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When placed in life or death situations humans always resort to our programed will to live. In doing so humans resort to their primal instincts for survival and will do anything to ensure their continued existence, even going to the extreme of killing another person. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Abigail’s rebellion against the strict society in Salem leads her to lie against other people, ultimately condemning them to death. However, Miller creates an ambigram as the audience and Abigail…

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…

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…

In the “Crucible”by Arthur Miller, the setting of the play is Salem Massachusetts in 1692.Reverend Parris is a very ambitious man that only cares about himself.The most important thing to him is his reputation.According to the text “We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house."This proves that Reverend Parris only cares about his reputation and job” He uses his daughter to accuse people whose property he covets.Reverend Parris wants to be a very…

Thesis: The director’s intentions of The Crucible, were to present a slight unrealistic explanation of the Puritan society and culture mainly to attract his audience. This statement can be proven through the plot, characters, and soundtrack. Through the plot of The Crucible, it shows a main idea of fear, a fear of one’s reputation that corrupts the characters to act in a selfish way. In the beginning of the film, it starts off with a young girl, Betty, lying in her bed unable to move.…

In his play, The Crucible, published in 1953 writer Arthur Miller used the time period of the Salem Witch trials to illustrate the conflict during the Red Scare, led by Joseph McCarthy. In his modern-day parable, Miller emphasized the theme of Jealousy and resentment through is dramatization of various conflicts within the Salem community, miller opened twentieth century eyes to the witch hunt conducted by senator Joe McCarthy. Using the motifs of power struggles accusations, and confessions,…

Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The noose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led”. The Crucible by Arthur Miller adequately reinforces this statement. A mob knows no justice and the townspeople of Salem had an agenda of vengeance. Throughout the play characters such as Elizabeth and Rebecca Nurse were wrongly accused of witchcraft without the proper evidence. In the midst of chaos, it was clear that power had no official title and anyone could be a victim of its…