William Miller

Love can take you to new extremes. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail William attempts to incriminate the wife of the man she loves. Her condemned lies induce the city of Salem, with their restrictive theocracy, in a cry of hysteria when witchery is threatened upon their society. Out of Abigail’s adolescent adoration of a forbidden love and a deliberate defense for her reputation, Abigail perpetrates irremediable sins, losing her morality within her society. Without looking at all…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller a girl named Abigail Williams is a young teenager that lives in the town of Salem and she is in search of power and is willing to lie to get there. “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osborn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”(Penguin). This quote shows how Abigail accuses all of these women in the town after she clears herself from sin by saying that she has written in the devil's book and that she wants God in her life. Once she says…

Many innocent people are killed in The Crucible. Arthur Miller is the author of The Crucible, this play about the witch trials that take place in Salem, Massachusetts. This is the result of people in Salem falsely accusing other citizens. Some names that come up when talking about who is ultimately to blame for the deaths of those innocent Puritans during the witch hunt are, the Putnams, Reverend Parris, Governor Danforth, and Abigail Williams. Ann Putnam was focused on assigning blame to others…

In the year 1692, mass hysteria broke out in the town of Salem. The townsfolk were convinced that they were in danger of bewitchment due to a young girl’s lie. Arthur Miller accurately portrays these events in his play, The Crucible. One of the characters who remains the same from history to the play is a Barbados slave by the name of Tituba. Tituba is a compelling fictional character because, as a historical figure, she played an important role in the (Salem Witch) Trials. Tituba is an…

Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005), an acclaimed 20th century American play and screen writer, most famous for conflicting guilt and hope within characters in his plays. Miller, born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City into a family of immigrants from Polish and Jewish descents, Miller had spent most of his youth surrounded by literature. With his mother, which whom he was very close to, being an educator and a novel enthusiast. After graduating high school Miller began working to save up…

In the play “The Crucible”, the author, Arthor Miller tells the story of a vast array of people involved during the 1690’s Salem Witch Trials. Miller takes your through all the confusion of the time. The play tackles the theme of hysteria, neighbors turned on one another. They accuse each other of being involved with witchcraft. The fear the hysteria brings, confusion and overwhelmed all logic and individual thought. The whole community aspect in the town is in ruins, everyone mistrust…

mainly about McCarthyism in the 1950’s and how that is seen during the Puritan times. However, Arthur Miller also shows the idea of how individuals of Salem simply broke charities among each other. Through his characters, Arthur Miller shows how breaking charity can destroy the village of Salem. Before the start of The Crucible there were things going on between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Once Abigail went to the forest John had found out and did not like what was happening with this…

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1952. It takes place in Salem, Massachusetts when a group of girls go dancing with a black girl named Tituba. The minister, Reverend Parris, caught the girls dancing around a fire. When they noticed they got caught, Parris’s daughter Betty, fell into a coma. The town’s people started saying the girls were committing witchcraft. But the girls insisted that they were just simply dancing. John Proctor had an affair in the past with one of the girls, Abigail, and…

Paranoia’s Effect The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, a historical play with exciting, enticing, and extraordinary plot lines and characters. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts 1692. At this time Salem, part of Puritan America, religious values shape every aspect of someone’s life. Miller presents strong characters, such as: Tituba, Mary Warren, and Abigail Williams. All accuse people because they are afraid and want to either save or change their lives. Paranoia leads to the…

flaunting ever changing lists of alleged communists within the state of department. Egged on by other politicians, he continued to make outrageous accusations while distorting or fabricating evidence.” This relates to the main antagonist Abigail Williams from Arthur Miller's play The Crucible because on Abigail’s quest to gain the love of John Proctor, she and her friends started the Salem witch hunt. The girls ran around accusing many people; the people they disliked and those who got in their…