One of mankind's greatest challenges is to stand up and defend what it knows is right in the face of opposition. Amongst all the lying and self-deceit in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor is able to carry out this noble deed and becomes a fighter against the injustice of the...

American Literature Reverend John Hale although at first is a rough man on the people of Salem, turns out to be a man of morals, and also becomes one of the few people who use's common sense threw out the witch trials. Reverend John Hale is first introduced into ...

During in the 1800's women were burned for possession of witchcraft and corruption by the "Devil". The Devil is a symbol of evil and humans belief that those who are evil are related to the Devil. Many religions use the "Devil" to make a common enemy for their cause. In my opin...

In the well-known play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller has his characters go through many tests and changes. One of the dramatically changed characters is Reverend John Hale of Beverly. Reverend Hale arrives in Salem to try to figure out what was going on with the sleeping girls and witchcraft. He pla...

The title of Author Miller's play the Crucible fits the story in many ways. There are many definitions for a crucible but mainly two of them fit the story most. The first definition of a crucible is a melting pot that chemist and alchemists used to mix metals, but in order to melt the me...

Reputation is by far the most imperative aspect to daily life in Salem, Massachusetts. Morals were both placed at a very high value publicly as well as privately. If a farmer's crop came out particularly bad one year, he or she could place the blame upon their neighbor rather tha...