great author he was, wrote the story of the inhumane events that took place in Salem, also known as The Crucible. Ranging from many dynamic characters introduced like, Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, Reverend Hale, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor, showing the good and the bad of Salem, Massachusetts through these twisted characters. The Crucible by Arthur Miller tell the story of Abigail Williams and other young girls dancing in the forest with slave Tituba. The girls are accused of witchcraft
Jealousy is a sentiment that can lead from a close friendship to dishonesty, betrayal, selfishness and sometimes death. It is based on a surge of envy, desire, sadness and anger. It affects many citizens such as yourself and your relationship with other people. Such as family, friends, and relationships. Greed is when a person can never have enough. It can cause a person to not care who they hurt in the process. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller illustrates a mysterious, suspenseful and dramatic story
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying revolves around the family of the Bundrens. A conflicted family with a lot of them having different motives and beliefs on how situations should be dealt with. The setting of the novel takes place on a rural farm in Mississippi in the 1920s. The heartbreaking but yet somewhat depressing story revolves around the death of Addie Bundren ( the mother of six conflicted people and the wife of Anse Bundren) and her family's quest which motivations could be somewhat noble
“Death sits on my shoulder like a crow... like a judge… like a dark angel…”. This quote from “Half-Hanged Mary” is a symbol of what people felt about themselves and their verdict they had at this point and time in their life. In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, “Half-Hanged Mary” by Margaret Atwood, and in the cartoon “It’s okay… we’re hunting Communist” by Herb Block all show that a society under stress will always have a scapegoat. The people in these pieces of literature are a perfect representation