Warren Commission

Ever been accused of something that you didn't do? During the year 1692 to 1693 The city of Salem helds the witchcraft trials. In "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, The people of Salem were falsely accused of witchcraft due to Abigail Williams and many girls who say that they had seen people with the devil.Many of the people were hunted or stoned due to having connections with the devil. So Judge Danforth came to town to cleanse the town. But Judge Danforth just wanted to get out there and whoever…

Passion, Lust, and Evil Puritans in the 17th century emphasized apathy in marriages. The religion devoutly believed strong emotions were the outset for sin. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a passionate and hearty affair instigates a whirlwind of vengeance and accusations known as the Salem Witch Trails. Abigail Williams, a teenager in lust with her elder and former employer John Proctor, seeks vengeance on Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, for separating her from him. The three characters’ decisions…

This line that the First Witch says, demonstrates figurative imagery through the use of a simile. The witch is explaining to her sisters how she plans to interfere with the life of a sailor and compares herself to a tailless rat. This develops the image of an ugly rat and details to readers that the witches will act as nuisances throughout the play. Similar to a rat, they will cause a great deal of trouble through tampering and interfering with the lives of others. A rat is typically considered…

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here” Marianne Williamson. The fear of the world didn't just come out of nowhere, fear came from a source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to…

The Crucible was written in 1953, by Arthur Miller, a famous American playwright. The play is about the Salem witch trials. If you are not familiar with the Salem witch trials, they occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, during the late 17th century and involved the execution of many women accused of witchcraft. The Crucible The dictionary describes the word crucible as a container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures, usually done in order to…

The Salem witch hunts were a sadistic series of false accusations that had people hanged with no evidence that they were guilty. For example, ” Anyone who suspected that some untoward event or development was the work of a witch, could bring the charge to a local magistrate. The magistrate would have the alleged evil-doer arrested and brought in for public interrogation, where the suspect was urged to confess. Whatever his or her response, if the charge of witchcraft was deemed to be credible,…

save his life, which causes him to lie more. In addition, Proctor yells at the court and also uses profanity, revealing a bit of a rude personality. For example, when John Proctor yells, “God damns liars, Mary!” (Miller 117). Proctor yells at Mary Warren to get her attention, by using profanity. On the other hand, Reverend Hale is a…

through characters, fear is shown through plot , and hysteria is shown through theme. Fear is shown through plot by the lie that has gone too far and is ruining people's lives on telling the truth. In one instance John Proctor is taking Mary Warren to court to confess she lied about everything and so the girls. “ I cannot lie no more. I am with god, I am with god.” ( act 3 , 97, Miller) when this is having Mary knows she must tell the truth so she goes to court and tells the judge it was…

“Chillingworth was the worst he tried to get revenge and kill someone!” “Dimmesdale is the worst, he was a minister and committed adultery.” “Pearls the worst she was a disrespectful kid.” These all sound like bad people but seriously, we all know Hester has got to be the worse character of them all. Hester is the reason everything happened, without Hester none of the other characters would have had any conflicts. If Hester did not go to the woods with Dimmesdale, or if she would have told him…

Fear specifically is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Throughout the history of man, fear has remarkably had a prominent effect on the actions of many: used by dictators as a tactic to control, used in politics and religion to manipulate people’s positions. Fear materializes to the world in many forms; basic fears akin to those of spiders or heights, to more complex fears that are deep-rooted, like…