The play‚ The Crucible’‚ illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people‚ as people did during the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s and the Salem witch hunts of 1962. Many Americans were wrongly accused of being Communist sympathizers. The activities of the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to be linked with the witchcraft trials that had taken place in the town of Salem. This provided Miller with the catalyst to write The Crucible’. Without the knowledge
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Robert Browning was an English poet whose mastery of dramatic verse‚ especially dramatic monologues‚ made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. “My Last Duchess” is one of his best known dramatic monologues in which the speaker reveals his character to a silent listener. This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem. He tells us he is entertaining a representative who has come to settle
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Monologue – Reverend John Hale Before the events of Act Four I have always been a man of God‚ and I used to believe with all my heart that what I did was for him. I took it upon myself to find impurities in the world and banish them‚ whether they be cursed spirits‚ demons or‚ most common‚ witches. I was good at it as well‚ where I went‚ witches died‚ but let me tell you now; every single man or women hung by my order had evidence that they were evil so thick that it could not be ignored.
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I anxiously look around as I enter the courtroom‚ the benches are empty from left to right . All the judges have their eyes on me and it is not the kind of spotlight I want. Immediately‚ my eyes fall down to the ground as I walk with Mr. Proctor by my side. I am here today to confess that I saw no spirits o and that poppet was mine and not Goody Proctor’s. I am willingly to confess to help Mr. Proctor protect Goody Proctor from wrongful accusations of witchcraft. Moreover‚ I am terrified if I say
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Mr. Danforth‚ I’m writing this letter to inform you that you should not believe everything that Abigail says. Abigail is a very untrustworthy women that acts like a child. I do not believe that you should listen to her accusations. She has many reasons to make false stories and accusations. The women she has accused are good christian women that would never work with the devil. Those women have grown up and are now mature unlike Abigail. It does not come as a shock to me that Abigail has lied because
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Abigail’s Conscience I can’t believe all of this has happened. I feel so guilty‚ but I don’t really care‚ I know I’m more important than any of those old people. Besides‚ John Proctor deserved it! How dare he use me just because he was lonely and having marital problems! I had all the rights to destroy his marriage. However‚ I can’t help but feeling awful when I think about those two boys that have no father anymore. Its all my fault! I started this nonsense of witchcraft just because I was scared
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CHARACTER: Abigail Williams POINT OF INTERVENTION: Act 1: Scene 2- After she stabs herself with the needle IMAGINED CONTEXT: By the shed Ahh‚ gee‚ damn! Why does he have to be so ignorant! I am only in my youth‚ yet he chooses to love his wife over my love. He loves me‚ he knows me! I have been robbed of my innocence because he cannot accept the fact that his heart longs for mine. My parent’s desires would want my days to be long and happy‚ curse the Indians that bludgeoned my parents to death
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setting of this monologue is in Salem’s Graveyard‚ 2 years after the hanging of John Proctor. Mr Hale has arrived at the time where night turns to dawn. There are specks of light peeking out from the clouds. Mr Hale is kneeling in front of one particular grave‚ John Proctor’s. John’s Gravestone read’s “John Proctor‚ Hanged‚ August 19-1692. Next to his Grave was Rebecca Nurse’s‚ it was clear Mr Nurse had been here earlier as a bouquet of flowers laid on ground in front of it. Monologue: Mr Hale:
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use of the poetic speaker in dramatic monologues allows him to objectively create a dramatic situation while removing himself as a personality from the poem. This is accompished through a process called double masking‚ in addition to the primary creation of the character or speaker‚ there exists a secondary creation‚ a mask which the speaker uses in dealing with the dramatic situation at hand (Garratt 116). The nature of the poetic speaker in Browning’s dramatic monologue demonstrates an authentic replication
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Under The Settee is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television‚ as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. In A Cream Cracker Under the Settee Alan Bennett has addressed the issue of elderly people in our society and how they are treated by others. It revolves 75-year old Doris on an ordinary day in her house. The play begins after her fall from the buffet and her reflecting on the events that led up to it. The reason the writer uses a monologue is to emphasis to the
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