Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” is about the Salem witch trials in 1962, where puritan girls were accusing innocent men and women in Salem of witchery. This led to the execution of twenty-one people and jailing of hundred-fifty people. The people of Salem, Massachusetts were of Puritan faith, which stressed the biblical teaching that witches were real and deadly. Characters in author Miller’s play “The Crucible” shows the controversy in Salem during the witch trails of 1962.…
The Crucible, a play written in 1957 by Arthur Miller, is a reproduction of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts, where many people were falsely accused of witchcraft. As a result of the trials, nineteen people were executed on account of witchcraft. In The Crucible, reputation is an important aspect to the people of Salem because since Salem is a small town, people with good and bad reputations are known around town. The worry of saving a good reputation affects the actions taken by individuals on various occasions.…
The onstage debut of Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible in January of 1953 was not notorious for historical value. Historical accuracy which was a principal focus throughout the text, provides the readers insight to the dark times that lurked in Salem. The cast founded from historical figures of the Salem Witch Trials, convey the fear rooted from the members of society who took advantage of the power they obtained. In the town, those who gained power in a period of time where life was recognized for being rule oriented, often became struck with the aspect of control. Miller emphasizes that by awarding someone power, results often demonstrate pain is used to exploit control they are given access too, and they eventually long for supremacy…
It is a cold and blissful night in the sad civilization of Salem, Massachusetts with the sound of young girls giggling in the distance as they dance and sing with joy. ‘Round and ‘Round a campfire they roam as they tribute those who have died in the past, trying to bring them back to life. The fog is rising to bring a new day full of accusations, death, and revenge. In the Crucible, Arthur Miller tells the tale of those who are too fearful to speak out against the lies that are being told by Abigail, the maid who has to seek revenge for not getting what she wants. With the threat of being accused of witchcraft, the town of Salem is walking on eggshells to please an insecure girl and her tribe of liars that she control with a single word.…
The Crucible’s Blind Truth Arthur Miller’s portrayal of mass hysteria accurately depicts the enormity of unjudicial falsehoods from a communal perspective. The Crucible’s setting is in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 when the controversial witch trials occurred. Parallel similarities arise to the way in which the Red Scare affected the people of the 1950s. Many of which became fully blind to truth of who was at fault for this mass hysteria. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor, Judge Danforth, and Abigail Williams are largely blind to the truth that holds them back from achieving true justice.…
Salem, Massachusetts is known for the Salem witch trials. The trials tested the skills and characters of those accused of being a witch. Though the test often consisted of fire and water, if the tension was high enough, a mere accusation had the accused hanged. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is mostly a typical story of the Salem Witch Trials with all of the tension included. The difference lies in the fact that it is not only the accused being tested under pressure.…
American Playwright, Arthur Miller, in his allegorical play, The Crucible, recounts a story of the Salem witch trials which took place between 1692 and 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts. Miller’s purpose is to narrate a fictional account of a story of the Salem witch trials in third-person omniscient as a metaphorical statement against the spread of McCarthyism during the 1950s in America. In order to appeal to similar feelings and experience in his audience, a critical tone is adopted. Miller begins his allegorical play by acknowledging that John Proctor tries to obtain an understanding among parties in a discussion by pointing out simple facts. In Act 1 with Reverend Parris and further in the text with Putnam Miller displays this.…
The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller in 1952, tells of the Salem Witch Trials and what the Puritan people endured. The story mainly focuses on the accusers, afflicted, and the accused showing how they got away with what they stated to the court as well as how the accused plead their innocence. The Crucible follows very distinct parts of the Salem Witch Trials, some of which are very accurate, and others which are morphed to fit the storyline. Miller changes the details or leave them out in order to make The Crucible more logical and understanding to the reader on top of making it more interesting to add to the plot. .Although…
The Crucible portrays the events of the Salem witch trials and the havoc it has created upon a puritanical society. In Arthur Miller’s play, panic and hysteria of witchcraft fall upon the whole community. Within this particular assembly of characters, there are some unforgettable characters whose actions can, in a sense, change the town. These characters — Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor — stand out among the rest. Selfish traits and actions of revenge grow in Abigail’s heart while selflessness and forgiveness lie in Elizabeth’s heart.…
The crucible was a play that was written by the man Arthur Miller, this play was based and surrounded on the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials happened in 1692 but Arthur had written this play to show the familiarity in which unfair laws and justice were served in the Second red scare. Witches were on trial in Salem, communists were also pegged for being a danger into the society in this point of time. People were accused of breaking laws that were just absurd and then the worst punishment they could have received was death. In the play he shows the detail of how people were blaming each other just to cover themselves from the powerful people in the justice system.…
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is mainly about the hysteria around the eruption of the witchcraft trials that took place in Salem in 1692. Salem was a peaceful ordinary town until it was destroyed by the chaos resulted from the wrongful allegations of Salem citizens for witchcraft. The crucible demonstrates how individuals driven by their motivations can spread hysteria with the rest of the society to release their repressed resentments. Miller cleverly created a climate of hysteria to show how paranoia and fear that dominant his characters can escalate. Driven by their hidden desires, young people started performing cunning rituals, which gradually became a superstitious tradition to reach their goals.…
The Salem Witch Trials in the 1690’s brought sweeping fear across the state of Massachusetts. The fear that satan could be lurking around every corner plagued many, but there was no greater fear than that of being accused of witchcraft. The crime of witchcraft was so horrendous that it was punishable by death. This constant scare caused many to turn on one another, in the hopes of saving themselves. Arthur Miller 's play, The Crucible highlights this deceitful society, and portrayed how many characters responded to fear.…
In the play, The Crucible, there are many different elements to the plot that make the excerpt unique. Arthur Miller uses the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials to show how manipulative people can be by only using their words. He demonstrates elements like mass hysteria, revenge, and superstition to express how easily people can hurt and turn on each other without physical harm. MASS HYSTERIA One of Arthur Miller’s key elements in The Crucible is mass hysteria. By definition, mass hysteria is a condition affecting a large group of people, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness.…
The Crucible The Crucible is a play written in 1952 by Arthur Miller. This book relates to what we have studied this semester because it is centered around the Salem Witchcraft Trials that occurred in Massachusetts in 1692. My junior year of high school, we were required to read both the play and the movie and it is something that I will never forget. The scene that always come to my mind when I think of The Crucible is when the opening scene where Tituba and some of the girls are practicing witchcraft around a fire late at night in the middle of the woods. I also think of the end scene in which 19 people were hanged.…
The violent hysteria of an entire town, a test of good versus evil, and an insight for the anti-communist craze of America’s Red Scare, was three metaphors for this time in history. The title of his play has meaning. It not only conveys what happened in Salem, but also throughout the history of the 1900’s. Many terrifying events happened during Arthur Miller’s lifetime. The title, “The Crucible” and the metaphors, relate to an attempt to destroy and make something’s new and pure again, but the reality is it may not succeed in doing…