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If I’m A Witch, You’re A Witch

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In this unit, we read and analyzed The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, a tragedy play that took place in Salem written and performed in the 1953. The play itself includes a lot of themes and connections between characters’ relationships and the story setting. Therefore, we gave extra effort to really go above and beyond. First, we had a dramatic reading summative that allows us to get into a character’s tone, emotion, actions, and communication. Then, we analyzed a prompt given to us by the TIEA format, which allows us to think deep and take evidence from the play write to support our message. Lastly, we composed a blog post that shows connections on a theme in the play write to either text, self, or world.

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The Disjoint OR Mutually Exclusive Characters

The Disjoint OR Mutually Exclusive Characters

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When two events are disjoint, they have no common outcomes and cannot occur together. Have you wondered how this definition plays a role in The Crucible?

For two disjoint events, the probability that one or the other occurs is the sum of the probabilities of the two events. In The Crucible, Judge Hathorne and the Deputy Governor, Judge Danforth, are the two characters that serves as foil for each other.

In Act 3 in The Crucible, Judge Danforth holds and displays the power and dominance he has in the court. However, this makes his anxiety clear that he centers on his reputation to the majority. Therefore, it makes his decision biased, or that his decision can be altered easily based on the majority’s opinion.

Judge Hathorne doesn’t worries about his reputation because he has the majority’s trust. The minority who does not agree with him doesn’t matter. However, he does not trust the accuracy of his opinions. As the service of foil, Danforth trust himself as a fair-minded, which allows the court to be processed. Even though the two characters have completely opposite character traits, it allows the play to rise in plot, but doesn’t cross the line. If they have the same character trait of Judge Hathorne, the purpose of the court serves nothing. If they have the same character trait of Judge Danforth, there will be arguments arising between the two judges and the dominance control over the court.

“Power and Dominance in the Court” by quimono via Pixabay

HATHORNE, astonished. She have robbed you?
PARRIS. Thirty-one pound is gone. I am penniless. He covers his face and sobs.
DANFORTH. Mr. Parris, you are a brainless man! He walks in thought, deeply worried. (117)

The emotion and context Harthorne and Danforth serves is completely different in the court. Hathorne doesn’t make much opinions about the case while Danforth bursts out his thoughts.

HATHORNE. Excellency, she is condemned a witch. The court have–
DANFORTH, in deep concern, raising a hand to Hathorne. Pray You. To Parris. How do you propose, then? (118)

The power and dominance of the court surely is being hold by Danforth, that he has the power to cut off Hathorne’s words.

The connection to characters that serves as foil to each other, isn’t necessarily disjoint about the characters, it’s about their character trait. To me, each and every family are disjoint because they each have different ways of doing things and things that they are used to do. Family members are complement to each other which also serves as foil to each other about their placement in the family. Some family members take up more and the others will receive less, but the probability that one or the others occur is the sum of the probabilities of the all the family members, 1.

The definition also allows the rule that one cannot entirely take over the other, in other words, to replace. If Judge Hathorne doesn’t have Danforth, he will have no control over the court, because nobody’s in control if Danforth’s gone. In another perspective, if a family member takes over another’s spot in the family, it’s not a family because someone is there but stands zero in the probability of 1.

MLA Citations:

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play In Four Acts. New York : Penguin Books, 1976. Print.

Making Connections With The Crucible

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There is always blatant lies someone tells and everyone else believes, and even worse, it affects the other’s reputation in ways more than one.

In The Crucible, the most significant scene that played is that after Abigail led the witchcraft practice in the forest with the girls, she accuses Tibuta to be the head of all of it after being confronted by Reverend Hale. In Tibuta’s perspective, I can really notice her feelings from her tone and emotion, first having fun dancing in the woods, together doing the same thing, but when troubles come, one jumps out to blame the other as if first come first serve.

“Abigail: Don’t lie! To Hale: She comes to me while I sleep; she’s always making me dream corruptions!
Tibuta: Why you say that, Abby?” (Miller, 41).

It is significant that Abigail lies by telling Tibuta to not lie, and Abigail really took hold of this dialogue trying to convince Reverend Hale about his original accusation, knowing that he just wants someone, anyone to take blame in this trouble. The character traits are completely different and somehow opposite, in Abigail’s perspective, she basically wants Tibuta to die at this point, because the false accusation already gave it away and Abigail knows that it’ll never go backwards. Tibuta, still in shock of all of this sudden accuse, doesn’t know how to fight back as Abigail has taken hold on this conversation. Finally, with some physical support from Reverend Hale, Tibuta helplessly took the accusation.


“Believers”
Courtroom via Visual Hunt / CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

“Hale: You have confessed yourself to witchcraft, and that speaks a wish to come to Heaven’s side. And we will bless you, Tibuta” (Miller, 43).

It is always frustrating to clean up after someone, or to be accused of something that I never did. As the one being blamed often, I always ask myself “how can people believe lies when the truth is so obvious?” and become so frustrated about why I have no one to blame if it seems so easy for others. In The Crucible, death penalties were everywhere, and that’s why the people in Salem are afraid that they have no one to blame because accusations and playacting will keep coming.