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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…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy Era because there were so many wrongful accusations and there were unfair punishments. There was chaos caused by the false accusations in The Crucible and the McCarthy Era. The chaos caused by those false accusation caused even more false accusations. Those false accusations caused innocent people to be put to death. Joseph McCarthy said he had a piece of paper with peoples names on it that he was accusing of…

if he admitted anything, Abigail had power over him. Yes, Abigail might get in trouble but so would he. And possibly his wife. Mary Warren, the current servant for John Proctor was trying to also tell people who Abigail really is. Because Abigail has a higher power over Mary Warren, Mary isn’t successful and ends up getting blamed for witchcraft. When Mary Warren swears she never saw familiar spirits, Abigail says there is no truth in it.…

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory of McCarthyism. The Crucible is centered around people lying. The town of Salem is Puritan, and it is believed by the Puritans that all lies are bad. However, The Crucible shows harmless lies being told for the protection of others or oneself, contrasted by lies that are taking others’ lives. A principal theme in The Crucible is that not all lies are malicious. John Proctor is generally honest and full of good intentions. Most of the lies he tells…

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, portrays dire consequences when its characters pursue their own personal interests at the expense of the common good of society. This is evident throughout with characters such as Abigail Williams. The actions taken lead to the demise and suffering of many other characters. The actions of Abigail Williams are invoked due to the lust she feels to John Proctor. Her affair with him, and then his rejection of her, leads her to dancing in the woods with house…

In order to understand how the productions drastically change the discussion of sexual harassment within the play, we need to look at how the directors take away the gendered powers of the sub settings through lighting, props and music. For example, we see from the play the convent and whorehouse are spaces dedicated to women and empower them in lecherous sexuality or loyal chastity. Meanwhile, the prison is where both genders meet and are at the same level because of how everyone sins. What the…

Evil can be found anywhere in the world, and if people do not notice it, their lives can be negatively impacted by it. The novels Sold by Patricia McCormick and Night by Elie Wisel, have characters that face evil situations that make them stronger as a person. By examining the novels Night and Sold, we can see that the characters were surrounded by evil that was hard to s could overcome, which is important because evil is everywhere and some people recognize it and overcome it, but others don’t…

Danforth is a lacking character because he put the needs of the government ahead than caring for his people. Danforth refuses to free Proctor in the Crucibles,but other people likes him even though he finds and contain massive evidence from innocent people. His reasoning is that releasing them will make the courts look bad because they only executed a small amount of innocent people which even makes the court look more bad. Danforth shows the tendency to want to avoid making the court and…

Task One: Quote Analysis from Act IV. “Because it is MY NAME!!....” Return to this section of text and provide an analysis of its significance. This quote is really important because it shows the goodness of John Proctor. He said this at very end when Danforth was trying to make him confess that he saw other people with devil, and if he confess that his life will be safe. But he didn’t agree because he don’t want to live and let other people died which he knew are innocent. Select one other…

The events that happen in The Salem Trial in 1962 were tragic, and it led to men and women being hanged. These events had court trials where magistrate decided if the suspect was guilty or innocent. The trials were termed as unfair since the procedures used were not fair to the defendants and immoral lifestyle is what made the accused witches seem as if they were guilty of witchcraft. The evidence that was used by the court was grouped into various categories. Initially, spectral evidence…