Compare and Contrast Half Hanged Marry and the Crucibles

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Half Hanged Mary, and Crucibles Compare and Contrast The poem of the Half hanged Mary by Margret Atwood and the novel The Crucibles by Arthur Miller, compare and contrast in many ways. Each are written in the time of the puritans during the conflicts of the Salem witch trials, the two stories are contrasted in the way of which they are composed, and their point-of-views. In many ways the two stories compare along their story line, and have very few contrasting factors. Atwood and Miller use each of their stories to depict the awful events of the Salem witch trials,Atwood by reveling the personal thoughts of Mary Webster as she was innocently hung by a tree, and Miller by creating the scene of the Salem witch trials from a whole town’s point of view. The Half hanged Mary and the Crucibles compare in the ways of each ones story lines up. During the time of the 1680s women were mostly put as target for being a so-called witch. The half hanged Mary states “oh yes, and breasts, and a sweet pear hidden in my body. Whenever there’s talk of demons theses come in handy.” Here Atwood is stating that because she is a women she is targeted to be associated with demons.Likewise as in the crucibles the trials all start with the young girls, and lead their way out to accusing more women. The two stories also compare in that each accusation is not based upon fact, for all is based upon a rumor. The begining line of the Half Hanged Mary states “Rumour was loose in the air hunting for some neck to land on.” This is stating that the accusations were based meerly on rumor, only the act of one pointing out who was next. The Half Hanged Mary and The Crucibles compare in many componets of their story lines, Atwood and Miller also use many of the same ideas to potray the thoughts of the innocent, and the reactions of the townspeople. As the two stories compare in many ways through

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