The Crucible

An allegory, or a literary device where characters and/or events symbolize other ideas or concepts. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a perfect example of how the use of an allegory can make important statements about tabooed subjects. Having lived in and dealt with the restricting McCarthy era, using his unique writing style, and his knowledge on the Salem witch trials, Miller delivers the brutal truth on the difficulties faced by the American people during the 1950’s. Beginning in the 1940’s…

prejudice, and affection motivate one to shun others. In consequence of one’s reckless actions the public expresses their odium through shunning; the shunning may cause a positive or negative influence on the individual. John Proctor from the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Charlie Sheen from Two and Half Men both share similar characteristics among differences. For instance, both Proctor and Sheen deliberately self-destruct themselves through their actions and decisions, however their…

¶ “You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore”. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible in 1952. It is about somebody who calls witch and gets a bunch of people killed. There are many examples of propaganda found in this story. Some types of propaganda that are found in the Crucible are stereotyped, fear, and bandwagon. The first type of propaganda used in this story is stereotyping. Stereotyping is a biased belief about a group of people. stereotyping was used when Tituba is singing in…

The attribute of evil in something can be present in many ways, and different people have different opinions on what really qualifies something as evil. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the town of Salem, Massachusetts is overtaken by the debatable presence of witchcraft. This fear of witches leads to chaos and innocent lives being taken. The most evil character in the story is Abigail Williams, the niece of the minister in the town. She displays this by threatening other girls and their lives,…

Changes in social and political attitudes are represented in literature today. In some cases this is how the author expresses his/her opinion on the given attitude. This is exactly what the author of the Crucible is trying to get at. In the play “The Crucible” the author is dealing with a specific matter within the time period, and that is the witchcraft scare that arose around the area. The author is trying to show us how he views this situation. He shows us how he believes that this was just a…

years to come. Although a four-act play, The Crucible incorporates all of the components that are associated with a five-act play. Written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible reveals a tragic story of love, lust and jealousy, dedicated to the Salem Witch Trials of the late 1600s. In the play, Act One sets the stage in Salem, Massachusetts,…

This essay is based on the play by Arthur Miller called The Crucible. This play was written about the Salem Witch Trials, and was published in the early 1950’s. In this essay, I argue that the witch trials can be compared to how we treated Muslims in America after 9/11, compare some of the major feelings in the play to things that I have felt in my personal life, and explain how I thought it affected me. In the setting of the Crucible, was in Salem 1692, where a bunch of girls have fallen ill,…

of the innocent, and the Proctors were unlucky enough to fall into the mix of it all. Even though they had both pleaded innocent, the courts ruled them guilty, which led to Elizabeth explaining that the highest judge is God, not the courts. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about early America during the witch trials. In the Crucible a antagonist, Abigail Williams, had accused and had deadly sins and her dark heart blam people of witch craft, she also wanted to have an affair with a married man. One of the most responsible deadly sin in this play was lust and greed. Both play a key role in the story. Lust is what Abigail had, greed is what a lot of people had in Salem and some had lust and other deadly sins. Lust is an…

You cannot have man without him having morals. Whether they originate from the type of upbringing, governmental restrictions, social grouping, or religious association, men will always have an enclosure of values and ethics in which he lives, and he himself is made up of as an individual of society. In modern and past day culture, many will argue that religion is one of the main derivatives of the maintaining of values in a group of people, and those devout say one cannot have morals without the…