... 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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... that the guidelines given by Perkins were used inaccurately during the examination of Bridget Bishop and so led to the conviction of a person who was more than likely innocent. The main argument of Bridget Bishop being a witch was based on spectral evidence that should only have been submitted as a ... examination that were in fact nothing more than presumptions, but were used as main points. First, Bishop states that "I know nothing of [witchcraft]. I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is" (386). Her examiner, John Hathorne, responds "How can you know you are no witch and ...

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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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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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... taught and shaped by one's desire to gain power and control. Power has the ability to twist people into ugly and inhumane creatures. One person holding too much power is a scary reality, especially when they are influenced by strong emotions like greed or jealousy. And an even scarier ... unstable and dishonest community. Also, authoritative figures that abuse their power to take revenge on long-term enemies can lead to the persecution of innocent people. When people abuse their authoritative responsibilities for their own good, it results in the downfall of the community as a whole. When...

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... Elizabeth's respect. Danforth's postcard is written to Elizabeth Proctor, apologizing for doubting the Proctor's word. Danforth finally realizes that his accusations were incorrect and that he has killed hundreds of innocent people. The last act was a turning point for Danforth. Though he didn't admit he was wrong, I think you could see him start to question his own decisions as ... alone and not sure how to react, therefore she tries to keep in contact with her while struggling to find who she is and the confidence to be that person. Elizabeth Proctors postcard is significant because it...

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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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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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... 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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... order to eradicate or at least lessen the public paranoia, Twentieth Century American author Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a warning of what could happen to innocent individuals in the 1950s. It seems quite by chance that Miller visited Salem, Massachusetts in the spring 1952. Some 250 years before, Salem had been the ... . The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding ages of Common experiences in the fifties: the old friend of a Blacklisted person crossing the street to avoid being seen Talking to him ; the overnight conversions of former leftists in...

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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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... ; ." She put the fear of death in everyone who was in the woods that night, and made herself unlikely to be caught. With all these crimes evident, she still remains innocent, that is why she is a winner. Mary Warren is not as corrupt as Abigail, but she has still gotten away with her life. Mary made a poppet and Hale found it ... the spark that started the fire. If it were not for her the town wouldn't be in shambles. She started the witchcraft "revolution" and somehow got away uncharged. She acted innocent, and then all of a sudden she started shouting out names of supposed witches, whi...

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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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... 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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... honor! I have rung the doom of my good name--you will believe me Mr.Danforth. My wife is innocent except she knew a whore when she saw one." He is always defending his wife, and he makes sure that everybody knows she's a good person. He is also showing his weak side by saying that he is wrong and his poor wife is right ... court ,that he took sarcasm to a whole new level. He is also implying that he is just as innocent as Danforth, and it is absurd to believe the girls. He also has just as much potential to be guilty as the next person. He is only satiric when he doesn't like somebody o...

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... with the flu, or a horse of theirs died, the blame was automatically placed on witchery and the "witch" arrested. The scapegoat was not a particular person, anyone would do, it was more the symbolism that laying the blame on someone else rather than accepting it held that makes this so meaningful. People even ... It is at this pivotal point that America goes wrong. Society is so eager to do something about what's going on, that by just accusing an innocent person of the same faith as the guilty, they feel they've done their part. This is a complete falsity however, and not only does it...

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