Mercy Otis Warren

Written in the 1940's, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible explores the hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process that characterized the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Arguably, the themes explored in this play resonate With many modern and historical events. Arthur Miller himself saw strong connections between the events Salem Witch Trials and events surrounding the Red Scare in the 1950s. When juxtaposed with the events of the Crucible, themes of hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process…

Although many historical fictions rely heavily on true events, the author will usually change some parts of the story to serve a different purpose. Arthur Miller deftly obscures certain facts in his drama, The Crucible, in order to shape the reader’s opinion. Miller fabricates Abigail William’s sinful motives and portrays John Proctor as an honest, hardworking farmer, in order to efficaciously influence the audience’s opinion to be in favor the innocent victims, and against the malevolent…

As mentioned priorly regarding the movie ‘The Rainmaker’ we take on the part o a defense lawyer who has to defend Matt Damon, a lawyer who just graduated from law school on his case about self-defense against Claire Dane’s husband who tried attacking him because of jealousy. Secondly, we defend Claire Dane, who’s a battered wife who was not able to get out her abusive relationship from being scared of being killed. As a defense lawyer, from the facts, drowned out from Matt Damon self-responses…

The Assassin Becomes the Assassinated On November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is assassinated at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald fires three shots from a 6.5 mm Carcano Model 91/38 carbine at the President; the first shot penetrates through the President’s throat, then the second shot pierces through the head. President Kennedy is announced dead 30 minutes after the shooting. Oswald is found 20…

Josh Mauzy Dewhirst Mod 5A 9/29/15 Group Hysteria Irony, the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result, is a reoccurring literary technique that Arthur Miller uses in The Crucible. The most eminent example of irony exhibited in this play is observed through the Puritan society that dominated in the late 1600s in Salem, Massachusetts. The word "Puritan" implies a virtuous connotation, however ironically, the reality of life at that time…

Movies and Impact on Society. An historical event that impart society in the past and that still lives in our minds is the assassination of John F Kennedy. According to a website, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. That same website says that, “bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy” (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum). This historical…

In Miller’s play, The Crucible, there are a numerous amount of antagonistic perspectives that force the reader to contemplate about whom the intended hero of the story is. However, throughout much of the play, one of the most dynamic characters, John Proctor, heavily displays the true demeanor of a hero. Despite his fatal flaw, Proctor obtains noble characteristics and righteous qualities that cannot be dismissed, which are evident in his final decision regarding the hangings. John’s decision…

The themes of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible remain evident in today’s society. In it, the people of Salem, Massachusetts begin to turn on each other when mass hysteria around the idea of witchcraft results in the hanging of dozens of innocent citizens. Similar to The Crucible, with today’s technology, there is a huge amount of mass hysteria around the idea that the internet is threatening and alarming. In the crucible, Salem, Massachusetts undergoes the witch trials. Once one person was named…

There has been a lot of people who cheat on their wives or husbands and it ends up with a terrible result. In Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible, John Proctor and Abigail Williams have an affair and this creates a lot of problems and ends up in a tragic result in the play. In this story, John Proctor decides to break up his affair with Abigail Williams, and she leads the other girls in the practicing of witchcraft to demand the death of Elizabeth. When people find out about the witchcraft, the…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a finely nuanced play about the Salem witch trials, and crowd hysteria. The main characters include John Proctor, an upstanding man in the community; Abigail Williams, a prime witness and accuser of witches; Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife and an accused witch; and many more characters. These characters are mentioned outside of the play itself, in the Act 2, Scene 2. Arthur Miller had originally annexed this scene, and reading The Crucible with and without it…