the name of God often stirs up a faulty society. A society powered within theocracy is dangerous. Theocracy was very relevant in Salem. The author, Arthur Miller, portrayed Reverend Parris to be somewhat stressed out about pleasing the people yet pleasing God at the same time. Parris not only belonged to a community, but something bigger to Salem; Religion. In the very beginning of act one Miller set the tone that theocracy would cause controversy in the Salem society. Miller, talking about Parris
McCarthyism and The Crucible Communists are hidden in the government, and it is my job to weed them out. In Joseph McCarthy’s mind, this was his duty to track down communist and communist sympathizers. Throughout Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy’s career, he became widely known for his uncommon ideas of traitors planted in the Government. He went through great measures to discover the unfaithful and publicly trial those. Perhaps the biggest outcome was publicly naming ten people as communists in
The word crucible can be a single manifestation of all the tragedies that are in this book. Whether the ordeal is literal or metaphorical, it is present throughout the whole course of the play, always afflicting a situation or character with some sort of trouble. But this crucible, this severe test is a catalyst to the development of the characters and circumstances therein. The main lesson in the Crucible is that mass hysteria can destroy a community and that government can move away from the interests
Salem: A town of Puritans who saw the world in terms of good versus evil. The system of government in Salem was a theocracy, meaning God was the true leader of their society. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a story constructed around the Salem Witch trials and an affair between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. While the town of Salem was caught up in the idea of witchcraft, innocent people were unfortunately continuing to be hung. Abigail Williams is very selfish in her decisions throughout
The crucible involves the Salem, witch trials in which is taken place to justify religion and to catch the accused witches. Odd things begin to occur when the Reverend of the village’s daughter becomes ill for an unknown reason. Reverend Parris’s niece Abigail was seen dancing in the woods along with the Reverends daughter Betty. There is no conclusion to why Betty is in a sleep they’re claims that Betty has been bewitched. Reverend does not want to stir the village up with witchcraft because he
The Salem Witch Trials exemplified a devastating time for the people of The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. More than 200 men and women became accused of witchcraft, and 20 of them were put to death. All of this happened because of women known as the "afflicted children." These women, mostly under the age of 20, took the strict social hierarchy of that time and flipped it upside down. But for what? Love? Hatred? Confusion set as the lowest items on the totem pole of Massachusetts turned the world
“interpret the will of God”. In ‘The Crucible’, those who were to interpret the will of God enforced a pure a religiously rooted theocracy which later accounted for the mass hysteria during this colonial period. In William Bradford’s journal, the experiences of newly immigrated Puritans are documented expressing individual interpretations of God’s presence in their lives. The Puritans intertwined the tenets Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the “saints”, and
and in the case of witchcraft in Salem, his main objective is to rid the town of all evil. Judge Danforth is a character that believes in theocracy and is convinced that the legal system will bring about truth and justice in every situation and makes every effort to be fair and has a clear idea of what he is expected to do but his logic is actually
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) Main Ideas: • Quests may not always be as dramatic as a knight having to save a princess from evil, but instead may be as simple as a trip to the supermarket. • There is usually a stated reason for a quest, but the real reason never involves the stated reason. • The real reason for a quest is to always gain self-knowledge. Connection: In the movie “Shrek,” Shrek starts off as a hostile and solitary ogre who dislikes all and is disliked by