In Ham’sThe Dressmaker, the truth has little value; instead the citizens are embroiled in malicious gossip and snide falsifications that serve only to elevate their selfish needs. By the time Tilly returns to her hometow...
Salem. Miller uses the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 as a symbol and allegory of the fear surrounding the spread of communism during the 1950s in America. The community’s sense of justice was blinded by the mass hysteria and for some, a desire for vengeance and personal gain. The Putnams...
The Crucible: Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen. A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
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seen the sun go down (P.19). This was significant because if someone was accused and denied the accusations, they were immediately hung, yet if one confessed, all they did was ruin their name and not stay true to their faith. The Putnam's show how hysteria allows people to act on ...
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The Crucible: Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen. A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Betty wakes up and begins screaming. Much of the crowd rushes upstairs and gathers in her bedroom, arguing over whether she is bewitched. A separate argument between Proctor, Parris, the argumentative Giles Corey, and the wealthy Thomas Putnam soon ensues. This dispute centers on money and land...
When Parris tells Putnam that they, “cannot leap to witchcraft” because the people “will howl [Parris] out of Salem for such a corruption” (14), Miller immediately characterizes Parris as someone who is overtly obsessed with his reputation, since his daughter is lying unconscious in bed an...