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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Analysis of Good and ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Evil in "The Crucible" ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 09/94 # of Words:1055 School: ? State: ?
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// Analysis of Good and Evil in "The Crucible" //
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It was a play with tremendous feelings with many inside twists hidd en in
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the archives of the true story. It was a play with emotional feelings;
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feelings of anger , hate, and evil, yet feelings of manipulation, good, and
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pureness. It was the Crucible. A fireball of guilt, evil, and good compiled
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into one magnification. The Crucible: Good versus Evil.
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The play contained many scenarios of good versus evil, and the characters
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who generally possessed these feelings and intentions. But it must be
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understood t hat there were the intentions, the incentives, and then the
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actions taken out on a person or a group of people. Every character could
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either be placed in the intentions under good or bad intentions. Aft er
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that, almost every character has mixed feelings of evil or good actions.
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The fight between the centre of evil and the centre of good is the
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foremost important of the points. Abigail Williams is the nucleus of all
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evil in the story. Sh e is the one who triggers off this sense of hate in
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the play. She tempts Proctor into lechery, and comm its unlawful acts which
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all are against the Puritan religion. To escape punishment for dancing, she
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deflects the actions and blames them on someone else, and does not care how
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many lives she ruins. La ter when she grows into power and influence, she
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seems to enjoy sending these innocent peopl e their deaths. She takes
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pleasure in her lies, and thrives on the attention and power that th ey
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bring her. All these are the aspects of being the evil character. Power,
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attention, and acts of w rongful doing. Therefore she can be labelled with
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being the evil character in the novel. She uses evi l actions disguised as
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good by admitting who was with the devil. Of course the people she accuses
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a re actually innocent, but she has the ability to manipulate people into
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believing that she is doin g good. This again is evil.
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The centre of good can be labelled as John Proctor. He is considere d the
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'hero' of the story, because he fits into the points that make up the hero
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of a story. Pr octor is a heroic martyr at the end of the play, when he
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falsely admits that he was with Satan all a long. He then refuses to tell
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the judge and accuse anyone of being with Satan too like Abigail did. Th
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erefore he may be considered a martyr, for dying for a cause of saving the
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lives of other innocen t people. John Proctor also tries to defend his
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wife, and attempts to make the judge realize how Abiga il is manipulating
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him. This is where the conflict arises between good and evil. It is
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survival o f the fittest. Who will survive at the end? Abigail Williams or
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John Proctor? This is the main battle o f the story.
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John Proctor is not a saint in this story either. He does possess s ome
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fragments of evil in his soul. His intentions are to do good and that
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justice is served, but he wants this so badly, that he also turns to evil
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incentives to kill Abigail (subliminally for w hat she is doing). At the
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latter part of the play, he tries to use evil to counter evil by saying he
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was w ith the devil. His intentions are to do good, but that is really
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against the Puritan Code, and hence i s considered evil. One more fault
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that Proctor has was for committing lechery with Abigail. This is ev il,
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because it is against the Puritan rules. Abigail and Proctor are both at
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fault.
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Ann Putnam was greatly influenced by Abigail's doings, that she beg an to
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follow the same strategy. She then accuses Rebecca Nurse of witchery to
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escape her a ccusation. This deflection is just used to keep herself out of
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trouble. Consequently, Ann Putnam i s then considered evil, for using
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deflection.
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Marry Warren's intentions at the beginning of the story were to do good
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and justice. But she sees that when she is in trouble, she also needs
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someone to defl ect the punishment on. This greed results in her saying
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that Proctor was associated with Satan, and that he possessed her and made
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her do all of her wrong actions. Her intentions were first good , but then
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her actions turned into pure evil, just like Abigail had done. Reverend
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Hale also is deceived into the traps of Abigail, and accid entally goes
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along with her plans. He thought he was doing good, but his actions turned
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out to be evil and wrong. He later realizes that he was being manipulated
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by Abigail, and decides to ma ke up for his actions, so he can be good.
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Hale begins by visiting the accused in jail and telling them to confess to
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being with the Devil, so they may get out alive. This action is wrong
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against t he Puritan code, but his incentives are to do good, so the people
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will not be executed for no reason. He can therefore be considered good at
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the end of the story.
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One very important battle that is not very obvious in the story is with
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God and the Devil, being good and evil. The question is will the accused
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people be sent to heaven with the good God, or will they burn in hell with
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the evil Satan? This is mainly what t he whole play is based on. The
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Puritan religion is the reason for why the people are being executed . In
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conclusion, there is a substantial difference between the forces of good
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and evil in the play. The forces of good always tried to do what was best
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for everyb ody, even if it meant breaking some Puritan laws. The evil group
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did whatever was best for themselv es. They were greedy, and had no
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consideration for others. But one thing that must be remember ed is
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usually, the good always prevails over the forces of evil. It was not the
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same in The Crucibl e. In the end, Abigail had succeeded in her wrong
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doing, and had killed Proctor. For once, evil emerged victorious...
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