Crucible Analysis
“The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller is a play written about a time period where religion dominated society; the story took place during a period of time where a scare of witches took place. The play which seems to be pointing out an event that occurred long after his time (around the 1950s), actually relates to the current day events in his life and even relates to our current time period. In his essay on why he wrote “The Crucible,” Miller writes a play relating to his current life event to an audience of mainly American citizens dealing with the corrupt court system in place. Arthur Miller’s play which seems like a simple story about the Salem Witchcraft Trials highlighted the deep rifts of society. Miller wrote the play …show more content…
Miller argues about ignorance of society or in other words moral superiority. During Miller’s lifetime, he experienced something similar as he watched President Truman and high-level officials in power removing people and convicting them of communism in unjust or unconstitutional ways. Miller states his experience on the seventh paragraph of his essay “Why I Wrote The Crucible” with “he was outraged with the allegation of widespread Communist infiltration of the government...Truman felt it necessary to institute loyalty boards of his own.”, this act was no different from the Salem Witch Trials as his board was questioned or interrogated with questions nearly impossible to answer just like the “noose interrogation” used during the Salem Witch Trials. The other problem with moral superiority was that so many individuals sought to resolve the conflict by insisting on a “truth” and many were guided by their religious or morals principles; this led to such people seeking to persuade others through their conviction of the truth. If your idea or opinion either differed or did not support either side you were considered a witch or in this case a communist, therefore so many innocent people who did not seek to get involved were lured in. In the play a character by the name of John Proctor tries to stay out of the witch hunt and speak reason and logic against the board but all the …show more content…
Act 3 line 1153, John Proctor’s argument was “For them quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black heart this be a fraud…”, John attempts to denounce the legitimacy of the girls’ claim on witches with this argument directed at Judge Danforth. The end result of his argument was him being portrayed as have “compacted with the devil” because he decided to speak against the ideas of the court, this was no different from the Red Scare, anything said against the court made you a witch. When Miller had an opening night for the play on January 22, 1953 he
“The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller is a play written about a time period where religion dominated society; the story took place during a period of time where a scare of witches took place. The play which seems to be pointing out an event that occurred long after his time (around the 1950s), actually relates to the current day events in his life and even relates to our current time period. In his essay on why he wrote “The Crucible,” Miller writes a play relating to his current life event to an audience of mainly American citizens dealing with the corrupt court system in place. Arthur Miller’s play which seems like a simple story about the Salem Witchcraft Trials highlighted the deep rifts of society. Miller wrote the play …show more content…
Miller argues about ignorance of society or in other words moral superiority. During Miller’s lifetime, he experienced something similar as he watched President Truman and high-level officials in power removing people and convicting them of communism in unjust or unconstitutional ways. Miller states his experience on the seventh paragraph of his essay “Why I Wrote The Crucible” with “he was outraged with the allegation of widespread Communist infiltration of the government...Truman felt it necessary to institute loyalty boards of his own.”, this act was no different from the Salem Witch Trials as his board was questioned or interrogated with questions nearly impossible to answer just like the “noose interrogation” used during the Salem Witch Trials. The other problem with moral superiority was that so many individuals sought to resolve the conflict by insisting on a “truth” and many were guided by their religious or morals principles; this led to such people seeking to persuade others through their conviction of the truth. If your idea or opinion either differed or did not support either side you were considered a witch or in this case a communist, therefore so many innocent people who did not seek to get involved were lured in. In the play a character by the name of John Proctor tries to stay out of the witch hunt and speak reason and logic against the board but all the …show more content…
Act 3 line 1153, John Proctor’s argument was “For them quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black heart this be a fraud…”, John attempts to denounce the legitimacy of the girls’ claim on witches with this argument directed at Judge Danforth. The end result of his argument was him being portrayed as have “compacted with the devil” because he decided to speak against the ideas of the court, this was no different from the Red Scare, anything said against the court made you a witch. When Miller had an opening night for the play on January 22, 1953 he