The Crucible was written in 1953, by Arthur Miller, a famous American playwright. The play is about the Salem witch trials. If you are not familiar with the Salem witch trials, they occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, during the late 17th century and involved the execution of many women accused of witchcraft.
The Crucible The dictionary describes the word crucible as a container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures, usually done in order to purify the metal. In the book 'the crucible' the people of Salem are purified through the Salem witch trials. Examples of people are John Proctor, Elizabeth - his wife and Hale. The main example of purification though is seen in John Proctor, starting as …show more content…
Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” could not follow the change of time and became obsessed with the old values of success dream in the past and Joe a realist, in All my sons, got along rather well ,even though he too is influenced by old values to some extent . At the time of his birth, Miller's father owned a successful clothing business and the family lived in a Harlem neighborhood. In 1929, the family business failed as a result of the depression and moved to Brooklyn. Miller was a very active child and hardly spent any time reading or studying. He only took an interest in academics in his final year of school, too late to make the grades to be accepted into college. Miller worked various jobs after high school, including one as a salesperson that inspired his later play, Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller's principal characters are motivated by an obsession to justify themselves. They fix their identities through radical acts of ego-assertion. The conflict between father and son prefigures tragedy's revolutionary question when the child affirms his independence after confronting an intolerant parental authority. Later the mature hero, in life and in art, directs his protest against restrictive forces more potent than the father's for "in truth the parent, powerful as he appears, is not the source of injustice but its deputy".2 There is no denying that the father-son conflict is an old and also a new theme in Literature. The relationship between father and son in literature takes on a psychological quality just as explained in Freud’s “Oedipus
The Crucible The dictionary describes the word crucible as a container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures, usually done in order to purify the metal. In the book 'the crucible' the people of Salem are purified through the Salem witch trials. Examples of people are John Proctor, Elizabeth - his wife and Hale. The main example of purification though is seen in John Proctor, starting as …show more content…
Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” could not follow the change of time and became obsessed with the old values of success dream in the past and Joe a realist, in All my sons, got along rather well ,even though he too is influenced by old values to some extent . At the time of his birth, Miller's father owned a successful clothing business and the family lived in a Harlem neighborhood. In 1929, the family business failed as a result of the depression and moved to Brooklyn. Miller was a very active child and hardly spent any time reading or studying. He only took an interest in academics in his final year of school, too late to make the grades to be accepted into college. Miller worked various jobs after high school, including one as a salesperson that inspired his later play, Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller's principal characters are motivated by an obsession to justify themselves. They fix their identities through radical acts of ego-assertion. The conflict between father and son prefigures tragedy's revolutionary question when the child affirms his independence after confronting an intolerant parental authority. Later the mature hero, in life and in art, directs his protest against restrictive forces more potent than the father's for "in truth the parent, powerful as he appears, is not the source of injustice but its deputy".2 There is no denying that the father-son conflict is an old and also a new theme in Literature. The relationship between father and son in literature takes on a psychological quality just as explained in Freud’s “Oedipus