The Crucible: How is tension created and maintained between John and Elizabeth, and how does their relationship change?
The Crucible: How is tension created and maintained between John and Elizabeth, and how does their relationship change? Miller's roman a clef play is based on the many deaths in 17th century Salem due to false witch accusations but is actually protesting against the McCarthy witch hunts. The McCarthy witch trials were trialling many people for the invisible crime of communism. America was extremely nervous of communism and many people were convicted of this crime, many of them innocent. Arthur Miller himself was accused of being communist and he was even denied a passport to attend the premier of his play in Brussels. Arthur Miller was so concerned and moved that many peoples lives were being ruined for these unjustified punishments, he wrote the Crucible. Miller connected the McCarthy witch hunts with the witch trials in the 17th Century. In both events he saw paranoia turn into complete hysteria as officials dealt out harsh punishments without any cause Within this play Arthur Miller explores how panic can be built up to such a high level and how it can have catastrophic consequences. He also plays on the way young children can be just as cruel and un-compromising at getting what they want as adults. At the beginning everyone believes the girls to be nothing but good people doing what is required of them. However, as the play goes on we can see how their aims are not as
Discuss Austen(TM)s use of Mr Elliot in Persuasion.
Essay Question - Discuss Austen's use of Mr Elliot in Persuasion. Austen uses Mr Elliot in various ways in Persuasion, this ranges from gaining an insight into other people's characters to contributing to the romance genre. Austen mainly uses Mr Elliot as a plot device in Book Two of the novel after Anne's arrival in Bath. The use of Mr Elliot's character can be tied into most of the major themes of the novel. The first mention of Mr Elliot in Persuasion is in the fist chapter of Book One. We find out that he is the heir presumptive to the Baronetcy, through Sir Walter who is reading the Baronetage. We can see that this is important to Sir Walter as he has added, "Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq." to the pages in the book referring to the Elliot's. This shows how class conscious Sir Walter is, it is blatantly obvious that Austen is ridiculing Sir Walter for being too class conscious. However later in the novel we see that whilst she does not approve of how class conscious Sir Walter is, Austen is still a woman of her time and we see that she is class conscious, through Anne's reactions, but not to the degree that Sir Walter is. In the same chapter we also find out more about Mr Elliot's past relationship with the Elliot family, in particular with Elizabeth and Sir Walter, to an extent. We see that Mr Elliot has disappointed her, "the heir presumptive ... had
Discuss the significance of the chapter titles of the novel in regard to theme in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
Garreth Halliwell Professor Southard EG13 1091 October 11 A-Discuss the significance of the chapter titles of the novel in regard to theme. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, as in most other existing novels, the titles of each chapter holds a distinct significance in regard to the content of that chapter. It could be argued that Amy Tan selects the words for her titles carefully in order to attain the highest level of analogical, and metaphoric purpose from them. An analysis of each of the chapter titles in regard to the main ideas and messages Amy Tan is putting across highlights the purpose of each of them, and displays the metaphoric and analogical concepts that each hold. The title of the first chapter is a repetition of the title of the book. Amy Tan probably does this deliberately so as to focus the reader. The title itself, The Joy Luck Club, directly refers to the name of a club formed by all the four mothers in the book. At this club, all the mothers who are the co-main characters in the book are members. Around the Mah Jong table, the four women gossip and gamble. This is the most likely cause of the name, The Joy Luck Club, in the way that it was fun and enjoyable talking and telling tales, but one also needed luck in order to win the games of Mah Jong. The Joy Luck Club is founded by the women immigrants, so as to keep a part of Chinese tradition alive in the
Pride and Prejudice - What Is It All About?
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE-WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?______________ Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, is Jane's Austen's earliest work, and in some senses also one of her most mature works. Austen began writing the novel in 1796 at the age of twenty-one, under the title First Impressions. The original version of the novel was probably in the form of an exchange of letters. Austen's father had offered he manuscript for publication in 1797, but the publishing company refused to even consider it.Between 1810 and 1812 Pride and Prejudice was rewritten for publication. While the original ideas of the novel come from a girl of 21, the final version has the literary and thematic maturity of a thirty-five year old woman who has spent years painstakingly drafting and revising, as is the pattern with all of Austen's works. Pride and Prejudice is usually considered to be the most popular of Austen's novels. Pride and Prejudice, similar to other Jane Austen's novels, is written in gentle or Horacian satire. The main object of Jane's satire in the novel is the mercenary and the ignorance of the people, a common criticism of the 18th century. Characters in the novel which best carries these qualities are Mrs. Bennet, a foolish woman who talks too much and is obsess with getting her daughters married; Lydia Bennet, the youngest of the Bennet daughter who is devoted to a life of dancing,
How does Michael Henchard Suggest Lucetta Is Shallow where does she come from?
How does Michael Henchard Suggest Lucetta Is Shallow where does she come from? Lucetta enters the story when Elizabeth Jane meets her at her mother's grave. Elizabeth -Jane noticed that it was a lady much more beautifully dressed than she. This mysterious woman disappears in to the distance as Elizabeth goes to confront her. Soon Elizabeth Jane meets Lucetta for the second time, she sits on the bench inside the churchyard. Lucceta asks if Michael is well. She tries to help Elizabeth in her troubles. She soon leaves after she made a proposal about Elizabeth coming to stay with her. Elizabeth accepted the offer and soon she had moved in with Lucetta. The story continues from there. Lucetta's antics begin at chapter twenty one. She begins to show us how shallow she is when she hears her servant showing a visitor into the room. Lucceta decides to put on a little show for a visitor " she flung herself onto the couch in the cymarecta curve with her arm above her brow." She puts herself into a curved position to make her self look irresistible to any visitor who may happen to step up to her quarters. It turns out that it is Donald Farfrae and of course lucceta knows how to play him like an instrument. At first she stupidly jumps up in fright and hides behind a curtain because she is so pathetic this is already a good example to show how shallow she is, to take time to
How far do you agree that Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice is no more than an entertaining study of the surface of polite society and its trivial doings?
How far do you agree that Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice' is 'no more than an entertaining study of the surface of polite society and its trivial doings'? In 'Pride and Prejudice there certainly is a great deal of comedy, and will appeal to many readers for what Claire Tomalin calls 'its good-humoured comedy, its sunny heroine, its dream denouement'. The two main characters appear to be part of what Vivien Jones calls a typical 'rags-to-riches love story', maintaining happiness after a series of vicissitudes, which might incline readers to think it rather superficial. The critic talks about the surface trivia of Austen's society, which seems to comprise only of balls, scarlet coats and Muslin gowns, but she probes beneath the surface of her society, and concerns herself with the real confinement of the lives of women in her period. Jane Austen explores how women were victims of a patriarchal society, by presenting the unfairness of the entail. She presents Mr. Collins as a fool, by bluntly stating through the critical objective narrative that he 'was not a sensible man'. By this we see that it is ridiculous that such an imbecile should be able to turn out the two rational sisters Jane and Elizabeth from their own home, since should they not be married they could be facing the same options as Jane Fairfax in Austen's 'Emma', left to 'the governess trade', with it's
Pride and Prejudice. What is the process of Elizabeths re-assessment in Chapter 36 and how does Austen present it?
What is the process of Elizabeth's re-assessment in Chapter 36 and how does Austen present it? From the first moment that Darcy came to the ball at the Lucas's at the start of the novel and was overheard by Elizabeth saying that he found her "tolerable". Elizabeth's distain for Darcy grows when she meets Wickham who paints a horrible picture how Darcy cheated him. Elizabeth is all too keen to accept the story as she already has got ill feelings towards Darcy. It is only after she reads a letter from Darcy that she begins to re evaluate her feelings and actions for the first time. At the start of chapter 36, Elizabeth's initial reaction to the letter is that she has no expectations but the way Austen presents her feelings portrays the opposite. Words such as 'eagerly' and 'amazement' highlight her contradictory emotions which show that in fact she does have some emotion towards the letter although she does not want to accept it. Most importantly, the phrase 'contrariety of emotion' that is used by Austen highlights the randomness of her thoughts but this could be because she has developed a soft spot for Darcy ever since he proposed to her. It is possible that if Darcy had given her the letter before proposing to her she would have indeed read the letter with 'no expectations'. Upon reading the letter Elizabeth is at first in a state of denial. The large use of exclamation
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The Odour of Chrysanthemums-Next Morning! Elizabeth woke up from her land of dreams to the great hurt of reality. The bright dazzling light of the Sun blinded her eyes as it came through the little space between the curtains. Her face was pale with dry lips and blood shot eyes. The air was damp, tense and heavy. Finally after being lazy, she kicked off her blanket and wore her brown stained gown. Her eyes were transfixed to the top right hand corner of the room. She watched the green water patch spread across the wall on the flower-patterned wallpaper. She sighed, nodded in discontent and trod towards the door. The carpet was damp, her heavy footsteps caused the water in the carpet to splash out and wet her feet. On the wall there was a picture of Walter. Elizabeth stepped up to the picture, took it off its wall holder and threw it across the room into a wall. The glass shattered and the delicate wooden frame got damaged. Elizabeth quickly straightened herself and walked towards the broken picture frame. She gently lifted out the picture of Walter and placed to one side. She picked up the shattered pieces of glass, each piece separately. She squeezed her hand tightly until she drew blood. The colour of the blood reminded her of the red cheeks of Walter. She put the glass pieces and the wooden frame in to the small metal bin in the corner of the room. Elizabeth wiped her
My Favorite Sense.
The Sight. The eyes are the responsible parts of this sense, this sense works by giving us the images of all the objects and things around us, we the humans are not the only ones that have this sense, all the animals that we know have eyes, of course with exceptions, but almost every animal has this sense, but they do not have it so evolve as us, many animals can see colors like we do, other animals don't see the things like we do on a third dimension, they can only see in two dimensions, like we the games of Nintendo, the old games, like the cell phone games. Our sense of sight is very developed, many animal will never see things like we do, with colors and in three dimensions, our eyes can handle this, I don't know how to call them, programs, our eyes get the things we up side down, and they revert the information so we can see things in order, also one part of our eyes can control the quantity of light that we receive, if we are receiving too much light this part of the becomes smaller causing that only a little amount of light can enter the eyes in order to have a better looking of things, and if we are receiving a small amount of light that parts of the eyes becomes bigger so that we can use all the light that we are receiving in order to have a better looking of everything. I think that a very interesting thing of the eyes is that they can say what a person feels and
What makes a good detective?
Introduction For my coursework question I am going to use three stories that we have read in class, which are: The Purloined Letter, The Black Brotherhood, and The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Robbery. I am going to talk about the characteristics of the three detectives in these stories to find out what makes a good detective. All of the detectives in these three stories seem to have some typical characteristics in common, such as Dupin in The Purloined Letter, he is quite relaxed and quiet and has a good understanding of what he is doing, which are the same characteristics that Dick Donovan has. The detective in the Purloined Letter shares some of these characteristics the same as Donovan and Joe. Dupin is a good thinker and uses his common sense, which is generally needed to be a detective. In the Black brotherhood, Dick Donovan is smug and is a thinker; you know more about his thought processes than his physical appearance "I know you you're a detective" this shows that people can tell he's a detective by the way he thinks. This will have an effect on the reader as they may be able to judge what other detectives characteristics are like. Donovan is also a kind character, and is relaxed in what he does, he always thinks of the unexpected, he is open minded, and really sly. November Joe in the Hundred-Thousand-Dollar Robbery is quite quiet and assuming, November Joe
