Essays 31 - 60
century. It is about a town, after accusations from a few girls, which begins a mad hunt for witches that did not exist" (Anonymo...
threaten the familys very foundation, inasmuch as they have a great deal of emotional and psychological issues to process that oft...
The Crucible The student requesting this particular paper notes (the source of this quote is unknown), "One is to believe that r...
woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at how crucible experiences shape values. The case example of a parent's divorce is us...
This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...
is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...
the whole town ultimately. Abigail is the main character and she is the one who instigates, or illuminates, the behaviors of all...
who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...
strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...
as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...
and they are clearly the minority. In this story the majority is the ruling force, the political body which is essentially compr...
complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...
if the entire city has gone mad and all that is necessary for a person to be found guilty is for the accusation to be made. The lu...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...
Bush Administration and its continual claims that we were in immediate danger mirrors the climate Miller creates in his play. In t...
social compliance is often maintained as a result of the purposeful exploitation of societal guilt by dominant power structures. P...
evidence, and is an insufficient base upon which to press charges in the first place. Moreover, Proctor was not granted the due pr...
of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...
principal rationalization behind the lottery when he says, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson). Warner disparages thos...
at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...
This essay describes "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson in regards to the positive and negative aspects of tradition. Three pages in...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...
anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...
woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...
this a model of an extremely traditional patriarchal society, with the men in charge and the women and children following them obe...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
sea" (LeGuin). As can be seen they are both stories that begin with a simplicity, an almost innocent environment. While Jacksons...