The Crucible The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change of development ,it is fixated on the Salem witch trials. Although the witch trials is the main aspect of the play , other topics should be looked u...

A crucible, as defined by the Merriam-Webester Concise Electronic Dictionary, is "the state or fact of being tested (as by suffering)", which attests to what Elizabeth Proctor is going through exactly. Elizabeth has quite a crucible to struggle through. The infidelity of her husband is a...

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...

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...

Elizabeth and Abigail The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a story about a group of girls who selfishly accuse people of witchcraft to save themselves. The accused people are put on trial. These trials are known as the Salem Witchcraft Trials. This is known as a cr...

A Major Theme of The Crucible According to the Webster's Dictionary, a crucible is "a vessel in which metal is heated to a high temperature and melted for the purposes of casting". It can also be referred to a situation in which a person has to make a decision that can be criti...

Elizabeth and AbigailAbigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor, the leading female characters in The Crucible, both show determination in order to get what they want. Abigail, a cunning girl that is out for revenge, feels she has superiority over many of the other characters even though she is only a y...

Arthur Miller uses an abundance of irony in his play, The Crucible. Irony was shown at almost every aspect of the play and often these ironic incidents foreshadow future event or events creating and building up a sense of dramatic tension.Of these incidents, one was the fact that the Puritans themse...

. Superstition in The Crucible The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is based on the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. The Crucible deals with a community, which everybody lived in a normal society and everybody attended church. However, one night, a group of girls were caught dancing in ...

In the film The Crucible directed by Nicholas Hytner, the character of Elizabeth Proctor, wife of husband John Proctor who is accused of Witchcraft and has an affair with Abigail Williams. The behavioural aspects Elizabeth shows through out this film are how she is Morally pure and Religious, She is...

The Crucible is a play about witchcraft. It all begins with a group of young women playing with witchcraft taught by Tituba and Abigail William's. Reverend Parris found them and most of the girls scattered but the smallest girls stayed, frozen with fear. The people of Salem, where the ...

The Crucible For a person to change they usually have to undergo a meaningful event. Most people don't even realize they change or they think they don't have to. When a person does change they usually do it for themselves or someone they really care about. In the book, the peo...

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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 ...

Part IV Task The quote, "Our problems are manmade: therefore, they may be solved by man... No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." by President John F. Kennedy, holds truth. In other words, we create our own problems and make our own choices on how to solve them, in turn, controllin...

One of mankind's greatest challenges is to stand up and defend what it knows is right in the face of opposition. Amongst all the lying and self-deceit in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor is able to carry out this noble deed and becomes a fighter against the injustice of the Salem wit...

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...

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...

The Crucible: Love Triangle Love, hatred, and revenge all play a part of this play's love triangle. These three reasons all led up to the cause of the tense relationship of John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. The three characters had dense relationships with each ot...

American Lit/Comp.9-21-03Crucible PaperThe Crucible, a twentieth century play, written by Arthur Miller, inspired by the communist accusations of Senator McCarthy, recounts a classical tale of allegation of innocent Puritans charged with the crime of witchcraft. In Salem Village, Massachusetts the i...

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, some of the characters showed courage whenthe live's of their loved ones were at risk. One of the main character's in the play was John Proctor. He showed couragewhen his wife, Elizabeth was accused of being a witch. When John found out that it wasAbigail William...

The play, 'The Crucible', illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people, as people did during the Salem witch hunts of 1962.Many innocent life's were taken because someone had started to point fingers at people based on the fact that they didn't like them....

"The Crucible" Strengths and weaknesses Both John and Elizabeth have their strengths and their weaknesses. John acknowledges that what he did (the affair) was wrong, is sorry, and has tried to amend the situation, he has tried to make it up to Elizabeth. His weakness was having the af...

'The Crucible' is about the Salem witch hunts which happened in the small Massachusetts village in the year 1692. A group of girls were discovered dancing in the woods, when one of them fell ill the deeply religious residents of Salem began to suspect that the sickness was caused by witch...

Three Emotions To the European world, the province of Salem, Massachusetts was a barbaric frontier that was inhabited by a group of fanatics of godly situations. The people of this province considered themselves holy and pure children of God, opposed to the devil's ever-present face in their lives...