Sinclair Lewis

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible clearly demonstrates the society of Salem, Massachusetts during the late 1600s while simultaneously bringing up Miller’s own ideas and opinions pertaining to this time period. The Crucible is centers around an eighteen year old girl named Abigail, who previously has an affair with a man named John Proctor. Desperate to win back the love of John, Abigail and her friends go dancing in the woods in an attempt to set a charm to get rid of Elizabeth, John’s wife.…

In the Crucible, an obvious setback for the characters actions is reputation. When living in a small town or having some kind of authority, reputation can plague your life. Reputations can create intense assumptions and judgements about people whether you have met them or not. If you have a bad reputation it will affect the way others see you and therefore will prevent them from wanting to make deals or even talk to you at all. In this case, reputation will affect the ability to have a fair…

Literary Analysis of The Crucible During the 1950s, McCarthyism ran rampant throughout the United States. The act of accusing many political figures of belonging to the communist party is defined as McCarthyism. Today, it is often compared to a “Political Witch Hunt.” Author Arthur Miller was one of the political figures named for being a communist. Rather than allowing McCarthyists to defile his name entirely, he decided to fight back by writing a book to shed light on the injustice…

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible recalls all the events of the Salem witch trials and the people who were persecuted for these crimes. Multiple people came under fire for the crime of witchcraft and were unjustly accused and persecuted for this crime. Miller delved deep into the minds of both the accusers and the accused he tried to show the story from the point of view of everyone. He also explored how this affected some people and some of the bigger impacts it had and it tried to stay close to…

added splashes of visual information to help the audience understand the cruel reality of the Salem witch hunt. This film is two hours and five minutes long and was first released on the 27th of November in 1996. The two main actors were Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor the protagonist who is a reputation and name obsessed character who has difficulties forgiving himself, and Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams a young and ignorant girl in love with a married man. "The Crucible" starts in the…

The Crucible is a play/story based on real events of the salem witch trials and is written by Arthur miller. In the beginning, Abigail williams is portrayed as good innocent girl. Through the play we realize she is actually a terrible, vindictive person. “I would never hurt Betty, I love her dearly”(25) makes Abigail sound like a good innocent person. But throughout this play we will realize how bad she really is. During the beginning Parris is questioning Abigail and why Betty is sick.…

Kate McGhghy Ms. Heitritter ILA 12/11/17 The Crucible In the play The Crucible Abigail is frustrated at the man she loves, John Proctor, who loves her but is in denial about his feelings because he is married to Elizabeth Proctor. On page 22 the conversation between Abigail and Proctor goes “you’re surely sportin’ with me. You know me better. I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a…

Facts on Crucible Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, take place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 and was inspired by infamous Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials began in early 1692 when a bunch of young girls cried and claimed to be possessed by the devil and then later accused many women of witchcraft. Witches came from the belief of gaining from power devil “specifically in the devil’s practice of giving certain humans (witches) the power to harm others in return for their loyalty” (history…

As stated in the above paragraph, the main focus of this paper is The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Set in the small Puritan village of Salem, Mass., The Crucible starts with the girls dancing under the moonlight in the woods. When the reverend's daughter, Betty, falls into a coma like state, rumors of witchcraft spread quickly through the town. After Abigail blames the reverend's slave, Tituba, for witchcraft, to which she confesses but says she is not the only witch in Salem, leading to…

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis portrayed evil in a way that I found extremely interesting. A demon named Screwtape writes letters to his nephew, Wormwood, to guide him on trying to keep a human away from God. He tells Wormwood that he should keep his “Patient” busy and never allow him time to get close with God. The way that evil is portrayed is interesting because it is never manifested to the human. It is just a force prompting them to do certain things that will eventually lead them to…