Glenn Miller

The incident that led to the Salem Witch Trials, was known as The Crucible. This was a time of resentment, pain, panic, and vile. In my family’s past, people like my grandma have experienced something similar to that. She was a teen, around 15 years old, and had witnessed the troubles of World War II. Growing up with five siblings, four brothers and one sister, they all enlisted in a different branch of the service. My grandmother was much younger than her siblings and was never in the…

“Society vs. the Individual in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.” English Studies 63.1 (1982): 32-36 Bonnet argues that Miller fully contradicts himself in his standpoint between the individual and society in the Crucible. The play alternates between being about an individual’s self-discovery and being about a community’s uproar. Bonnet illustrates how Miller constantly forces the characters to deny themselves at the sack of the community’s unity. This is done through the…

she resents, manipulating them to the point of breaking. Her unabating pursuit of her desires ails her and ultimately draws her to evil, this is shown when "I find here a poppet Goody proctor keeps...and in the belly of the poppet a needle's stuck" (Miller 500). This passage represents the turning point in the story which furthers the thought that Abigail will go to such great lengths to achieve her endeavor. This quote is crucial because it is one of the first pieces of evidence that shows her…

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible show’s and defines the truth and will about someone as well as their integrity. The play bases itself off of witchcraft and the severe punishment if found witchcrafting. It starts of with Mr. Parris, finding Abigail and the girls dancing in the forest. Through Mr. Parris’s eyes it was a dead end for him and the girls being that he was very much involved with the church also the community and it would have a great effect if the community finds out about what…

Since The Crucible is based off of historical events, there are many stories as to how it happened. A town named LeRoy experienced similar things that Salem has. There were girls in both towns that were affected , once it was brought to people's attention the problems got bigger. When you lie about something and keep the lie going, it starts to become real and you will start to believe your lie. In both cases the whole town was affected, people were angry and they wanted to put an end to the…

The Crucible Essay The Crucible was a play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. Written in 1953, it is a play based on the Salem Witch Trials with some added fictional characters. It takes place in Salem and surrounding towns and builds up to a court where many were tried and executed, and many were falsely accused by teenager Abigail Williams. The people of Salem were mainly focused on being respected by others and having a good and sinless reputation. An example of this is a man…

Witches In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the Salem Witch Trials are portrayed impeccably. It is 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts there were assumptions that witches running amongst the people of Salem. Women of all ages were falsely accused of being caught with the devil, later on men started getting accused also. These men and women were given an opportunity to admit they were witches and be saved or they could deny it and be hanged. The very manipulative and outspoken, Abigail…

The world can twist what it perceives as right and wrong in many people’s eyes leaving those who act in good spirit behind and propel those that act in bad spirit forward. The Crucible by Arthur Miller proves a prime example of this fact. Salem, Massachusetts, a corrupt town ruled by priests mixed in with mass hysteria, sets the stage for this story in which the liars and deceivers triumph over those who tell the truth and try to defend their loved ones. John Proctor, one of the victims of the…

History repeats itself when similarities between events can no longer be ignored. When Arthur Miller’s the Crucible bears a striking resemblance to today’s problems of Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the fear of the religion Islam, this fear today parades around creating havoc throughout America. A similar fear rampaged around Salem in the crucible. This fear caused many to irrationally exclude and persecute others. Many of the victims in the witch trials in the Crucible and victims of…

to success. In the play while talking to his sons, Happy and Biff, about his ‘American dream’ Willey, as an example, explains that he is going to be greater than Uncle Charley, a wealthy businessman, because “He’s liked, but he’s not well liked” (Miller 232). This is significant to the story because that is Willy’s philosophy of life. With Willy’s inability to accept reality Willy lives by a philosophy of life, that only good men are liked for example, friends and family, but great men are…