... minister which would have increased Thomas Putnam's reputation greatly. It is therefore no shock when Putnam's daughter accuses Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft. Putnam's accusation is pure and evil vengeance. Miller also notes that each being accused by Thomas Putnam's offspring owned a desirable plot of land, showing that not only was Putnam vengeful, but greedy in his killings as well. The last important example found in "The Crucible" that illustrates vengeance as ... a motive for accusation occurs between the "possessed" girls and Mary Warren, a child once possessed but now ready to spe...

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... Arthur Miller wrote a novel called The Crucible. This book is set in 1962 and it tells the story of the infamous witch trials that took place in Salem,Massachusetts. Throughout this whole story we find that greed effected much of what happened in Salem, in fact greed caused the whole problem. From Abigail Williams's lust for John Proctor, a married man, to Thomas Putnam's greed for land to Judge ... after he was hung, because he was the only one with enough money to buy it(Miller 96). He and his ancestors also had a reputation of taking whatever land that they wanted if they could. This...

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... Salem, Massachusetts, with Reverend Samuel Parris, the petty, irritable and mostly unliked minister. He is worried about his daughter, Betty. The night before, his daughter and niece, Abigail, were caught dancing in the nude in the forest with some of the other town girls. Since this, Betty has slept in what seems like a trance. Thomas Putnam, a ruthless landowner, and his wife Ann, arrive with news ... Yet it also tended to decrease attention of the work as a serious drama. As some of the more heated political controversies of the 1950s have cooled down, The Crucible has been increasing...

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... Miller's representation of good and evil in his play the Crucible, paying particular attention to his characterisation. The Crucible's main purpose was to show the mass hysteria, which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. The Crucible concentrates on the fate of some of the key characters caught up in the persecution. It shows people under pressure and what were the issues and motivations involved. The play is an allegory of the communists trials in 1950s USA ... it." This shows that Abigail has shown some evidence in the past of violence; the girls would not be so scared otherwise....

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... plays a major role in The Crucible and is the main reason why the village of Salem dealt with the witchcraft incidents so badly. Throughout the trials of the people living in Salem no evidence was found to convict anyone of witchcraft. Instead the word of a group of young girls was taken as the truth because nobody dared question people who had seen and encountered the devil so the idea that they girls were ... repercussions. This meant that when Abigail Williams began the charade and started to lie for the first time that somebody was no longer afraid of the repercussions and considered ...

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