The Crucible Tragedy

Plays are generally split up into one of two categories: tragedies or comedies. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is most definitely an accurate representation of the true meaning of a tragedy. The Crucible is an example of a tragedy of classic proportions. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude. According to Aristotle, a tragedy must be in the form of action, not of narrative and must have incidents arousing pity and fear. Therefore, every tragedy must have six key parts to it: plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle, and music. The most important of these parts is plot. The first and most important feature of tragedy is plot. Plot is also known as the …show more content…
Character will support the plot in a perfect tragedy, producing fear and pity in the audience. In a play, the protagonist should be prosperous and renowned, so his fortune can change form good to bad. This change should come about by the own character’s flaw, not by fate. The protagonist should bring about his own downfall by his mistake. There are six qualities characters in tragedy should have: “good or fine”, “fitness of character” which is true to type, “true to life” which is realistic, “consistency” which is them being true to themselves meaning they should keep their personality and motivations throughout the whole play, “necessary or probable”, and “true to life and yet more beautiful” which is the character being idealized or …show more content…
He is an honest man and continues his honesty throughout the whole play and it is his honesty, which eventually kills him. Through Arthur Miller’s The Tragedy of the Common Man, Arthur Miller’s view on tragedy is a specific one. To Arthur Miller, tragedy implies more optimism in its author than it does comedy and that its final result out to be the reinforcement of the onlooker’s brightest opinions of the human animal. Arthur Miller also believes that tragedy requires a balance between what is possible and what s impossible because of the perfectibility of man. He believes “tragic right” is a condition of life where the human personality is able to flower and revitalize itself, where “tragic wrong” is the condition that suppresses man and prevents the flowing of his love and creative instinct. Arthur Miller states that the morality of tragedy and its lesson are a man’s destruction in the attempt posits a wrong or an evil in his