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    Who’s Arthur miller Created by Tiffany Carvalho of Dubiski Career high school Who is Arthur Miller and why should you care? Well first he was considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Born in Harlem, New York in 1915 later died at the age of 89 in 2005 without delay Arthur had a writing career of 70 years. His first great success was “Death of Salesman”. It opened on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize and to mention many Tonys. Likewise with “All my…

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    Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17, 1915. He was raised into a rather well-to-do household until his family faced utter devastation by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. This influenced them to fire their chauffeur and move from Manhattan to Brooklyn. After graduating high school, Miller worked various jobs to raise enough money to attend the University of Michigan. While he was in college, Miller wrote for the student paper and completed No Villain, his first play. He also…

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    During the Salem Witch Trials, a variety of people were tried for witchcraft. At the time of the trials, much panic and scapegoating ensued, as demonstrated in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Miller’s play displays the different character behaviours as a result of the hysteria and paranoia of the time. As it turns out, the “witchcraft” these people were being tried for did not exist. However bizarre the idea of this magic was, it did not stop people from turning upon one another if it would…

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    Abigail Williams outline: The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1953, and was based off of the Red Scare that took place in America from 1947 to 1957. The Salem witch trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts from 1692 through 1693. Abigail Williams was one of the main accusers in the trials which led to arrests, imprisonments, and deaths of one hundred and fifty people during this time. Without Abigail’s vengeful, selfish, and manipulative personality, the play does not exist. Abigail…

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    Evils In The Crucible

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    great a piece. This man is killing his neighbors for their land!“ (Miller 37) Giles sees how Putnam is using the murder of his neighboring landowners for his own selfish greed for land. Putnam also has envy driving his hatred towards those who had fruitful marriages blessed with children “ I am one of nine sons; the Putnam seed have peopled this province. And yet I have but one child left of eight—and now she shrivels!” (Miller 29) Putnam believes that Rebecca Nurse, the woman who was a midwife…

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    The Crucible, a play written by Arthur miller, is a story about the multiple conflicts that take place during the Salem which trials in Massachusetts. These conflicts featured in the play center primarily on the ruling church’s religious beliefs surrounding witchcraft at the time, and that it was forbidden to promote the practice of witchcraft in any way, with the punishment usually being a death sentence. Among the many conflicts featured in the play, one of them is the conflict around the…

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    Evil In The Crucible

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    Exploration of this power lies at the center of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. He delves into the world of how it affects different people: the accusers, the innocent or those being accused, and authority. Miller wrote The Crucible in 19** when the United States was in gripped by fear of communism. Miller observed how some authorities (notably Senator Joseph McCarthy) exploited this fear for his own political gain and ruining many innocent…

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    affect the story? The Crucible, a modern play by Arthur Miller, is based on the Witchcraft trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. The play is faithful to the historical period and to Puritan beliefs. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the characters of Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams can be compared and contrasted through love for John Proctor, witchcraft, and being loved by their families. Additionally, Arthur Miller makes two women fall in love for John Proctor and can…

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    Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” is about the Salem witch trials in 1962, where puritan girls were accusing innocent men and women in Salem of witchery. This led to the execution of twenty-one people and jailing of hundred-fifty people. The people of Salem, Massachusetts were of Puritan faith, which stressed the biblical teaching that witches were real and deadly. Characters in author Miller’s play “The Crucible” shows the controversy in Salem during the witch trails of 1962. Reverend John…

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    Changes in social and political attitudes are represented in literature today. In some cases this is how the author expresses his/her opinion on the given attitude. This is exactly what the author of the Crucible is trying to get at. In the play “The Crucible” the author is dealing with a specific matter within the time period, and that is the witchcraft scare that arose around the area. The author is trying to show us how he views this situation. He shows us how he believes that this was just a…

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