The Crucible

Sexism and the Crucible The Technology era glorifies all unethical situations. Shootings, rape, kidnappings, and cheating seem to be all over the media today. However, they do not focus on what actually happened, but instead on who is the victim and who is the villain. Has sexism changed since 1692 and what beliefs about it stayed the same? Adultery, slut-shaming are examples of how sexism still prevails as an issue that women must face, however, the social effect today is still worse for women…

It is even worse when someone has to die for the thing the person want. Abigail Williams is one of these people. She believes that she and John Proctor are meant to be and will do anything, in her will, to be with him. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, he uses both direct and indirect characterization to develop Abigail Williams into a flat as well as a static character. Miller wastes little time in telling the audience directly that Abigail is largely defined by her illimitable capacity of…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, many people that were worried about their reputation, which lead to deception, death, and arrogance. Throughout The Crucible, many of the characters lied about witchcraft. Most of the people that lied were doing it to protect themselves. Abigail talks about how they danced and conjured one of the girl’s dead sister. But she says to them “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of…

Terror politics and cultural geography: Years of social, geographical and cultural uncertainty. Nicholas Hytner movie, The Crucible (1996), written by Arthur Miller, illustrates the fatal events occurred in the village of Salem, in Massachusetts, from June until September of 1692. The Salem witch trials were caused by a compound of irrational fear and mass hysteria which are connected to the abuse of power, Puritan lifestyle and their beliefs in the context of the 17th century. The aftermath of…

heard or first hand experience. Many criticisms lead to persecution and ignorance from everyone involved in the situation. Similar to criticisms in modern society, judgments have lead to several persecutions and realizations in literature such as The Crucible and my personal life as well. People should judge others by their inner character, because when they do it brings out compassion; however, when people do not judge by inner character it brings outs qualities such as confusion and…

ill-behaved and unruly? In society today, there is no black and white answer. Additionally, the line between what is right and what is wrong is obscured and misinterpreted. Obscurity and misinterpretation causes various essential problems in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, where John Proctor represents individualism. Although Proctor has made mistakes, he is still a honorable person which is demonstrated by his weight and respect in Salem, allegiance to his own beliefs, no matter what,…

Crucible writing assignment Most people desire to be treated with fairness and equality. While justice is meant to be distributed with fairness and equality, Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible portrays that this is not always the case. Those appointed to administer justice often misuse their power in order to get revenge on those they feel deserved it. Revenge manipulated the system of justice by twisting information to gain what it desires. These two themes, justice and revenge, are observed…

The Crucible Loretta True Keiser University “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller accurately depicts the proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials back in 1692. These trails are acclaimed to be some of the most controversial events occurring during this time period because of the unclear amount of truly guilty people facing these sentences with the mass hysteria of the devil lurking in Puritan society. Hysteria usually brought out by fear of the devil and higher authorities should not be looked at as a…

contrived. This is true of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, a political allegory presenting the similarities between the Salem witch trials and the investigations of HUAC in the early 1950s, as well as Stephen Frear’s 2000 film Fail Safe, an exploration of the heightened tensions of the Cold War era. Both texts illustrate that power lead’s to a notion of self-importance and undeniable fear and paranoia in the face of misguided ideologies. The Crucible shows the power of inflamed imagination,…

Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is a partially fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials. Miller depicts Salem as a community filled with mass paranoia and fear that leads to the an atmosphere in which everyone was a potential witch. The story is centered on John Proctor and tells the story of the witchcraft accusations that lead to his death. Many people blame his death and the death of many others on Abigail Williams, a young woman whose lies lead to the death of many innocent…