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...

Historical Drama and the Dimensions of Tragedy: A Man For All Seasons and The CrucibleA comparison of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and Arthur Miller's The Crucible demonstrates the potentiality ofhistorical drama to produce melodrama or tragedy. Written at approximately the sam...

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 drama of the Crucible takes place in Salem 1962. Arthur Miller creates many frauds in the story, one of which is Abigail Williams. Abigail is the 17-year-old niece of Reverend Parris. Abigail scares the children of Salem to call witch on the town; she seeks revenge on all the people who gossiped...

Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a drama based upon the 1690's Massachusetts witchcraft trials. The Crucible tells of the havoc wrought in early Salem when some restless young girls claim that witches are taking over the village. Their leader, Abigail Williams, hopes for revenge against Elizabeth P...

With The Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists by the people of America. The dramatist was born in Manhattan in October 17, 1915, to Isadore and Agusta M...

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 ...

The Crucible Evaluation When Arthur Miller sat down to write the Crucible, it is obvious he took many things into account. The presentation of the book is very well thought out. As for the history aspect of the book, it is obvious that he did a lot of research even though there are still some d...

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...

The play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a suspenseful and thought-provoking drama, concerned with a theme of rising over adversity to stand for truth and righteousness. Set in Salem, Massachusetts, during the 17th Century, the play reiterates the story of mass hysteria, which was experienced dur...

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...

Arthur Miller, the winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes str...

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 ...

THE CRUCIBLEIt´s the spring of 1692. The whole village of Salem is is an uproar. The Reverend Samuel Parris´ daughter Betty won´t wake up, and the Putmans´ little Ruth is walking around like a zombie.The night before, Reverend Parris had heard a f...

THE CRUCIBLEIt´s the spring of 1692. The whole village of Salem is is an uproar. The Reverend Samuel Parris´ daughter Betty won´t wake up, and the Putmans´ little Ruth is walking around like a zombie.The night before, Reverend Parris had heard a f...

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...

Texts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; The Crucible, Nicholas Hytner production of Arthur Miller's screenplay Question: Explain how the authors of the two texts present similar ideas, although they tell different stories. When ideas surpass both time and place, it is only logi...

The Tragic HeroA tragedy should bring fear and pity to the reader. A man in this tragedy notshould be exceptionally righteous, but his faults should come about because of a certainirreversible error on his part. This man should find a bad or fatal ending to add to thetragedy of the story, for this...

A political cartoon shows a massive stone wall surrounding tall office buildings which bear labels of "Department of Energy," "Defense Department," "National Security Agency," "CIA," and "FBI." Outside the wall, which is tagged "Government Secrecy," a couple huddles in a roofless hut called "Person...

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...