By creating this overriding evil in the play, Miller positions the audience to take sides in this most basic of conflicts: good vs. evil. ... The characters themselves also help to make The Crucible the timeless play it is. ... Another thing The Crucible accomplishes to be a timeless play is its moral relevance to any society. ... Miller originally wrote The Crucible as an allegory about the 1950s American fear of Communism. ... The issues raised and the characters portrayed in The Crucible are what make the play so timeless. ...

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As theatre developed, undefined rules came into practice, and the process through which a playwright produced a play as well as the distinguishing traits characteristic of a successful play became in-depth and understood by all involved parties. ... Each actor will be required to perform a variety of characters throughout the play and thus wear multiple masks due to the Greek rule that allows only three actors to have speaking parts in any one play. ... Seneca wrote "closet dramas- that were intended to be read and not performed. ... In addition, Seneca wrote with more graphical violence a...

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As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. ... During her career, Aphra wrote and staged approximately nineteen plays [ CITATION Wil l 1033 ]. ... The play speaks out against the unequal treatment of women during the Restoration. ... The play opens with three female characters whose stories dominate the play throughout, each striving to break from their prescribed outcomes. ... While Behn was writing this play, actresses were beginning to a...

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During the Bavarian revolutionary turmoil of 1918, Brecht wrote his first play, BAAL, which was produced in 1923. The play celebrated life and sexuality and was a great success. ... In the 1930's Brecht's books and plays were banned in Germany, performances were interrupted by the police or summarily forbidden. ... Between the years 1938 and 1945 Brecht wrote his four major plays, two of them being, THE LONG LIFE OF GALILEO and MOTHER COURAGE. ... The audience must be reminded that it is watching a play, and that the theatre is only a theatre and not the world itself. ...

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The play also demonstrates how they survive, despite these humiliating conditions. ... The mateship between the women in the play changes the way we perceive the world through the use of distinctively visual techniques. ... In the author's note Misto describes why he wrote the play "I didn't have the power to build a memorial so I wrote a play instead". Misto's purpose in writing the play is to pay tribute to the women who survived or died in the POW camps in WWII. ... " "Music 'when you're smiling' plays following this....

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Sylvia Plath wrote many poems based on modernist and surrealist paintings in her short career as a writer. Some of these she wrote to describe the visual beauty of the painting in words, while others were almost entirely unrelated to the paintings they were supposed to be based on. ... The female snake charmer who is the focus of "The Snake Charmer " appears in the background of "The Dream, " where she is once again playing a pipe of some kind. ... (Tate Gallery) Sylvia Plath's poem, "Snakecharmer " bears little resemblance to Henri Rousseau's painting of the same title; instead, it...

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The poet Peter Viereck wrote an essay in 1939 entitled "Hitler and Richard Wagner- in which he argues that "this warped genius- [Wagner] was "perhaps the most important single fountainhead of Nazi ideology-'#. ... Stein gave lectures on Wagner as a thinker and philosopher and wrote the essay Die Darstellung der Natur in den Werken Richard Wagners (The depiction of nature in the work of Richard Wagner). Stein saw the Germans as idealists' and the cause of German idealist tradition as important as Wagnerism itself, he considered, and wrote about, the Jews to be incapable of spiritu...

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The poet Peter Viereck wrote an essay in 1939 entitled "Hitler and Richard Wagner- in which he argues that "this warped genius- [Wagner] was "perhaps the most important single fountainhead of Nazi ideology-'#. ... Stein gave lectures on Wagner as a thinker and philosopher and wrote the essay Die Darstellung der Natur in den Werken Richard Wagners (The depiction of nature in the work of Richard Wagner). Stein saw the Germans as idealists' and the cause of German idealist tradition as important as Wagnerism itself, he considered, and wrote about, the Jews to be incapable of spiritu...

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Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible, a play depicting the tragic events that occurred in Salem, was "profoundly, angrily concerned with the immediate issues of our society." ... (Miller, "Why I Wrote" 160) Also, when observing the discrimination that has occurred as a result of the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, a distinct parallel can be seen between the current situation, the period of McCarthyism, and the Salem Witch Trials. ... Said best by Judith Cerjak, "For every ill in Salem, witchcraft is the scapegoat." (56) One of the main accusers in the play is a young teenage gi...

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Though many say that Engels was just a sidekick to Marx because he was not credited as much as Karl Marx for his contributions to the literary works they wrote together, Engels continued writing without Marx after Marx's death. ... Hess is the man accredited with bringing Engels to England to function again in business (in the Engels family business) because according to Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 6, page 122, it was Hess who stressed to Engels, "The role that England, with its advanced industry, burgeoning proletariat, and portents of class conflict, was destined to play in future up...

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"Money is pouring in" from investors even though shale gas is "inherently unprofitable," an analyst from PNC Wealth Management, an investment company, wrote to a contractor in an email. ... An analyst from IHS Drilling Data, an energy research company, wrote in an email, "The word in the world of independents is that the shale plays are just giant Ponzi schemes and the economics just do not work" (Urbina). ...

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By 1887, Sixty-five editions of Shakespeare's works were published and over eighty school editions of individual plays have been published. ... Leading factor National identity caused the start of factor printing causing his plays to spread nationally. ... While almost half of Shakespeare's plays had previously appeared in the form of affordable quartos, such as a pamphlet with smaller font and cheaper format, the First Folio contained eighteen of Shakespeare's plays that have not been printed before his death. ... He knew what the audience would like and dislike and how to pres...

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Conscious of their special role as gods ' 'chosen people,'' the Jews wrote history as a chronicle of their continuing and evolving relationship with the creator (HP3). ... Arguably the first scientific philosophy of history-which is characterized by an attempt to be non-biased, testimony-based, and comprehensive was produced by the father of history, Herodotus (c. 484-425 BCE) Herodotus "the father of history," wrote history based on observations and thoroughly examining records. ... About a generation after Herodotus, Thucydides wrote an account of the Pelopon...

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All of these men, including Chamberlain, who was a Lieutenant Colonel for the North, played important roles in early Confederate victories such as, the Battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. ... In defense of his view, McCarthy wrote, "None of this is to say that [Ronald] Maxwell has made a one-sided film [it] has to emphasize one side more strongly than the other just to achieve balance" (Gods and Generals). ... In defense of the film, and its lesser emphasis on southern slavery, McCarthy wrote, "This is a failing, but a minor one, and perhaps one that cann...

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The Declaration also plays a significant role in our world today and in recent history. ... The use of parallelism gives the document an emotional tempo that the reader plays through their head while they are reading. ... Jefferson knew citizens of foreign countries would read the Declaration, so he wrote it as clear as possible with the intention that people who were not American would read it. Jefferson wanted as many good individuals as possible to know why they were separating from Britain, which is why he wrote "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should de...

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Douglass was played significant role in the civil war by convincing Lincoln that the main focus of the war should be the abolishment of slavery and influenced a large amount of blacks to fight for the Union. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to dev...

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And in Classical music today, endlessly repeated eighth or sixteenth- notes are often played just like they were simple repeated or sixteenth "notes and not in force repeated notes demanding tension and excitement. ... In the late Romanticism music, musicians only played what was written down yet in Mozart's symphony where some basic things were not written down because musicians knew them, only a meaningless stammering will result. ...

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Bach wrote six Brandenberg concertos between 1711 and 1720 and these concertos were dedicated to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg. ... The harpsichord furthermore had never been made the soloist in a concerto Bach wrote and arranged concertos not only for one harpsichord but also for two, three and four with accompanying instruments'. ... Fuller-Maitland suggested that Bach must have played the keyboard solo part. He says: 'Bach must have played the harpsichord himself in this piece. ... Bach's writing that Bach liked to play the viola in the orchestra but in this work...

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Ida B Wells, a southern born journalist, wrote "A Red Record" to inform her Northern readers about southern lynching in a way that would inspire them take action. ... Her neutral strategy played to her advantage because neutrality does not warrant as much conflict as a more bashful article would. ... Wells wrote this article in 1894, and at this point there was lynching going on all over the country. ... Washington played on a paternal attitude that white southerners had toward black people; when he said the south is the best place for black people to enter the economy. ... Secondl...

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Examining both narratives reveals differences in the purpose of the narratives, the similar and contrasting experiences and reactions of the two captives, how religion played a role in both experiences and the elements of literature used in the two famous works. ... Olaudah Equiano wrote to decry the evils of slavery. ... On the other hand, like most puritans of her time, Mary Rowlandson wrote to discover God's purpose in her life. ... In both Equiano and Rowlandson experiences; religion played a significant role in both accounts of their captivity. ... Both stories played a role in in...

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The use of the witch idea played upon the fears of people at that time as some individuals still suspected those who worked in the field of alchemy. Shelley also refers to "Cornelius Agrippa" throughout the book who himself wrote many volumes on the philosophy of the occult. ... While Frankenstein is creating the monster, he is effectively playing God, but does he have the right? ... As many people were trying to make this gloomy discovery, Shelley played upon this and used a character that eventually does go on to create "life from dead matter". ... William is playing hide and seek when...

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These two concluding lines of Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew", summarize each side of the question we are left to answer as the play closes; whether or not Petruchio has succeeded in taming Katharina. ... Critic Ruth Nevo wrote, "The man she has married has humor and high spirits, intuition, patience, self-command, and masterful intelligence; and there is more than merely a homily for Elizabethan wives in her famous speech: She wins her husband's wager but the speech bespeaks a generosity of spirit beyond the call of two hundred crowns "(Nevo, Shakespeare for Students, ...

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Although "Hamlet" is classified as a revenge play, it is a widely acknowledged fact that in this work Shakespeare consciously challenges the traditional revenge genre unlike any other play before it. The theme of revenge in plays has always been a popular one, and the basic structure and components possessed by plays of this genre had been well established by the time Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet." It is obvious through previous revenge themed plays such as "Titus Andronic" that Shakespeare was more than capable of producing a play that adhered to these expected genre conventions, and so one can ...

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If this is true, then perhaps a fallacy is also true in which a person who plays a flight simulator is a pilot, or even a person who plays a professional sports game is a professional athlete. ... (Brown 1)" An example of this would be a statement that safety expert Sedgrid Lewis wrote last November, stating that, "The knockout game aka The One Hitter Quitter is the deadly game that African American teenagers are playing across the nation It is the true life version of the popular video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA).... Playing the games can cause in the short term, hostile urges and mildly agg...

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("scrap paper ") section of the novel, Kreisler encounters Meister Abraham and speaks about the Furstin's birthday where Meister Abraham tells Kreisler about all the sorcery and magic tricks played at the festival. ... He not only wrote contrasting themes within a movement, but wrote it in a way that the movements in the text of the whole song cycle contrast each other as well. ... This idea of Romantic fragments has a direct correlation with Schumann's work as he wrote countless number of romantic fragments in his music as well. ...

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