Memorable Day Essay

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller writes about individuals accusing others for their own welfare within a puritan community. Such accusations caused a period of mass hysteria, resulting in the death of many innocent people. Miller’s play is set in Boston, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. In The Crucible, neighbors were accusing neighbors without hard evidence, but with social motives. Salem townspeople are motivated to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft due to lust, fear, and…

The Crucible The Crucible tells a story about horrid events that took place during the Salem Witch Trails. There many innocent lives lost and many people to blame for this tragedy. For instance, Hathorne and Danforth could be a fault for the deaths merely because the lack of sanity. why all the deaths occurred in the Salem witch trials. Although many people played a part in this fatal story, Abigail Williams plays the biggest role as to why all the tragic deaths occurred in the small…

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller broke through in 1953 discussing the conflicting time of the Salem Witch Trials. During this time people were treated unequally if they were being accused of being a so called “ witch”. A leader of the accusations was Abigail Williams the niece of the town's preacher Reverend Parris. Abigail was peculiar young girl with a conscious mind and a cold heart. Her specific goal was to have Elizabeth Proctor accused and hanged in front of Salem. Imagine…

The Crucible, a play written in 1957 by Arthur Miller, is a reproduction of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts, where many people were falsely accused of witchcraft. As a result of the trials, nineteen people were executed on account of witchcraft. In The Crucible, reputation is an important aspect to the people of Salem because since Salem is a small town, people with good and bad reputations are known around town. The worry of saving a good…

Imperfections in The Crucible The past is brought back to like in Nicholas Hytner’s adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The movie tries to portray the emotions that ran rampant in Salem during the witch trials, but has many shortcomings in reaching their goal. The movie is a dramatized retelling of the witch trials that occurred in Salem. The movie begins with a scene of girls dancing in the forest around a fire at night. The main character, John Proctor, undergoes many challenges in…

Josue Madrigal Mrs. Gilmore English 16 September 2015 A Break with Charity and Crucible Essay Throughout the course of history people who have lied will be persecuted, but giving the situation lying is justifiable. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, we see that many characters lie throughout the books so save themselves and others by agreeing to lie in order to save their lives and to claim falsely that they are a witch;…

John Proctor as a Tragic Hero Arthur Miller portrays John Proctor as as tragic hero in “The Crucible”. Proctor was an important figure in the community and he was respected by almost everyone, but he also had lots of pride in his name and reputation. His character, as will be explained, was very contradicting. John Proctor was an important man in Salem. He even helped build the church (which he only attended 26 times in 17 months). He was a well respected man with what seemed like great…

“The Crucible”; written by Arthur Miller, represents a basic tragedy in literature. A tragedy is a type of structure the author uses that moves the reader with a character that obtains a fatal flaw. Tragic heros’ go through many predicaments throughout the play. One of the main characters in “The Crucible”, John Proctor; symbolizes the tragic hero of this book. Mr. Proctor relates to a tragic hero because of his tragic flaw, his character makes a choice between life and death, and…

Zach Bugg Mr. Carroll English 3 21 November 2014 The Crucible/McCarthyism Allegory The Crucible took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the Spring of 1692. The play The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1953. In McCarthyism, people feared communism. The Soviet Union was growing in power and the threat of a nuclear holocaust was on the forefront of American minds. So Joseph McCarthy went around accusing anyone that he thought could be a communist. In The Crucible, the girls went around…

Throughout the Crucible John Proctor continuously struggles to be a good person in the eyes of himself, and God due to this he constantly changes and evolves as a character. In act one of the Crucible John Proctor is known as a good man who is respected throughout Salem, but privately he was going through multiple difficulties. One problem he had was Abigail. Proctor had an affair with Abigail, and was trying to move on so that he could fix his relationship with his wife. The affair impacted…