Crucible Essay

How would you feel if you were accused of witchcraft? The Crucible accused multiple innocent people of witchcraft and majority of those that were accused were puritans, and those puritans were strong within their faith. Most people have zero mercy on one another and wanted to save themselves. What would you do ? The author of The Crucible and many other pieces of American Literature was Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller has won multiple awards for his pieces including Tony awards. Some of Miller’s…

“Cops have shot nearly 807 people this year, and the year isn’t even over yet” (Calacal). The aspect of human nature creates sadness, mourning, anger, and violence. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, and in the “Black Lives Matter Movement”, characters and people are performing violent acts to get people's attention to try and be regarded. Abigail is a girl, in Arthur Miller’s play, that was found dancing in the woods to attempt to get the people they liked to like them back. When Abigail…

The Crucible Essay The word crucible has three different meanings that each contributes its own metaphorical meaning to the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. A crucible is a piece of equipment for melting substances in a laboratory, a severe test, or a situation in which concentrated forces cause change. Arthur Miller chose During the Salem witch trials in the late 1600’s, people were brought to the court, accused of witchcraft, and then were either sentenced to death or forced to sell out…

take place in Arthur Miller’s 1953 play, The Crucible. Because of this unusual trend, the following question is raised: To what degree do the political crashes and religious scares in Europe relate to the events that occurred in Salem Witch Trials as represented in The Crucible? Dating back to before America…

Prior to discussion of the values of Puritan roots and significance of the crucible which the play adopted as its title, the events that took place in Salem seemed to be a mass hysteria over a “trend” fear of sorts. The title of the play, The Crucible, was a clever choice Miller made during a conversation with his scientist friend who was experimenting with a crucible, a heating process that purifies chemicals. Much like the characters of the play, any substance that goes into the pot comes out…

The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a self-contained play about a horrible period in America. Miller wrote the play during the time of senator McCarthy. McCarthy who was an anti-communist conducted with special congressional committees highly controversial investigations intended to find and execute communist sympathizer in the united states if they didn’t cooperate with them. The Crucible opened on Thursday October 19 in the Aaron Davis Hall located in the City College of New York. The…

values put forward in the form of maxims and proverbs”. (Aristotle)The thought behind the crucible is at the time Arthur Miller is writing this it is the red scare of 1953. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible as a way to teach people about the upcoming hardships they were going to face as a result of the Red Scare. Using the Salem Witch Trials as an allegory of the period in the 50s called McCarthyism. The crucible was an eye opener for many of the people who read it. The witches served as a symbol…

The Crucible The Crucible shows many themes throughout the play. Guilt, revenge, power, and integrity are just a few themes shown. All these themes play a huge role throughout the play. Guilt is portrayed through many of the characters throughout the play. This is shown through characters like John Proctor and Mary Warren. John Proctor and his problems with Abigail Williams are a big part of the play. Not until about the end of the play does Proctor start feeling guilty. Proctor realizes, in…

The Crucible Essay The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the red scare in the McCarthyism era because on The Crucible people get accused of witchcraft as the same as people whom were accused of communism. People in The Crucible did all they could to reject the false accusation of witchcraft what was dealt upon them, but everytime they denied the false fact, they would be tortured until they come clean, same went for communism when they denied of being a communist they would be…

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, there’s an underlying metaphor throughout the play. The crucible has two meanings, one being a witchcraft trial and the other being a small container used to heat and melt metals and other substances. It’s ironic that Miller used “crucible” in the title of the play because in the small town of Salem, things began to “brew” when the idea of witchcraft came into the play. When people began to be accused of witchcraft, evidently the violent hysteria aroused.…