How relevant ist he drama "The Crucible" for us today?In the middle of the 20th century Arthur Miller wrote the drama "The Crucible" which takes place in a small puritan village in 1692/93. Therefore the situation of the characters is very hard to fathom for us because the whole action seems so far ...

In literature as in life people often suffer severe tests of character. Sometimes they must defend their beliefs in the face of great opposition. In the drama The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, two characters showed this quality. John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse both suffered severe tests of character...

A Study of Literary Spokespeople in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"Arthur Miller wrote many dramas in which he analyzed human behavior in society. One of his more famous dramas included The Crucible (1953), a story about the paranoia and conspiracy of the Salem witch trials. During the 1950s, the U...

The play The Crucible takes place in the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a quite and normal little town during the 1890's. The play begins with a small group of girls that go dancing in the forest with a black slave woman named Tituba. During their dancing, they are caught b...

Crucible As A Hero A tragedy should bring fear and pity to the reader. A man in this tragedy not should be exceptionally righteous, but his faults should come about because of a certain irreversible error on his part. This man should find a bad or fatal ending to add to ...

The Crucible A crucible is a "severe test or trial." In this story written by Arthur Miller, each character is faced with a test. This test is the test of honesty. Many of these characters did not pass this test. Abigail Williams, a young girl, probably failed worse than anyone else...

There are many techniques used to present ideas in drama and many of them are seen in Miller's contemporarily written 'The Crucible' and the older 'Macbeth' by Shakespeare. Despite the difference, many techniques are the same although the ideas may differ. Out of the many ...

Abigail: Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you'd best go down and deny it yourself. The parlor's packed with people sir. I'll sit with her. Parris: And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest? (M...

In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller explores good verses evil. Miller sets his play in Salem Massachusetts during the witch trials in the late 1600s that he found very similar to the Red Hunt in the 1950s. Miller sets a group of young ladies in a time where children did not speak until spoken to...

For our performance of \"Still I Rise,\" we wanted to use texts and performances we had seen and read in the past to help us to make it better. A text we used for inspiration was \"The Crucible\" by Arthur Miller. Having studied \"The Crucible\" in depth, I feel that it is easy to see a resemblance ...

In The Crucible Miller shows little faith in human nature, religion or social structures. Do you agree. Arthur Miller's The Crucible reveals to its audience a melting pot of human emotions, actions and motivations. Under this melting pot considerable heat is applied. This heat emerges f...

Has this ever happened to you: You wanted something really bad, so you did every little thing so correct and so perfect and you led yourself so high and so far. Yet one simple mistake caused everything you worked so hard for to disintegrate, like there was no point you even tried? Well, this is iron...

John Proctors Decision To Die Was Justifiable In the novel The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, a strict and disciplined puritan town is dealing with a case of witchcraft. It started when a group of girls were found dancing and participating in mysterious acts in the forest. John Proctor, a simple farmer...

20th Century Drama How Does Arthur Miller Create Tension Throughout Act 3 of The Crucible? The Crucible is set in Salem in 1962. During this time Christ was strongly believed in and played a great part in people's lives. Witchcraft was also a major issue and people were afraid of this. If ...

The CrucibleFinally I am now able to write freely without any fear of conviction, I wrote The Crucible, in the context of the historical Salem Witch Trials, which shows many innocent people being accused indiscriminately of crimes and sins they did not commit. Throughout history, society has been bl...