Daniel Levitin

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…

Why I Wrote the Crucible Analytical Essay “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller represents the theme of how small things can turn huge dramatically and in a very little amount of time. The story is based on real life events and McCarthyism and Communism during the 19th Century. Miller had written an essay on why he wrote the Crucible and I have concluded that the Key elements that drove Miler to write the Crucible was history, human philosophy, and the Supernatural. The history of Salem in…

In Arthur Miller’s screenplay, The Crucible, some of the information throughout the screenplay was changed from the original play by Miller. Some of the effects may have been included to add more of a visual to occurrences between acts that had only been mentioned through dialogue in the actual play. Although it may be easier for an audience to remember the information, the adding of visual scenes that were not original to the script is not necessary to follow along. Therefore, I do not believe…

Imagine you were in a situation between life and death and in order to save your life you needed to lie. This very thing occurred in The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is a story about the small puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. In this small town every rumor is spread at the speed of light and when girls were found in the woods “dancing” by the local reverend that’s when the talk of witchcraft blew up the whole town. Many innocent people were accused for…

Miller's play The Crucible was written in 1953 and was first performed later that year. The play is a relatively fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that took place in the late 1600s. The Crucible was a relatively enjoyable play because its ability to be relatable. The Crucible is relatable to modern audiences because of the similarity of conflicts, characteristics, and people's actions. In act 1 of The Crucible the conflict is established. It opens…

1. What is your overall reaction to this article? In the article The black family in the age of mass incarceration, was overall and amazing article. A lot of people see the “blacks” as drug dealers or murder or look at them in a different way then they look at white. Reading this article gave proof of that. Showing that even the presidents of the united states believed that the reason there was crime was because of the “blacks”. This article really opened my eyes to the political view on why…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about early America during the witch trials. In the Crucible a antagonist, Abigail Williams, had accused and had deadly sins and her dark heart blam people of witch craft, she also wanted to have an affair with a married man. One of the most responsible deadly sin in this play was lust and greed. Both play a key role in the story. Lust is what Abigail had, greed is what a lot of people had in Salem and some had lust and other deadly sins. Lust is an…

The Crucible and 12 Angry Men are two differing plays that unite in the aspect of the justice system. In both plays, we have the conflict that the accused are seen as guilty before the evidence is thoroughly looked into. A difference that sets the two plays apart is that the young girls accused of being witches are not given as much of a chance as the young boy accused of murder. This is due to the differing time periods in which both plays took place in. These similarities and differences are…

Sylvia Plath clearly embeds the story of Esther Greenwood into the political situation of the time. The Bell Jar introduces its setting by referring to the execution of the Rosenbergs. In the summer of 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of and electrocuted for espionage. It was believed that they had passed secret US military information on nuclear weapons on to Soviet Intelligence. The fear of the so-called “red scare” was omnipresent, and it was believed that more and more people…

The Witch Trials This dramatic play that was created by Author Millers has been inspired throughout many. What play is it, one may ask? It deals with a heavy conscience, and a world of lies and bitter distaste for revenge, the play is The Crucible. The Crucible expressed many things seen in the real world today, in the sense that it includes revenge, hatred, the conscience, and most importantly sagacious actions taken by people. One of the most important points of view that the author tries to…