... world today deals with all emotions that can consume the human body. A few are love, hate, happiness, fear and suspicion. In Arthur Millers >The Crucible=, Miller clearly feels that fear and suspicion lead to a mass hysteria that causes innocent deaths. Today we have a highly sophisticated judicial system and people aren=t being killed innocently like they were in the 1600=s. A climate of fear had settled over ... . None other.@(p1230). So if someone says you are a witch, you=re a witch and the court doesn=t need any proof. Testimonies were almost regarded as a law. No one ever questione...

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There are many similar issues and ideas explored in the novel, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan. In the respect that they are founded upon real life events, parallels in issues, such as abuse of power and authority, social injustice and human nature, can be drawn. These issues are naturally portrayed differently. In The Crucible, Miller uses characterization, dialogue and stage directions whereas in ... In the Name of the Father, Sheridan has used various film ... ...

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... traits and qualities that we cannot ignore. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible several examples of these qualities are shown, and misunderstood by the characters. In the 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 lying, resulting in entrapment in their own lie. The society of Salem is unaware of the degree to which...

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The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a story that explains a down side to human nature. This shows how human nature can be cruel to it's own kind. In such a way that killing of it's own species begins to take place. The Crucible takes place in a little town called Salem where not too much happens besides a few disagreements between neighbors. The horrible, unexpected events that take place show how the people ... my opinion this story The Crucible portrays many different themes in which are all shown threw the actions of the Salem citizens whether it many be the accusers or the citizens i...

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... traits and qualities that we cannot ignore. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible several examples of these qualities are shown, and misunderstood by the characters. In the 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 lying, resulting in entrapment in their own lie. The society of Salem is unaware of the degree to which...

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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 have changed ... this was all "pretense" or pretend. Abigail did not have to make it as though Mary Warren was the one possessed by the devil by fainting and becoming very co...

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