... with evil, possibly even home to the devil. It is the forest, on the towns unexplored outskirts, where the girls first become involved with thewitchcraft?, and this location may have had a part in people's disbelief that they might be doing anything but trafficking with the devil. At the time the play takes place, around the turn of the 18th Century, a fear is sweeping across the Christian world. For over half a ... hit Salem very badly, spiralling completely out of control and reaching truly horrific proportions. It is in this light that the play focuses on Salem, and the fictional eve...

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... with so terrible an understanding? Like Jesus, he is killed. (Spitz. 24-5) Piggy is the voice of reason. He is the outsider. He alone shows marks of intelligence; he can think; he has brains. When he wears his spectacles he can see. Those same spectacles not only shed light; they make possible the lighting of the fire which is meant to be seen. And when he is deprived ... of those spectacles, he loses his rationality too. He has a sense of what is required for society. Playing is absurd to Piggy. He refuses to enter this imaginary universe ... Jack approaches with his choir from the da...

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... go on with their doggy life..."(Lines 10-12) Essentially saying that even a sacrifice as powerful as the crucifixion of Jesus Christ loses meaning in light of time and cultural obsessions. We live our "doggy lives" getting caught up in all that is around us, wether it be money or power and no longer consider God in ... WH. Auden witnessed and submitted to on a daily basis; and just as the ploughman, and the children skating at the edge of the forest, he turned his back and fled for his life. In many ways, Auden is much like the "old masters" he writes about: he understands suffering, a...

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• Grade Level: High School