The Crucible illustrates that people's private motivations have major consequences that are far beyond that person's control. These people were the main cause of hysteria in Salem. Three characters that contributed to this were Abigail, reverend Hale, and reverend Parris.
Abigail's private motivation was to have John Proctor all to herself. This motivation caused chaos in Salem because this gave Abigail a good reason to say that more people were witches. The real chaos started in this situation when Abigail accused Elizabeth Proctor, John proctors wife, of witchcraft. She did this because this was the only thing or person standing between her being with John. In the end though John ended up being hanged and Elizabeth lived and that was a bit ironic.
Reverend Hale had a private motivation that was to find the witches in Salem. This causes some discontent in the town because the fact is that there were no witches and people were being accused and hanged when they really weren't witches. Hale wanted to believe that there were witches because people were being killed yet he began to notice that people were confessing to witch craft just so they could live. In the end he admitted he was wrong and urged people to confess so they did not get hanged but people did not want to admit to it because they did not want to ruin their names. Hale saying that there were witches had consequences and those consequences were many people hanged and being innocent.
Now Reverend Parris had a totally different motivation that causes problems in the town. His motivations were greed. All that Parris cared about was money and house deeds. The consequences were that again innocent people were being hanged because he didn't care much about the trials and all he wanted to do is sign for people to hang because he thought it would give him more land and money. The people in the town did not like this at all and were putting threats in his life and he was kicked out of the church and left the town to never be seen again.
Motives In reading about the motive of hunger I have learned that our body has a set weight and a set number of fat cells. As people gain weight they stop eating, lowering the intake of food into their bodies. Grilo & Pogue-Geile (1991) and Keesey (1980) stated that in: The "set-point theory", ...
Analysis of Motives "What is involved when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it?" Kenneth Burke in, "Grammar of Motives" offers us a way to analyze different people or events and why they did it. ... We can use this to analyze motives behind certain events. ... Johnson 6 As you can see the pentad is an efficient way to analyze pieces and kind of sort out the motive and who the blame is put on. To finalize this paper I leave you with this our placement of motives changes how we perceive an event. ...
Murderous Motives Observing artist's creative differences about the same story can be an interesting experience. ... The two monsters have different motives for killing. ... Each monster kills but they have different motives for killing. ... The monster has rational motives for causing emotional pain to Victor Frankenstein. ... The motives for the monster are not as clear as in the novel. ...
A general motive for a firm to merge is to gain market power and build an empire, giving them the ability to raise prices over a non-transitory period of time. This motive is never specified by firms as they more often specify motives that are related to costs and efficiencies. ... There are also merger specific efficiencies which are used as motives such as coordination of joint operations and sharing of complementary skills. With reference to the case, Staples-Office Depot focused their motives on efficiency gains and the welfare effects that this will have on consumers. ...
Motives of a Good Samaritan Celia Kitzinger in her 1997 publication Born to Be Good expressed the ideology that we are all born with an innate empathy for others. ... The more I help others the better I feel about myself, thus my motives are self serving. Some might have different motives for helping others. If it be to relieve ones own distress in seeing some in distress, to make one feel better about oneself or simply the unadulterated selfish motive of self glorification, no matter what the motive, they are all selfish in nature. In conclusion I would like to add that no matter what your ...
Iago: Malignity with a Motive Iago is one of Shakespeare's most complex villains. ... Although Iago starts out without a motive, he soon develops several after the promotion of Michael Cassio. Although in the audience's eye his motives are false and trivial, I"m sure that in his own they are just. ... He may go about this in a very cruel, mean and decietful way, but not without motive. Iago feels in his mind that he needs retribution for beening disrespected and although most will not agree with the methods, or even the severity of his motives, we have to see that in his...
Assignment Assess how the geographic conditions and colonists' motives impacted the Middle and Southern Colonies economically and socially. ... They developed differently as a result of the contrast of the economic motives of the Southerners and the combination of the motives for religious freedom and economic prosperity in the Middle Colonies, and as a result of the different lengths of their growing seasons and the much more fertile soils of the Southern colonies. ... This divide is still being felt today because the South lacks in industry compared to the North The Southern Colonies&...
What was Odysseus's primary motive in the Odyssey? His primary motive was to come home to his wife, Penelope, and to his home in Ithaka. ... However, I disagree with this claim and would argue that Odysseus's primary motive was to come home to Ithaka and to his wife. There are several strong arguments in favor of the claim that Odysseus's primary motive was to come home. ... The author of a book is obviously going to focus on the prime motive of the main character. ...
Kant is hoping to make a moral doctrine free from selfish motives. The definition of a selfish motive for the purposes of this paper is as follows: any action taken with consideration of personal feelings or personal relations. ... Here we have a case of someone breaking a universal moral maxim, to never lie or make false promises, however his motives were the safety of his children and not so much his own safety. ... If Kant's reasons for keeping any inclination away from moral duty was to prevent selfish motives, then there is no such thing as a selfless moral act. So if there are n...
