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...

Synopsis of The CrucibleThe Crucible by Arthur Miller is based on actual persons andevents. Some dialogue and characterizations based on legal recordsare actually included in the drama. Before the actual play opens, theauthor introduces the audience to the setting by describing thePuritan environm...

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...

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...

A tragic event should bring fear and pity to the reader and the hero should be courageous and noble, hence when combined a tragic hero is presented. The protagonist, John Proctor, portrays a tragic hero in The Crucible. His hamartia of treachery caused great internal struggles, he displays hubris ...

Book Review: The CrucibleThis critically acclaimed play, by Arthur Miller, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1692. It illustrates the historic incidents that occurred during the Salem witch trials. During that time and era, these documented events truly are "one of the strangest and...

The Crucible is a play which delivers an astute philosophical discourse about the power of collective consciousness and the over bearing strength and control of a deluded ecclesiastical oligarchy. Miller achieves the powerful impact of such a universal theme by focusing on the personal. We observe t...

Louise CowleyThe Crucible - Use Of LanguageThe fact that Miller uses language from the period in which the play is set adds to the authenticity, giving the characters more credibility and so are more believable - once again this is a device that Miller uses to perpetuate his flair for realism making...

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...