The deterioration of Salem's social structure precipitated the murders of many innocent people. Arthur Miller's depiction of the Salem witch trials, The Crucible, deals with a community that starts out looking like it is tightly knit and church loving. It turns out that once Tituba starts pointing her finger at the witches, the community starts pointing their fingers at each other. Hysteria and hidden agendas break down the social structure and then everyone must protect themselves from the people that they thought were their friends. The togetherness of the community, the church and legal system died so that the children could protect their families' social status. Being isolated from any other group of people with different beliefs created a church led Puritan society that was not able to accept a lot of change. The church was against the devil, at the same time it was against such things as dancing and other premature acts. The reputation of the family was very important to the members of the community. When the girls were caught dancing in the woods, they lied to protect not just themselves but the reputation of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of evil. Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because people wanted to know who was going to be named next. When the church was trying to excommunicate John Proctor, there were not enough people at church to do it. The people were getting misled so far as to leave a dagger stuck in the door of their minister's house: “tonight, when I open my door to leave my house a dagger clattered to the ground...There is danger for me” (128), were Parris' exact words. With the conveyer of God fearing for his life there was no longer anyone but Abigail to lead the community. The justice system is designed to protect the people that it serves but during the trials the accused witch had two choices, death or imprisonment.
Many of the characters in Arthur Miller's The Crucible have specific human flaws that cause the tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem villagers exhibit failings, including greed, vengeance, and fear, which eventually lead to the downfall of their town. Many villagers, especially Abigail Williams, take advantage of the opportunity to seek vengeance on others through the trials. Greed for power and land often holds precedence when the hysteria takes over. Fear of being arrested or put to death is the key motivation in turning others in as witches. From these three human flaws, the town of Salem falls into chaos with many innocent people paying the price.
For the Greeks, Homer's Odyssey was much more than just an entertaining tale of gods, monsters, and men, it served as cultural paradigm from which every important role and relationship could be defined. This book, much more so than its counter part The Iliad, gives an eclectic view of the Achean's peacetime civilization. Through Odyssey, we gain an understanding of what is proper or improper in relationships between father and son, god and mortal, servant and master, guest and host, and--importantly--man and woman. Women play a vital role in the movement of this narrative. Unlike in The Iliad, where they are chiefly prizes to be won, bereft of identity, the women of Odyssey are unique in their personality, intentions, and relationship towards men. Yet, despite the fact that no two women in this epic are alike, each--through her vices or virtues-- helps to delineate the role of the ideal woman. Below, we will show the importance of Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa, Clytaemestra, and Penelope in terms of the movement of the narrative and in defining social roles for the Ancient Greeks.
Unresolved conflicts between people can have tragic results leading to many sad and unnecessary deaths, marriage conflicts among people, and towns physically and mentally unraveling. Overall, people should set their differences aside and not take it out on each other. Innocent people are dying in Salem because of a few girls’ lies that went too far. That elaborate story they created ends in a lot of death, and it will remain a tragic story throughout history
It was easier for them to blame the devil for the problems of society than fix the problems of their own strict way of life. So the girls involved with Abigail, like Mercy Lewis and Mary Warren, named many people in the town as witches. These people were put in jail and would be hanged if they did not confess to the crime of devil worship or witchcraft. Another part of the developing plot is that John Proctor knows Abigail and her friends are lying, but he is afraid to say anything because eight months before he had an affair with Abigail and did not want to be seen by the town as a lecher, which means wife cheater. So, Mr. Proctor has to fight with himself to come out and tell the truth, or his wife might die because of Abigail saying she was a witch.
Each president attempted to improve lives for the consumers by regulating the products and services provided by these large companies. Additionally, they each supported the development of graduated income and inheritance taxes in order to fuel their activist governments and prevent the development of a business aristocracy. Finally, Roosevelt and Wilson-type liberals broke over their feelings towards large corporations; Roosevelt understood their benefits and wanted to maintain them while improving their character. Wilson felt that big corporations eliminated the ability for middle class Americans and other businesses to enter the market, which he found wholly undemocratic. Therefore, one can see how throughout the beginning of the 20th century, their were differing levels of hostility and support towards big business, which resulted in the republican revival prior to the Great
Salem Village, a small town in Massachusetts, is a very peaceful society. There are small fights, like when half of the village agreed to have a church there and half of the hoi polloi who doesn’t like the idea. Still, it was a very tranquil village. People there are Puritans. Puritans are strict Christian believers. They believe that women and children are to be seen, not heard. They believe that the devils and witches have specters, and specters can attack people. Puritans blame bad crops, death of others, and dreadful events on witches. It was still a halcyon village, until in 1692, when madness arrived in Salem Village, Massachusetts.
The Crucible – Characters and Changes & nbsp; Change is good for the future. " We hear the catchy phrase everywhere. From company slogans to motivational speeches, our world seems to impose this idea that change is always a good thing. Assuming that the change is for the better, it is probably a true statement in most cases. The root of this idea seems to come from the notion that we are dissatisfied with the state that we are in, so, in order to create a more enjoyable environment, we adjust.
She begins by making the claim that lamps are a symbol for slaves throughout the section “Lamps and Slaves”. Her assertion is supported by the association of slaves and lamps through language, both in other texts and within the True Histories,
give up the names of people he worked with who could be communists. As a result, Hollywood
In The Crucible, the mass hysteria surrounding the witch trials caused paranoia amongst the people of Salem. Miller uses the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 as a symbol and allegory of the fear surrounding the spread of communism during the 1950s in America. The community’s sense of justice was blinded by the mass hysteria and for some, a desire for vengeance and personal gain. The Putnams
...ron, protein, calcium, and vitamin A and C, increases immunization rates, improves diet quality, and increases access to regular health care. WIC also provides a variety of education, for example, nutritional education, breastfeeding education, and health education. Benefits of low-income families qualifying for WIC are that WIC provides formula for infants to mothers that are unable to breastfeed. WIC also provides expecting mothers, breastfeeding mothers, and children with iron fortified and nutritional foods such as: cereals, milk, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, eggs, juices and many more.
Great events, whether they are beneficial or tragic ones, bring change in a person. These scenarios can give one an entirely new perspective on life, and turn around his way of thinking. Events such as the Salem Witch Trials show the people involved what they could not see before. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Hale, and John Proctor gain valuable insight into themselves, as well as others.
For the most part the poem is pretty understandable, but there is a dignified and elevated form of speaking throughout the poem. Poe gives human characteristics to non human things that create a “dream” feel to the poem, which also allows the speaker to be somewhat harmonized to world around them and at the same time detached. In Poe’s first stanza the speaker acknowledges the parting of someone else and gives “hope” the physical ability to fly away. This use of personification in the poem helps capture the readers attention and senses when reading the poem. Poe also uses personification in stanza 2 while describing the setting of the beach where the speaker in standing. Poe describes how the ocean is roaring in the background while the speaker stands on the shore. He goes on further calling the waves of the ocean “pitiless” (22). The diction in Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream within a Dream” is of formal
Because such an individual reality is skewed to a greater extent, it is entirely possible that it will differ drastically from the outside reality that exists independently from human biases and perceptions. In her essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday,” Martha Stout highlights how traumatic experiences negatively shift individuals’ perspectives and, by extension, their individual realities when Stout states, “Later on in [an] individual’s life, in situations that are vaguely similar to trauma… trauma may be “remembered” … when there is no hazard worthy of such alarm. In reaction to relatively trivial stresses, the person traumatized long ago may truly feel that danger is imminent again, be assailed full-force by the emotions [and] bodily sensations… that once accompanied great threat” (422). When making this comment, Stout is pointing out that the impacts of traumatic events remain with a person throughout his or her life and can even dictate one’s responses to the outside reality during certain occurrences. Because trauma lingers in a person’s subconscious even after it has occurred, it has the ability to warp one’s perception of “relatively trivial stresses” and cause one experience his or her individual reality with “the emotions [and] bodily
the forest. She is expressing her need to act her age and to break out