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  • Hale In Defense Of Proctor
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    John Hale is the minister of Beverly, which has been summoned to Salem to discover and extinguish supposed witchcraft in the town of Salem, Mass. in the colonial period. Haleovergoes a gradual change of character and belief as the play unfolds. As a dynamic character? Though a gradual change it is, the change drastically changes his views and ideas of what is God's will and where his priorities lie. The end of Act One exhibits the audience a zealous priest, Reverend John Hale, looking for eviden...
  • Holy Grail To Parry
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    Jack, a cynical Manhattan disc jockey plunges into a suicidal depression when one of his outrageous comments inspires a crazed listener to shoot seven people in a fashionable nightspot. Redemption comes in the form of a derelict, ex-history professor named Parry whose wife was one of those killed by the sniper. Parry heads a gang of loony homeless people in the search for what he believes to be the Holy Grail. Jack helps Parry in his quest and in the process finds what he had been looking for, t...
  • Reverend Samuel Parris And Reverend John Hale
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    The Crucible: Men of God Men of God? The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play in which the Red Scare from the 1950's is paralleled to the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. It contains a wonderfully developed plot, which displays society's flaws by establishing a good versus evil scenario. Miller creates characters to fuel the evil and others that evolve to show the outbreak of good. Two of these characters are Reverend Samuel Parris, and Reverend John Hale. These men are the spiritual leaders for two n...
  • Giles And Mr Parris
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    The Effects of Revenge The Crucible makes the reader suspicious, confused and angry. Revenge, the key source to this confusing suspicion, develops through the main characters: Abigail Williams accuses Elizabeth Proctor and Mary Warren of witchery due to jealousy, Giles Corey gets pressed for his land out of covetousness, and Mr. Parris believes only those who agree with his greedy ways. Having "known" John Proctor it becomes evident that Abigail, a 17-year-old orphan, is extremely jealous of Joh...
  • Quarrel Between John Procter And Reverend Parris
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    The Crucible: Evil and Greed In Man High personal, acquisitions, evil desires and massive greed took part in shortening the fuse of the chaotic corruption of the Salem witch trials. Amidst the quiet and peaceful period of the Puritan era in America, not everything seemed as they were. Disorder and sin heightened the animosity and deteriorated the very center of a solemn and strong virtuous society. The Puritan belief in the basic evil of man is evident in Arthur Millers The Crucible through the ...
  • Parris And Cassie
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    Shady characters permeate this film, but they can be easily forgotten under the thick melodrama that sweeps you into the storyline. Perhaps the most disturbing character to me was Dr. Tower. I mean, really, who is this guy? From the beginning I could detect a kind of strange dynamic between Cassie and her father. After she and Parris swim together as children, she says that if her father finds out she's been swimming with Parris, he would 'take a switch' to her. At first I thought maybe he was s...
  • Mr Putnam And Mr Parris
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    In the story the crucible by Arthur Miller there is two characters, Mr. Parris and Mr. Putnam who share many similarities and difference. They are unlike and unlike Mr. Putnam just wants to know what happened while Mr. Parris care more about what they think of him then what really happened inside the forest. Both of them believe that Tutuba should confess and some people in the town are suddenly starting to care, and being active into figuring out what had happened inside the forest. Some of the...
  • Reverend Samuel Parris
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    Characterization of Reverend Samuel Parris in 'The Crucible " Eric Rep as Throughout The Crucible we are introduced to and follow four or five important characters that Arthur Miller elaborated upon. One of those characters is Reverend Samuel Parris, a bitter minister who came to Salem for unclear reasons. That reason may have been he was looking for a small town to control, maybe he was trying to escape something or someone, or he may have just wanted afresh, clean start; whatever that reason w...
  • Proctor And Hale By The End
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    There is a lot of confusion is the play The Crucible as to what the certain motivations of the characters in the play is. Why are some of the characters lying about sightings of the devil with certain people they are trying to get rid of The motivations of John Proctor, and Reverend Hale haven t been the same throughout the play. I think Reverend Parris had the same motivations throughout the whole play though which was to benefit himself and not others. Proctor and Hale by the end had the same ...
  • Society Versus The Individual And Personal Relationships
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    Good plays offer audiences an experience which is both theatrical and thought provoking. Is this true of the two plays you have studied The Crucible by Arthur Miller raises many thought provoking issues throughout the play, including the importance of personal integrity, injustice in society and the rights of the community versus the rights of the individual. The first, the importance of personal integrity, is brought to light through John Proctor, who finds himself facing personal conflict when...
  • Thomas Putman
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    Thomas Putman's entrance to the Act leads to further evidence of possible seeds of destruction to come. Putman a very powerful, cunning man brings out the weaker side in Parris "It must come out - my enemies will bring it out". Putman has some old scores to settle with Parris so he is using this as an advantage to maniuplate Parris to get what he wants "you are not undone... you have discovered witchcraft as soon Rev Hale comes, you will proceed to look for signs of witchcraft here". Parris now ...

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