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How can a organization that praises itself on being respectable be responsible for the death of 20 innocent people (Blumberg)? The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The lives of the people living in this town revolve around the church. They blindly follow God as by not doing so would result in them going to Hell. The story begins with young Betty in bed unable to move, it is later revealed that a group of girls from the town were dancing in the forest,…

The circumstances an individual goes through in life, are the very factors that play a key role in shaping their temperament. How they choose to react to these situations affects every moral decision they make and directs their future. In his play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller demonstrates that when an individual faces adversity, it forces them to make a choice that will positively develop their identity, which otherwise would remain dormant in prosperous situations. John Proctor, the protagonist…

The Crucible Analytical Essay In 1953, Arthur Miller wrote the play The Crucible .One of the themes it presents is jealousy, which many people are easily motivated by. In the play, Abigaile is motivated to do anything, even accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft, so that she can be with John Proctor. In the beginning, we find out that Abigail and John had an affair while Elizabeth was sick. Elizabeth caught them, and this caused Abigail to get fired from her job at their house. This made Abigail…

The Crucible The Crucible is a movie that stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Bruce Davison, Joan Allen, Rob Campbell, and Robert Breuler. The historic movie takes place in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. The Crucible is a tragedy and allegory. The Crucible is surely a movie for those who love drama. The film begins with Reverend Paris finds his daughter, Betty, with his niece, Abigail Williams, and many of the other girls from town dancing in the woods with his slave, Tituba. His…

Has a story about you ever been twisted? the Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red scare in the Mccarthyism era; in both stories people feared something whether it was witchcraft or communism. they also have people that twist the story to benefit themselves or others, and exaggerated rumors or lies just to help themselves or hurt others. Something as little as fear in people could really be big. Communism in the time period was really bad, people had thought that it was going to…

In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, the reader has fear for the victims who are falsely accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams. The people of Salem and the reader can feel the presence of Abigail Williams even though she is not in Act 2. Further, the kind of influence Abigail Williams has is that she is destructive of the Proctor’s marriage. A way she is destructive is in the Proctor’s marriage: “There is a pause… Her back is turned to him. He turns to her and watches her. A sense of their…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller uses his writing to emphasize how people will manipulate fear in order to obtain power. Abigail Williams is a young girl who finds herself in a socially and sexually oppressive environment; she is on the low rung of society, because she is an orphan and is unmarried. After falling in love with an already married man she is even more powerless, because she cannot love him openly or even get him to acknowledge her. She sees this fear of witches and the…

Normally dancing around the fire isn’t a bad idea, rewind to the 17th century and you’re in for a lot of drama. Depicted first as a play written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible was later developed into a movie in 1996 directed by Nicholas Hytner. The movie portrays a series of events based on true incidents that happened in Salem, Massachusetts 1962 as the Salem witch trials came to be. Starting out with the opening scene, young girls begin to dance around a fire, summoning spirits among those…

The preservation of reputation is the major theme in The Crucible. Arthur Miller writes The Crucible in a way that compares aspects of puritan society to modern life and makes the story relatable. Pointing the finger and shifting the blame is human nature and dates back to Adam and Eve. Everybody has witnessed blame and finger pointing in their lives which is why this story is so relatable. Though still wrong in today's culture, adultery and being accused of witchcraft, are not punishable by…

In the essay “Possible Worlds: Why do Children Pretend?” by Alison Gopnik she explains her theory of counterfactual thinking and the result of that being possible worlds. Gopnik suggests that counterfactuals are the possibilities of what could have occurred in life. These counterfactuals are the cause, and the effect is the creation of possible worlds. Gopnik defines possible worlds as “the productions of hope and imagination” (163). Possible worlds are seen as the result of a counterfactual;…