Inherit The Wind At the courthouse in Hillsboro, a small Southern town, Bertram Cates is behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching his students about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Rachel Brown, a friend and fellow teacher who also is the daughter of the town’s minister, visits Cates. She brings Cates some clean clothes and urges him to plead guilty and throw himself at the mercy of the court. Cates remains firm in his resolve. Hillsboro erupts with excitement as prominent lawyers and journalists arrive for the trial.
At one point she says ‘Why, I wondered was God so much more prodigal with his Creation?’ Sitting in a churchyard, we see our heroine mourn the loss of her children and with her head leaning against the cool stone of a cross carved long-ago, she wonders about why such a cross was created. To perhaps appease a god who cared more for the sufferings of man rather than the monument dedicated in His honour. Her ponderings give way to a darker view of religion and this is the beginning of her faith crumbling as she sees flaws within those prayers. She has lost her children and so the prayers that would normally give her hope have given her confusion and represented a darker side for her to believe. In conclusion the plague year has brought many of the characters to question their beliefs.
Maria Teresa's style of punctuating her diary narrative with exclamations continues throughout this chapter. In Chapter 10, Patria compared Captain Pena to the devil, but now that he has maneuvered things so that Minerva and Maria Teresa could be released from prison, he is compared to God. While Minerva compares Captain Pena to God in that he hands down commandments, she also breaks from the theme of comparing Trujillo to God and instead compares him to the devil. The most turning point is when Dede becomes nervous about all of her sisters traveling together to visit their husbands, and her warnings serve as foreshadowing for their deaths. When they laugh at her warnings and she gets upset, Minerva says, "Come on, Dede.
She makes this decision to remain close to her secret lover, Reverend Dimmesdale. Even though her disguised husband is out to unfold the secret of this mystery man, she is determined to run away with him to be with his family. Hester accepts Chillingworth because she thought she needed the support from a man, like the other woman in that time period. Hester wanted Dimmesdale to love her so she remained under the harsh resentment that the townspeople had for
He is totally selfish because only him feel pleasure about having affair with Abigail. “Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again.” (Miller, 23) John says this to Abigail because it is the way that John can try to get through and end the relationship between them. John Proctor is coward because his behaviour does not match his words. He said that he does not want to reach Abigail anymore but he keeps talking to her.
Gaius wanted to turn himself in to avoid fighting but his loyal supporters would not let this happen and after Opimius denied the proposals of agreement for the second time he sent his troops after Gaius and his party. As the fighting ensued, Gaius was so disgusted by these outrages “he attempted to kill himself, but was hindered by his faithful friends.” Instead his friends had him attempt to escape but Opimius’ men caught up to him and murdered one of the great visionaries of this
You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’” (155 Proctor). No matter how hard he asked for forgiveness, she did not believe him. When John Proctor was sentenced to his death, he had to confess to witchcraft. If he did not confess he would be hung. John did not want to die with the guilt of him not confessing, “ I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint.
As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.” In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, John Proctor struggles to act honorably and maintain his good name in the Puritan society of 1692 Salem. John Proctor is said to be, “…a sinner not only against the moral fashion of time, but against his own vision of decent conduct”(Miller 19). After his wife Elizabeth discovers his affair with Abigail, she loses trust in her husband. John blames her for having a cold heart and does not fully accept his own responsibility in destroying her trust by cheating on her. In this case, John acts as a dishonorable man, claiming, “I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral
21 March 2012 Hamlet Essay What if Hamlet would have confronted Claudius, and asked about the murder of his father, and why does Hamlet delay killing Claudius? In Hamlet, Hamlet is secretive which leads to the deaths of many people. Hamlet remains quiet about his father’s murder to keep himself safe. Marcus Webb says, “Hamlet wants to be completely convinced of Claudius’ guilt first.” Hamlet could not tell his mother because if he was wrong, it would ruin their relationship, and Hamlet would not be trusted. Hamlet could not announce it to all of Denmark because the people might rebel against the king and if Hamlet was wrong, he might create a war between his family and the people of Denmark.
However, the way they presented the book and the styles of writing are very different. One should be focus on the purpose of writing these books in order to compare them. Bernier wrote this book as if it was the diary for his stay in Mogul Empire. I assumed that he did not have any plan to see or to do in Mogul Empire. Professor Liu once mentioned that “the doctor travelled without purpose.” It is the main reason why we can read a lot of random materials in this book.