The Crucible By Arthur MillerThe Crucible Is A Dramatic Play Written

The Crucible By: Arthur MillerThe Crucible is a Dramatic play written by Arthur Miller in the early nine teen fifties,depicting the Salem witch trials and the hysteria that surrounded them. The story takes place in Salem Massachusetts in the late seventeen hundreds. The story depicts a small puritan village and the witch hysteria that is mainly created by some little girls. Arthur Miller never tells the reader why the girls start the hysteria but when u read it you get the feeling that its a game that has escalated and is uncontrollable. The main incident that begins the hysteria is when Betty Parris daughter to Reverend Parris goes into a mysterious comma. None of the village doctors can seem to find the cause of the comma, when Reverend Parris questions Betty?s friend Abigail Williams of her mysterious illness Abigail confesses to him that they were dancing in the woods with a slave from Barbados name Tituba. One thing leads to another and words gets around the village and auto matically people start to accuse each other of being a witch.The author does not clearly state the theme of the play, I believe for one main reason. The author wants to let his reader think about the story and think about what it means to him/her. So I believe that the main theme of the book is that a person should not be persecuted for there beliefs no matter what they are or who they worship. This theme can be adapted to fit many situations and can be seen in many events in history. Even though this story took place in the 17th century it still pertains to matters in the 20th century. Even today you will still see people being persecuted because of their beliefs of ideals. I believe that a story like this is universal because until people learn to live with each other and each others beliefs stories like this will always have meaning.The main character of The Crucible in my opinion is Abigail Williams. Abigail William?s is the Proctors servant and also is Reverend Parrises niece. Abigail is involved in the main event leading to the hysteria and she is the unsaid ring leader of the hysteria. Abigail changes from a shy and quiet girl to an emotionally disturbed girl who is in the middle of the witch hysteria. It seems that Abigail controls the other girls who are said to be involved in the events. The other girls seem to follow whatever Abigail does as seen in the court when Abigail says she sees a bird in the rafters of the court house and instantly another one of the girls is scared that the bird is trying to get her. In my opinion Abigail Williams is one of the most important parts of the plot.The Crucible is in the style of play and is pretty easy to read. The vocabulary that is used is for the most part fairly easy, and the sentences are also fairly easy. The most challenging part of reading The Crucible is how the author Arthur Miller uses the language from the seventeenth century. But for the most part the story is pretty interesting and easy to read. I personally would probably not be to quick to read another book written by Arthur Miller only because I find books about history boring. I personally got mostly entertainment from the book but, at some times i found it interesting and after reading it I got a better understanding of the witch trials and the hysteria that surrounded them.

The Haunted Trail Essays - COPS, USA Cartoon Express, Television

The Haunted Trail Essays - COPS, USA Cartoon Express, Television The Haunted Trail Legends The Haunted Trail Well, there was once like fifteen or twen'y years ago this kid, right. An' this kid was like all f***ed up on like shrooms an' acid an' stuff. Kinda like ______. (Laughter) Anyway this night he got inna fight with his parents, an' he like skitzed out an' went nuts an' ran out the back door of the house. Well, the kid never came home that night so his parents called the cops to try an' find him, an' they told them that they were already searching the area because some dude had called them and told them that he had hit a naked kid while driving along the trail that night, an' when he got out to see if the kid was alright, there was nobody there. So anyway they sent out this big search party up into the woods around the trail an' everything an' they couldn't find anything. So the search was called off when it started to get dark but they weren't really too worried cause they figured the kid was all screwed up and just took off into the woods to chill out for awhile, and would turn up in a day or two. Dude didn't show up ever again, there was never any sign of him or his body or anything, it was like he jus' disappeared. Anyway one night there were these chicks campin' up in the field off the side of the trail, an' they were out runnin' around in the woods doin' their chick things all half canned when one of em starts screaming an' freakin' out an' sh*t. So the others run over to see what's wrong an' there's this naked bloody body. So they all start screamin' an' freakin out an' they runs and gets back to camp, hop in the car, an' goes to get the cops. So there's another big search an' the girls show em the spot but again there's no sign an' it gets called off . Now they say that the kid is livin' up here an all the drugs have got him gone crazy, an' he's waiting for someone to do weird sh*t to. Some people have been drivin' up the trail an' seen this naked guy run across the road an' stuff. An' y'all know M_____?(Answers of yes) Well he live up off the trail on the main road an' he told me that sometimes at night different houses will hear this knockin' on their door an' it won't stop an' as soon as they get to the door it stops, they open it, an' there's no one there.