For this project, you will be writing a conflict analysis essay. The audience for this paper should be an imaginary classmate, a student your age, who has read the story through once but has not yet studied it to understand it on a deeper level.
Your paper will be analytical in purpose. This means that your ultimate goal is to choose significant moments, quotes, or techniques from the play, present them, and explain how they work together to create larger meaning. Your paper will analyze three related conflicts from The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Your three conflicts must be related. (Do not just choose the first three conflicts you can think of.) For example, you could write about three conflicts within one character, such as Proctor’s conflict with the court or “justice” in general, Proctor’s interpersonal conflict with Abigail, and Proctor’s internal conflict of guilt. Or, you could write about three characters (perhaps Mary, Elizabeth, and Proctor) who conflict with the court. You will explore one conflict per body paragraph.
What to Write for the Essay –
Introduction
Introduce the three conflicts you’ll be examining.
Preview the larger meaning you will find.
Body Paragraph #1: Conflict #1
Describe the conflict.
Analyze the meaning of the conflict.
Relate the conflict to the other two.
Show support with 2 quotes using MLA in-text citations
Body Paragraph #2: Conflict #2
Describe the conflict.
Analyze the meaning of the conflict.
Relate the conflict to the other two.
Show support with 2 quotes using MLA in-text citations
Body Paragraph #3: Conflict #3
Describe the conflict.
Analyze the meaning of the conflict.
Relate the conflict to the other two.
Show support with 2 quotes using MLA in-text citations
Conclusion
Tie all the conflicts together with an insight, or overall message or theme, conveyed through this play.
Do they all relate to one theme, like justice or paranoia?
Do they show how a character changes over the course of the play?
What other meaning can you find?
Must include a Works Cited page in MLA format
This essay should be between three and five pages (750-1250 words) in length.
Please look over the rubric below, for additional information/details.
https://intervisualtechnology.us/pxudpothrb/167/17774/English_3_Unit_3_Project_Rubric.pdf
Requirements: 750-1250 word