... curiosity, tension, confusion, fear, hatred and suspense. Some examples of these are at the start of the scene when there are voices that can be heard "through the partition wall", people want to know more and are curious to find out what they are saying so they listen intensely. When Giles Cory ... proper place - where my beasts are bedded" this creates hysteria. All the arguments have two opposing sides. Abigail says "why do you come, yellow bird?" And John Proctor says, "Where's a bird? I see no bird!" Abigail screams "My face? My face?" This makes the atmosphere terrifying and dramati...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Sir Charles Gradison. The book "gave the woman of innocense the sheltered environment necessary ....realization of her full potential" (pg 12). Abigail's father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather close to him starting a wedding. This now made her name Abigail Adams. Their wedding was held on ... reaching his highest potential. That would be selfish and very unexpected from a person during that time. During their long periods of separation, Abigail and John kept in close contact with a steady flow letters. Beginning in her teens and throughout most of her life, Abigail...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of Joe McCarthy. Miller himself was dragged into the spot light by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was put in the exact same place were John Proctor had been in "The Crucible". Miller was asked to give a list of names of people who he had seen at a communist meeting ten years ... of power when the whole town of Salem listened to their words and believed each and every accusation. After all, children were to be seen and not heard in Puritan society, and the newfound attention was probably overwhelming. McCarthy was looking for a way to get into power and suddenly stumbled ...

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... not really deserve. In The Crucible, it is very hard to find a strictly "good" Puritan. One person that I find to actually be considered good is Reverend John Hale. He was a man of the church and came to Salem to help the people. When people were being accused of witchcraft, he tried to help them ... while sticking to his Puritan values and beliefs. He did not lie to the people or to himself. He listened to the people, heard their stories, and tried not to judge them. Also he was a reverend which is a really righteous Puritan quality. Another person that could also be considered ... one...

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... from a conglomerate of primary accounts, and based on reality. The play begins with a flustered Reverend Parris praying for Betty, his daughter, who is in a state of comatose. Earlier, Parris had heard a commotion in the forest and discovered his niece, Abigail, and her friends: Betty, Mary Warren, and Mercy Lewis, and Tituba, his Caribbean slave, swaying and dancing in the forest to ... -body Mrs. Putnam is convinced the devil is active in Salem, and she forces the notion upon Hale at every chance she can. On the other hand, Salem's resident logician, John Proctor, is irked by the inani...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School