Rebecca Nurse and I
“A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.” This is a quote said by Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible, this is said when Ann Putnam asks Rebecca to go check on Ruth to wake her up. Rebecca Nurse is an honest and caring woman in The Crucible that has eleven children and twenty six grandchildren. She was eventually accused of murdering Ann Putnam’s seven babies. Rebecca Nurse and I have a few personality traits in common in that we are caring/reasonable, faithful/trustworthy, and being well known individuals.
Both Rebecca Nurse and I are both caring and reasonable individuals in many ways. Rebecca Nurse portrays the way she care’s by being a good mother, taking care of her children, and overall being a generous person. She shows her caring side by giving money to charities because of her wealth. Not only does she take care for her children and the town bust she is also reasonable. She is reasonable for understanding that kid’s are kid’s and she let’s them act their age and doesn’t look down on them or get
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Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible gives off many ways to of how she is trustworthy and faithful. She stays faithful to God, reading the bible, and is faithful to the one’s she loves. Rebecca Nurse is trustworthy because she is honest and would never tell a lie due to being religious. I share in common with Rebecca Nurse by being trustworthy and faithful in many ways as well too. Im trustworthy because I’m honest and i won’t tell a lie. I won’t tell anyone's “secrets”, I always keep a promise and I always stay loyal to being trustworthy. Im faithful in ways when it comes to soccer. I will have faith and hope before we have games. I have faith in my teammates, my team, and winning the game. Rebecca Nurse and I share in common being trustworthy and
In The Crucible Rebecca Nurse throughout the entire witchcraft situation is the only one making a good choice and staying levelheaded. She has a very good reputation throughout the village and has given a lot of charity. Rebecca Nurse realizes that the reason the kids are acting this way is because that's how kids are. She thinks all of the accusations about witchcraft are false. Rebecca Nurse is very down to earth with the children and would never accuse them of anything.
heard a metallic click, and I froze.”” (Butler,36) Dana also shows the same feelings in her second visit as well. While she’s hiding in the bushes, she experienced the white men whipped a black man. As she quotes, The white men, “hustled the man to a tree so close to me that I lay flat on the ground, stiff with fear. With just a little bad luck, one of the whites could spot me, or, in the darkness, fail to spot me and to step on me.
Alas, the pinnacle of the chaos that rampantly overthrew the town, initialized due to the people of Salem deliberately ignoring the word of God. However, Rebecca Nurse has never defaulted to betrayal amidst the chaos. In act I of “The Crucible”, Goody Nurse is immediately defined as having aided Goody Putnam in all eight of her labors as a midwife. Later in the play, Goody Putnam complains that seven of those children had perished and proceeds blames Rebecca for it. The text reveals that Rebecca Nurse was condemned for “the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam’s babies” (Miller 63).
If I were taking advice from someone, I would listen to the person with the most experience and knowledge on the subject. In Arthur MIller's "The Crucible" Rebecca Nurse seems the most fit to hold that role. Since she is a peacemaker, wise and valued she is very important in the community. Rebecca is wise to child care.
She was vicious, damnable, rotten through and through. We never loved each other, never had one moment of happiness together. Rebecca was incapable of love, of tenderness, of decency. She was not even normal (R., P.298). This quote suggests that Rebecca was not a human, she was “damnable” and wicked.
The Crucible Essay The theme of hysteria is evident throughout Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and in everyday life and society. Driven by self-preservation, hysteria influences many characters’ actions and leads to the devastating witch trials in Salem. For instance, many characters in The Crucible are driven to execute drastic actions to sustain their reputation and protect themselves.
Throughout the beginning of the novel it is evident that some characters over use their powers, one of these characters being Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched uses her position in the ward to take advantage of the patients and make sure that they adhere to everyone of her daunting commands. Nurse Ratched “tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine” (Kesey 28) because she has been on the ward for so long that when something doesn 't go according to her plan, she starts to get mad and will often try to use her power to come down on the patient 's. Nurse Ratched is in control of the whole ward and when someone does something that isn 't in her manuscript she gets irritated. The ward will be run her way and only her way, “ under her rule the ward inside is almost completely adjusted to surroundings” (Kesey 28).
Rebecca Nurse was blamed for the death of all of Ann Putnam’s children, except for one. The events also caused numerous people to be convicted of witchcraft, some of them being executed. Two of the most notable people convicted in the play were John Procter, condemned for adultery and later hung, and Tituba, who confessed, saving her own life.
The United States of America has many well respected people like, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa parks, Sam Houston, and many more. In the Book The Crucible, author Arthur Miller, townspeople turned on each other for their own reasons. Some use it as revenge and others out of fear. Rebecca Nurse age 72 the wife of Mr. Nurse, is friends of most in the town and has no problems with any. She is a well respected and peaceful person who teaches us that integrity leads to more of a self-satisfied life.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Miss Caroline is treated poorly because some of her students think she is picking on a kid that comes from a poor family. It is the first day of first grade for Scout and Miss Caroline is her teacher. Miss Caroline's students do not realize that she is not trying to pick on a student named Walter when she tries to be nice by paying for his lunch but does not know that he would have to pay the money back. “You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you”.(Lee 28)
Several people are heroes in The Crucible because they are brave and morally strong. First, someone who is a hero is Martha Corey. She is falsely accused of bewitching Walcott’s pigs, but does not confess and lie because she is morally strong. Her husband tells Hale that, “Walcott charge her … He goes to court and claims that … Martha bewitch them with her books!”
This magnanimous, sensible woman refuses to follow the hysteria even to save her own life. Nurse,s charity becomes apparent in Act one when reverand John Hale comments on her reputation outside Salem. Nurse's magnanimous personality is emphasised even more in act 3 when Hale says "If Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothings left to stop the whole green world from burning". This quote marks the point in the play where Hale realizes that innocent people are being accused of witchcraft. Rebecca Nurs refuses to abandon her moral code, even when facing death.
Tom Robinson is a mockingbird in that he doesn't do one thing wrong. All he does is provide help to the people he interacts with. That is exactly how he got in trouble. Tom Robinson was helping Mayella with some chores. He was humming a melody and when he chopped up the dresser drawers.
Everyone has character traits that describe who they are, it is not uncommon for people to share some. A character trait Odysseus, from the epic poem The Odyssey, and I share is optimism. I have been optimistic through the hardest of times and the easiest of times, just like Odysseus. I was optimistic in getting a dog because my mom said we could not get a dog until she stopped working. When my mom had stopped working, she said I had the maturity to take care of a dog
“Why, it is a lie, it is a lie; how may I damn myself? I cannot I cannot.” Rebecca Nurse, a character from The Crucible, is on the verge of being condemned to hand for witchcraft and is being pressured into admitting her identity. Rebecca is a married women to Francis Nurse. She is a kind, religious woman who has raised eleven wonderful children.