The Crucible by Arthur Miller provides a historical fiction account of the Salem witch trials. The play, written in the 1950’s, has many similarities to the McCarthyism that swept across the United States at the time. Arthur Miller uses many different literary elements to tell the story of the trials including Irony, Allusions and Archetypes. One element used in The Crucible is Irony. “Irony is a literary technique that involves a difference between appearance and reality, expectations and actions, and meaning and intention.…
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a representation of the Red Scare in the 1950s, which greatly affected America and ultimately his career. As a writer, he was accused of communism, and it cost him his career. The United States government in the 1950’s had a complete loss of control. The Red Scare was a time when a small suspicion could lead to the destruction of someone's life.…
The Crucible- who’s the blame The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was a play that dealt with many false trials in Salem, Massachusetts that condemned many innocent beings to death, leading the country to its first severe trial. These trails are performed to drive Satan out of Salem so that Satan could not corrupt more of God’s children . Arthur Miller created this play to show how similar it was to the Red Scare. During the 1950’s the government tried to drive out communist in our country, just like in the play where the higher government tried to rule out the Salem witches. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was John Proctor’s flaw, lust and pride that led him to be most responsible for the tragedies that happened…
The Crucible is a play based on the 17th century Salem witch hunts. It is also a parable for the events in McCarthy’s era. The play is about people who are wrongly accused of helping the devil. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller and was first performed in 1953, New York. It is set in a puritanical society where the people believe in hard work and little luxury.…
The Crucible, a historical fiction play written by Arthur Miller, focusses on the horrific Salem Witch Trials that ran rampage in 1692. The disastrous events which took place shattered the Puritan society, and destroyed many of the religious values that the Puritans hold so dear. Even though this play was written in 1953, Arthur Miller includes many stylistic devices to give the play an authentic feel. Miller uses a plethora of these devices in order to make readers feel as if they are actually in the 1690s, however, the most prominent devices are syntax and diction, and biblical allusions. The syntax and diction that Arthur Miller uses in The Crucible tricks readers into thinking that they are actually reading a piece from the 1600s.…
The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1953 as a counterattack for being forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, at the height of the Red Scare era. The Crucible, is about the Salem witch trials and how people accused each other of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, without having proper evidence. In many of the cases people were accusing others solely because they disliked them. Much similar to The Red Scare, an era of mass hysteria in which people became obsessed and paranoid over communism in the United States. In The Crucible, people were being accused of witchcraft, and during the Red Scare people were being accused of communism.…
Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a dramatized and partially fictionalized play that was written in 1953. It is a partially fictionalized play based off of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1992 to 1993. I see Miller’s play as somewhat laughable due to the over exaggerations thats the girls go through when trying to accuse someone as a witch. Miller wrote this play to expose the dangers of judging people with different mindsets or beliefs. Miller portrayed that such illogical reasoning is dangerous and counterproductive.…
The Crucible is a suspenseful, filled with evil, and naive characters play written by Arthur Miller. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the late 1600’s based on the Salem…
Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, expressed many different characters with dissimilar intentions and motivations in great length. These dramatic emotions tied along with greed and desire allowed this playwright to come to life and create an overall exhilarating read for the audience. Most characters in this play have important roles that demonstrate their true incentive in what they will get out of this huge mess of hysteria. The character of Abigail is very interesting to touch upon.…
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1952, was a play about the horrors of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the 1600’s. In order to persuade America that this was just a repeat of history, he made direct comparisons from events that had happened in the past, such as Using this method, he was able to show us how horrible and unreasonable these events were, and why we should not repeat what had happened in Salem, during the cold war. The Crucible is effective in proving to people that both the red scare and the Salem Witch trials are similar using . In the end, Arthur's story was a huge influence on the world today, and reminds us that to convict anyone of anything, we must give them a fair trial. Whether they’re being convicted…
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.…
Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy, The Crucible, is an excellent play for high school juniors to read. Similar to the Declaration of Independence, The Crucible changed the way that people looked at an event in United States history. The complex characters…
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible during the period of time where Americans were scouring for communists hidden within their society. Miller reflects upon those times a few decades later, explaining that “[i]n those years, our thought processes were becoming so magical, so paranoid, that to imagine writing a play about this environment was like trying to pick one's teeth with a ball of wool.” He compares writing about the Red Scare to picking teeth with wool to depict the ineffectiveness of both tasks. Like how wool simply brushes the enamel, authors writing about the Red Scare could only convey the hysteria they felt, and not objective details. Miller therefore states that his memories of those times were largely polluted by fear.…
As today’s world continually grows to be obsessed with the media, the influence that media has over society is also growing. Today’s society is obsessed with knowing things growing the interest of today’s people in the media. Whether it is social media apps or networks, media websites, websites or media television networks, people today constantly want to know what is going on in the world. Due to society’s has a constant need to know what is going on in today’s world the media, in all of its many forms, plays a crucial role in informing the average American person, however, due this media bias this influence of the media is not always a positive one.…
No matter what, media is consistently present all the time. It is a part of our daily lives no matter where we turn. On social media, at the dining hall, lying in bed – media has found a home and it has no plans on leaving. We are always consuming media, whether we are trying to or not. When we do consume media, either intentionally or unintentionally, most of the time it can leave an impact.…