The Crucible, The Lord Of The Flies, And The Book Thief

Expository Seminar Presentation Good afternoon everyone, I’m Jordan Zelenak and today I’m here to talk to you about how my past 5 years of English study have affected my overall attitudes values and beliefs. Although English isn’t my best subject nor the most enjoyable, I can’t deny that it has been extremely valuable when it came to teaching key attitudes and beliefs and reinforcing ones which already existed. To highlight this, I have selected the play, The Crucible, the movie, The Lord of the Flies, and the novel, The book Thief. For each I will analyse how each have affected my attitudes values and beliefs, how each have affected how I view the world and how each successfully use impactful aesthetic devices. ‘The Crucible’, was written†¦show more content†¦The study of the crucible also allowed me to learn of the struggles of puritan lifestyle and how their Witch Trials which killed numerous innocent lives were extremely similar to the McCarthy hearings of the 1950’s. It allowed me to realise how the Puritan lifestyle was extremely strict as the government was intertwined with the church and religious beliefs meaning questioning officials was deemed as questioning their religion their society was based on. The witch trials also allowed me to gain an understanding of the McCarthy hearings as during these trials people were wrongly accused of being communist spies forcing them to lose their job and tarnishing their reputation in the process. As is evident the study of the crucible has also helped me to learn about the time and era the play was set as well as the tragedy of the McCarthy trials from which it was based. The crucible also demonstrated aesthetic devices that are memorable to me even though I studied it a year ago. The most notable aesthetic device which I can recall is during Giles Corey’s execution by weighted stones. As stones were placed on top of a board placed on his chest he was asked one final time to respond to the charges that were falsely placed against him however his last words were â€Å"More Weight† which in turn killed him as the sheer weight crushed his body. In this scene the weight symbolisesShow MoreRelatedBelonging Essay4112 Words   |  17 Pageschoose from the below list. Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Heat and Dust Winch, Tara June, Swallow the Air Gaita, Raimond, Romulus, My Father Miller, Arthur, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts Harrison, Jane, Rainbow’s End Luhrmann, Baz, Strictly Ballroom - film De Heer, Rolf, Ten Canoes - film Shakespeare, William, As You Like It Skrzynecki, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle Dickinson, Emily, Selected Poems of Emily DicksinsonRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesOne Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, or you may fax your request to 201-236-3290. Many of the designations by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the publisher was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or al l caps. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robbins, Stephen P. Organizational behavior / Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge