In the Crucible, how has Elizabeth changed during her imprisonment?

Elizabeth has grown spiritually, I think, during her time in prison.  Where once she was quick to judge Proctor and to withhold her forgiveness, now she is free to forgive Proctor and to admit that whatever the problems in her marriage to Proctor, she had some responsibility for that: 

I have sins of my own to count.  It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery."

She realizes it is not her who is judging her husband, now, he is judging himself.  She sees him as good; it is him who does not see himself as good: because he wants to confess a lie and live; because he cheated on his wife.   This is why, although she wants him to live, she understands when he recants his confession.  He can't live with himself if he judges himself as evil.  He needs his goodness more than he needs his life.  The Elizabeth who spent time in prison is mature enough to understand this although she rues the necessity and hates the  false court and accusations that brought this cruel circumstances:  so she lets him go: 

He have his goodness now.  God Forbid I take that from him."

How does Mollie from Animal Farm represent the vain and selfish people of Russia and the WORLD

Mollie is a lot like the character from Greek mythology,
Narcissus. If you have ever heard someone described as narcissistic, it simply means he
or she is in love with him or herself, self-absorbed, or vain. Mollie, like many people
in this world, falls into this category. She is more concerned with maintaining her
beauty with Mr. Jones ribbons, admiring her name written in sticks, and protecting
herself as she did in the Battle of Cowshed, than making any positive contribution to
the good of Animal Farm. Mollie, like many people of the world, is concerned only about
herself, rather than the good of her community.

What would have happened to Jonas and Gabe if the searchers found them?

I believe that both of them would have been released.  The
people would receive the memories that the Giver had given to Jonas, but they would
recover.  The process of finding a new receiver would begin all over again.  If you
recall, to be released is to be killed.

The children are
both receivers so the process would take longer.  One thing that we are aware is that
Jonas and Gabriel have light eyes which may be a quality that the elders will be looking
for when they look to find a new receiver.

In the quote "So he's a bloody four-letter man as well as a bloody coward, he thought," what is the four-letter word Hemingway means?

What Wilson means by a four-letter man is a college athlete who goes out for many different sports. At the upper-class Ivy League colleges like Harvard and Yale, it was common for athletes to wear varsity sweaters with symbols sewn on them to show which sports they participated in. To have four letters on a varsity sweater would be unusual and distinctive. Varsity-level college athletes were often described as “lettermen,” and varsity sweaters and jackets were often called “lettermen sweaters” and “lettermen jackets.” The sports would probably be football, tennis, and perhaps swimming, golf, track, boxing, and almost certainly rowing. The varsity sweaters and jackets would be in the school colors. There are still plenty of them sold, as can be seen on Google. Hemingway never went to college and was probably both envious and contemptuous of men who did. Since Robert Wilson is an Englishman, he must have known about these varsity sweaters and jackets because they were imitations of the same sorts of garments worn by athletes in the upper-class English schools like Oxford and Cambridge, where cricket would have been included.

Why does Atticus not want Scout to tell Miss Caroline about their compromise? What does this indicate about Atticus' character?Chapter 3

Atticus makes this deal with Scout in order for them to keep reading together.  If Scout tells Miss Caroline, who is a not only a new teacher but also new to Maycomb (she is from northern Alabama), she would continue to punish Scout.  Atticus obviously does not want this.  It likely reveals that Atticus recognizes Miss Caroline's need to appear like she is in control of Scout's education.  Remember, she is making a big deal about bringing 'new' education ideas to Maycomb's school, notice Jem's reference to the Dewey Decimal System.  Miss Caroline is unfamiliar with the families of Maycomb and their ways.  Had she known Atticus at all, she would have realized that no one in Maycomb holds education in a greater light than he does.  However, he realizes that Scout is special - as is their time together spent reading the paper each evening, which is why he has her keep quiet about their deal.  This reveals too how crafty Atticus is.  He is willing to keep things quiet to please everyone.

What are the best quotes from O-lan showing how she is a good person, or quotes that show her character.

O-lan is certainly a good person, to say the least.  She
is kind, considerate, self-sacrificing and hard working.  To the best of my knowledge,
there is not one incident in the novel that tells of a selfish or thoughtless side of
O-lan; she even fails to really protest when she gives over the jewels she has treasured
for so long.  There are many passages and quotes that reveal O-lan's generous and giving
characteristics.

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...The woman, when he had gone in the morning,
took the bamboo rake and a length of rope and with these she roamed the countryside,
reaping here a bit of grass and there a twig or a handful of leaves, returning at noon
with enough to cook the dinner.  It pleased the man that they need buy no more
fuel.

In the afternoon she took a hoe and a basket and with
these upon her shoulder she went to the main road leading into the city...and there she
picked the droppings from the animals and carried it home and piled the manure in the
dooryard for fertilizer for the fields. These things she did without a word and without
being commanded to do them.  And when the end of the day came she did not rest herself
until the ox had been fed in the kitchen and until she had dipped water to hold to its
muzzle to let it drink what it
would.

Even when O-lan was on
her deathbed, she thought of those around her and referred to herself as a slave, taking
pride only in her role as a mother.

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"And has everyone wine?  And is the sweet rice
dish in the middle of the feast very hot and have they put full measure of lard and
sugar into it and the eight fruits?"

When he assured her
that everything was as she wished it, she was content and lay
listening.

...Strength passed from O-lan and she grew weary
and faint and she called to her the two who had been wed that day and she
said,

"Now I am content and this thing in me may do as it
will.  My son, look to your father and your grandfather, and my daughter, look to your
husband and your husband's father and his grandfather and the poor fool in the court,
there she is.  And you have no duty to any
other."

..."Well, and if I am ugly, still I have borne a
son; although I am but a slave there is a son in my house."  And again she said,
suddenly, "How can that one feed him and care for him as I do? Beauty will not bear a
man sons!"

How was the feudal system apparent in the movie "Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many"?

Definition of Feudalism:

I
have seen a Cadfael movie, but I don't remember anything about it.  I can tell you a
little bit about feudalism.  Maybe that will help you recognize what is apparent in the
movie.

Feudalism was a social system which is to say it
encompassed everything about life: the form of government, the type of economy, the
social habits of the people, and so on.  Society was organized sort of like the
military.  There were definite ranks and each rank owed respect and work to the rank
above it and owed protection to the rank below it. In fact, society was organized for
the purpose of providing a military force.

Theoretically
the king owned all of the land in the kingdom.  The use of the land was divided up
between the king and several barons.  In return for the use of their share of the land,
each baron was to furnish a big number of knights to the king's army if the kingdom had
to go to war.  Each baron divided up the use of his share of the land amongst a whole
bunch of men who would be the knights in case of war.  Each knight gave the use of some
of his land to freemen, and the use of another part of his land to villens (comes from
village I think), who were a type of slave.  They could not be bought and sold, but they
belonged to the parcel of land to which they were assigned.  They could do nothing else
but farm that land.  Also, each knight had some land which he did not assign to a
freeman or a villen; the villens were required to work so many hours each week on the
knight's land.  A portion of each farmer's farm produce went to his knight; a portion of
each knight's farm produce went to his baron; and the barons had to send some of theirs'
to the king.  (The freemen and knights and barons had to pay taxes,
too.)

The knights or the barons or both (I am not sure)
held courts to decide disputes between the people who were dependent upon them.  The
king also had a court to try bigger offences.

Lower ranking
people showed great respect and deferrence to higher ranking people.  Higher ranking
people were supposed to be respectful to lower ranking people as long as the lower
ranking people "behaved" themselves.  Powerful people don't always do what they are
supposed to do, but much of the time they did.  They might do bad things to lower
ranking people who were not respectful to them.  So, most of the time, everybody was
very respectful to everybody else.

Higher ranking people
owed protection to lower ranking people.  And, as long as the lower ranking people
fulfilled their obligations of respect and work or knight-service, the higher ranking
people could not take their assigned land away from them.  There were some exceptions to
this rule, but they had to be approved by a court of law.

A
baron in England, had the use of a vast amount of land, but it was not all in one place.
It was scattered about among several different counties. Which ever baron had the most
land in a county, he was usually the sheriff of that county. He had great power; it
would not be inappropriate to call him a vice-king for the
county.

Power, in those days was inherited. When the old
king or baron died, it was usually his oldest son who became the new baron. This was
made the custom in order to preserve the peace, so that different people would not
contend (make war)for the same position. Sometimes, if all the barons did not like the
person who was about to become the new king, they could get together and select a
different person to be king, but this was dangerous, because if some barons liked one
person and some liked another person, they might go to war over who was to be the new
king.