A dynamic character is a character who's views and opinions change due to certain events that take place in the piece of writing. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a play about the odd series of events surrounding the Salem Witch Trials, several dynamic characters become apparent. The main character and one of the most obvious dynamic characters is John Proctor. ... Throughout The Crucible many trying events took place that ultimately shaped and transformed John Proctor. ... Proctor, prevailing throughout The Crucible, proved to be an essential element, serving not only as a dynam...

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The Crucible is a wonderfully written book by Arthur Miller in the 1950's. ... These themes are only a few of the many in the book The Crucible. ... The setting actually reveals what the character may be feeling just by stating their surroundings. Most of the scenes in the book are in a small room and this shows the restraint that each character may have been feeling. ... It also had good conversation between the characters and all of these points are key to a good, successful book. ...

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The Crucible The word crucible in the dictionary means a container of metal used to heat things to high temperatures or a severe searching test or trial. ... The witch trials eliminated undesirable persons from the society just as a crucible eliminates unwanted metals from the mixture. In the Crucible there are many characters that undergo changes and some that do not. Some characters that undergo changes are Reverend Hale and John Proctor and some characters that do not change are Danforth. ... In my opinion the character that is the most changed is reverend Hale. ...

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The Crucible Essay The story The Crucible takes place during the times of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. ... Although The Crucible is fictitious, the story depicts the historical information of the Salem witch trials, and blends them with fictitious characters with minds of their own to create a very realistic plot and conflict in this story. This story has a few themes that are shown through the actions and the thoughts of the characters. ... The Crucible is a great example of fictional/history. ...

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In The Crucible, Reverend Hale discovers that Abigail is lying. ... Nevertheless, Hale could never be a heroic character because he feels people should accommodate oneself to injustice. In The Crucible, Reverend Hale experiences a transformation, one more remarkable than that of any other character. ...

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The Crucible: Cause & Effect One of the most awful chapters in human history, is oppression. ... Arthur Millers' The Crucible depicts the Salem witch trials during the end of the seventeenth century. ... The Crucible is a terribly accurate portrayal of the accusations of communism in the United States. ... "The Crucible" is quite clearly a response to the political paranoia of the "Red Scare". Miller used his character introductions to include political commentary. ...

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"The Crucible" by Authur Miller was about the original witch hunt. ... These characters included John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth and Abagail Willaims (the girl who threw out the first claim of Witches). ... The plot goes from the first outcry of witchcraft to the execution of one of the main characters John Proctor. ... In "The Front" the main character is reminisant to John Proctor in "The Crucible" because of the fact that they both thought the situation they were in was dumb and they tried to the best of their ability to help their friends. And al...

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The young girls in The Crucible used slander to ruin people's good name for revenge and attention. ... The Crucible is a play that accentuates the consequences caused by jealousy. ... Putnam also shows jealousy in The Crucible. ... Many other characters showed signs of jealousy in The Crucible. ... Within The Crucible, the judgment of many people was clouded by jealousy. ...

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The Crucible was written by a written by Arthur Miller. ... There was an emphasis on braking the Ten Commandments with in the characters of this book The Crucible. Three characters that broke the Ten Commandments that were emphasized in the book were Abigail William, Reverend Parris, and John Proctor. These were the people that broke some of the commandments that were main character in the story. ... Abigail Williams was one of the characters who broke many of the commandments in the book. ...

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The word crucible means a serve test. A lot of people are tested for their character and how deeply there love for God goes. ... But to prove her innocents, his character would be questioned. ... He faced a lot of crucible as soon as he came into power until the play was completely over. ... Keeping his promise to his friend and getting over the biggest crucible ever, most likely more than half of the world will never been through what he went through, to me he is the most honest and trustworthy man more honest than any human man alive today. ...

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In the novel, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, integrity is such a difficult thing to maintain. ... Elizabeth is such a strong character. Miller clearly has certain characters keep their integrity intact, but also while doing so, allowed so many to lose it. ... Moreover, Elizabeth shows the good in other characters trying for so long to keep their faith, and integrity. ... Elizabeth is one of the few characters in this story who succeeded, and earns integrity. ...

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Arthur Miller was one of the people who questioned religion when he wrote his play "The Crucible." "The Crucible" is written about Puritan life in Salem, MA in the late 1500's, which led to the Salem witch trials. ... A minister speaks for God, yet in "The Crucible" he lied for his own benefit. ... The town went mad with witchcraft and everyone was a suspect (The Crucible). ... In a short story of his titled "Young Goodman Brown", the character is met by the devil in the woods. ...

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"The Crucible" Arthur Miller's use of passionate, human emotions-greed, jealousy, and vengeance-helps the audience better understand the characters' personality and motivations. The audience can associate with the characters because these are emotions that everyone in the audience has experienced many times in their lives. ...

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Mary Warren The Crucible by Arthur Miller was in the context of the historical Salem Witch Trials where many innocent people were being accused of crimes or sins they did not even commit. There was one character named Mary Warren who is actually a minor character turns out to be one of the most important, dynamic characters. ... Mary Warren is a dynamic character for only a few pages, never- the less she is probably the most important to the purpose of the play. ...

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In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the United States in 1954 under the iron-mouthed Senator John McCarthy. ... McCarthy was then seen as brash and temperamental, with little evidence to back up any of his claims, and then his following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. ... The play The ...

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The most obvious and prominent character in The Crucible with revenge as their primary motivation was Abigail Williams. ... The Putnam's, though absent as characters through most of the play, were very central to the story. ...

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In Arthur Miller' play, "The Crucible," characters John Proctor and John Hale exemplify the quote written by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just....

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Abigail and Her Multiple Facades In Arthur Millers The Crucible he examines the horrendous trials of Salem witches. ... Overall Abigail is a necessary character in the novel because she adds suspense and liveliness to he story because of all of her facades. ... But as the reader is hating her they are actually loving her for all of the character she adds to the pot line. ...

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Accusations From One to Another Throughout the drama, The Crucible, the rituals of the girls of Salem, Massachusetts are tended to be culpable of witchcraft. ... Altogether, the characters that put forth accusations towards other people that were not true ended up making others lose their lives and causing an incessant accusation of the Salem Witch Trials. ...

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When we were all kids, we all have seen our share of puppet shows right? Shows like Sesame Street, Lamb Chop, and even those freaky Muppets. Those entertaining puppets gave us countless hours of laughter, sadness, and enjoyment. But these puppets, as much as you like to think, couldn"t think by t...

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Character Analysis Giles, fighting for a cause Through out history groups have been blindly accused for the faults and misfortunes in society. ... In his play, "The Crucible" Arthur Miller uses the character Giles to show how an antisocial individual who possesses little sway on a community's opinion may recognize faults in the community causing him to act heroically in order to be heard. ... Several lines later Miller uses his own summary to depict the character of Giles Corey. ... In the end of the play Giles becomes a dynamic character who stands up for his beliefs. ...

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Through the character of Rebecca Nurse, Arthur Miller is able to present the role of women in two ways; to be very powerful, yet despite the righteousness of a women, none can be exempt from the accusations. ... Interestingly, Rebecca Nurse, is the only character to suggest that the people of Salem 'go to G-d for the cause of' Betty's unresponsiveness rather than jumping straight to the subject of witchcraft. ... This shows the unfair treatment of women at the time, due to the fact that Rebecca Nurse helped so many people and was so selfless, but she could not escape the accusa...

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