Crucible Essay

The One That Got Away “You never know how much you love someone until you watch them love someone else” (Pinterest). In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams falls in love with John Proctor after being his maid but, for John to love her back, death would be forced upon his wife. Since Abigail Williams is motivated by her love for John Proctor, her decision to sabotage John and Elizabeth’s marriage creates death for John and many others by the end of the play. Abigail’s love…

Crucible is a kind of tool used to melt metals in under high temperatures; it can also mean the torment and mental pain people endure under high pressure. In the book “the Crucible”, American author Arthur Miller described an absurd chaos happened in a religious town named Salem. By naming the play “The Crucible”, Miller helped readers to see though human when reading to what different villagers react and the title also implied some ideas in later history of United States. “The Crucible” had a…

always face their fears? What is The Crucible Aming to tell the audiences today? The Crucible by Arthur Miller written in 1953 has a lot of Hysteria and fear in it. Abigail and the other girls were saying that some individuals are involved in witchcraft. The Crucible is aiming to tell the audiences that people should be more careful when it comes to hysteria and how there can be awful things that can happen when we do get caught up in hysteria. A Crucible is a severe test or trial, which is…

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in order to give Americans a frightening mirror to stare into, with the hope that it might shock them out of their paranoid delusion. In his reflections on his work and society, he says “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable.” The identification of Americans resistance to accept their own mistakes shows a core problem that…

In the case of most living things, a lot of reasoning behind actions stems from vengeance. Human beings often act out fits of anger and jealousy in the form of revenge. Vengeance is something that is very prominent in The Crucible. Arthur Miller has shown the people residing in the town of Salem, Massachusetts to represent their tendencies for vengeance in many ways such very blatantly seeking it, setting a certain tone in conversation, and other subtle feelings that you pick up on while reading…

Looking for witches, you will find some in Salem, Massachusetts. In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was about the Salem witch trials. The underlining message in the play was of McCarthyism in the 1950s. When McCarthy said he had a list of 205 people in high position that are communist. In the play man cheats on his wife with a young girl making her fall completely in love with him. She and her friends dance in the woods, which was forbidden and are caught. The girls later claim witchcraft…

you are able to get in the world, or even the people that you are involved with. It can affect how people interact with you. It can also affect how people can trust you. This is definitely true when it comes to Arthur Miller’s brilliant play, The Crucible. The whole play is about people trying to save their reputation. The characters are so caught up in their own reputation that they are unable to look outside their window and see the epidemic that is unfolding around…

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is an allegory, meaning it can be interpreted to reveal hidden meanings, usually political or moral ones. This all happened during the Salem Witch trials, where people were initially scared of the idea and spread of Communism. This made people believe that anyone could be a communist, and this ended up making people believe others were witches. The people of Salem went around pointing fingers at others to take the blame off of them that they could be witches. They…

Have you ever been accused of something you did not do since someone did not want to take responsibility for their actions? Usually, this happens between siblings at a young age, but in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, this happened between a group of teenage girls and a huge amount of good citizens. These girls were doing abnormal actions, which they blamed on the witches of Salem to save themselves from getting in trouble and running their name in the city. Why did they choose those certain…

reflection of The Crucible "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (Orwell, Animal Farm). In this quote, George Orwell clearly depicts the essential idea of communism, which is also one of the driving forces of The Crucible and the McCarthy courts. The Crucible was initially written to expose the McCarthy courts for what they truly were, a huge injustice within the American justice system. It is humorously ironic as to how both the Salem court in The Crucible and…