people die. She does not demonstrate loyalty to her friends or family. As a person I make decisions that are sensitive to other peoples feelings based on honesty, loyalty, and good judgment, where as Abigail Williams, a character in the Crucible ... is vindictive, manipulative, revengeful and makes wrong decisions that hurt other people. Abigail hurts others around her by being selfish and bla...

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The historical situation that the Crucible is about is, the witch trials of Salem. This story is in the form and a play and it depicts the hanging of many innocent people. Some of the people who are both fictional characters and real characters. A real character in this play is John Proctor, a fictional character in this play is Marshal Herrick. This story starts with Abigail Willliams and a bunch of other ... Abigail should burn in hell. Everybody took that as a sure sign of witch craft. Today over half the people in the world would be put into jail because they threatened another person or ...

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... , even in a time and society where such outspoken reason could lead to dire consequences. 5. When Miller introduces Proctor, he also foregrounds Proctor's internal conflict as a result of his affair with Abigail Williams. 6. Proctor is determined to purge himself of sin. Despite thinking "softly of her from time to time." Proctor sets "her firmly out of his path," and makes it clear ... to Abigail to put their affair "out of mind." 7. Proctor is known to have a "sharp and biting way with hypocrites," and as a result of his own hypocrisy, Proctor has "come to regard ... so, Proctor is fi...

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The Crucible The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. The entire community is in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts of their own. Miller uses three characters who ... will never speak her mind as shown when Proctor sends her home and she responds with " I'm just going home" (21). As the play continues and as she is influenced by Abigail, Mary begins to break this self induced mold and does what she wants. Mary Warren, along with many other girls gets caught up ... t...

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... than have his name be degraded. Giles and proctor both value their prided more than their lives. Another theme displayed is distorted justice, the rough idea of what right and wrong is. A good example of distorted justice is Abigail. She jest a young girl and was john proctors lover. She wants to get rid of Mrs. Proctor so she can take her place ... he does not want her any more she tells John-[she is] waiting' for [him] every night...she cannot sleep...hoping he'll come" (20). Abigail wants to take John proctor a married man as though it were no big deal not care about what the consequ...

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... his audience with a thought provoking view of the individual in relation to the rest of society." Discuss this judgement of "The Crucible." The play is set in the puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts in the spring of 1692. It starts after some of the girls from the village, had been caught dancing in the woods. But when Parris" daughter falls ill, that's when the rumours that witchcraft is involved start to ... to church isn"t going to make any difference whether we go to heaven or hell. But he also committed an act of adultery with Abigail Williams, which is a unholy act, although he d...

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... John's thirty three year old son from his first marriage. Eventually, all of the family was charged of witchcraft and hanged, only Elizabeth was spared because she was pregnant. The ages of many of the people in The Crucible were changed to be made more believable. Abigail William's age at the beginning of the play was boosted from an age of eleven to seventeen. John Proctor's age was ... sixty and Elizabeth's age was forty-one, a fact that was not mentioned in the play. At the beginning of the play, it is revealed that ... there was a wild dancing ritual in the woods led ... ...

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... judgements of witchcraft were wrong. Arthur Miller gives people some insight into the Salem witch trials in his play, The Crucible, which shows how peoples" poor judgement led to hysteria and tragedy in the community of Salem. It also shows how the people changed because of this witch scare that ran furiously through the town. Elizabeth Proctor is one of these people, who undergoes a major change ... society. So to get themselves out of a potential death sentence, they started accusing innocent people. They did it with such resolution that many of the people believed them and came to fe...

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... aspect of their lives according to this holy book; for them, the Bible was God's true law. (nd.edu) In The Crucible, during all the time the witch trials have lasted, the judge of the court based his final decision only upon the Bible. "The law, based upon the Bible [ ] forbid the practice of witchcraft, and described death as the penalty thereof. "(95) The judge thought this way: due to their religious beliefs ... each other, the only person they could turn to was the church, and that's exactly what the clergy wanted. As the story unfolds, the main purpose of the population was to get ...

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... events in the world. The Red Scare unquestionably parallels the events that happened during the witch trials in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. The Salem witch trials and the Red Scare were both the product of fear, hysteria, suspicion and false accusations. These events in American history have countless similarities, that led to the persecution of many innocent individuals. False accusations in The Crucible led to the deaths of many innocent people. Abigail Willams, motivated ... by vengeance, falsely accused many innocent people, including Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of the man she ha...

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In the book The Crucible there is a struggle within to have one have a sense of belonging to society. They want to be loved by that society no matter how much they may seem that they ... don't belong. But they do want to show that to everyone, everyone that may not think that. John Proctor is a good example of a struggle to find a place in society. He's the ... wasn't for her falling in love with John then he wouldn't be put on trial for anything. Abigail got him involved with the witch trials because John wanted to go back to his wife and he didn't want Abigail in his life at all. After Abi...

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... events in the world. The Red Scare unquestionably parallels the events that happened during the witch trials in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. The Salem witch trials and the Red Scare were both the product of fear, hysteria, suspicion and false accusations. These events in American history have countless similarities, that led to the persecution of many innocent individuals. False accusations in The Crucible led to the deaths of many innocent people. Abigail Willams, motivated ... by vengeance, falsely accused many innocent people, including Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of the man she ha...

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... Miller' play, "The Crucible," characters John Proctor and John Hale exemplify the quote written by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just." John Proctor, who immediately discovers the girls' accusations in the witch trials to be false, attempts to speak only the truth in ... Salem. Because of their desire to have justice in these times of corruption, Proctor and Hale have the strength to speak out against the school of thought of Salem. As soon as Proctor recognizes the truth...

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... position on something they have been defending all along. However, most of the time, whenever this occurs, it is too late to change anyone else's mind. In The Crucible, Reverend Hale discovers that Abigail is lying. Unfortunately, it is to late to convince anyone about his findings. To ask for assistance in the witch-hunt, Reverend Paris calls Reverend Hale to Salem. Hale eagerly accepts ... as a very weak man. However, Hale does try to fix what he has done wrong in the only way he can, showing that Hale is intrinsically a good man. Nevertheless, Hale could never be a heroic character b...

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... faces can represent any of them because all of them are put under pressure because of the incidences that are forced upon each and every one of the townspeople. The people that stick out to me and that I have painted upon the canvas are of Judge Danforth, Abigail, Tituba, Reverend Hale, John Proctor, and Betty Parris. Danforth showed sternness and arrogance. He knows nothing of ... things he did not want to believe. The face that best represents him is one of absurdity. Abigail is one crazy girl. She once served the Proctor's but as Elizabeth, John Proctor's wife, found out about John a...

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... of metal used to heat things to high temperatures or a severe searching test or trial. This definition applies to the play in that the society is a theocratic society. The witch trials eliminated undesirable persons from the society just as a crucible eliminates unwanted metals from the mixture. In the Crucible there are many characters that undergo changes and some that do not. Some characters that undergo changes are Reverend ... is not worth giving even if it means confessing to something that you have not done. The next character that has changed in the course of the play is John Pr...

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... Puritans together. Puritans were known for their strict laws and code of ethics that prohibited any type of act that took away from God. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play that uses both truth and fiction to illustrate the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Chaos and hysteria consumed Salem for months while innocent people were getting convicted and sentenced to death. Reasons such ... a religious metaphor. Although being materialistic and envious was nowhere near the characteristic of a Puritan, jealousy was on of the main reasons the witch trials lasted for so long. There was always ...

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