The Crucible was published in1953 and was written Arthur Miller. There were three major themes in the book. They were personal liberty, the need for integrity, and the human bond. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The Crucible is based on different people of that time being ...

Themes in "The Crucible" The play The Crucible introduces us to some vital insights by the themes presented throughout it. One of these themes is that fear and suspicion are infectious and can produce a state of general hysteria that results in the destruction of public order and ration...

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...

It is true that Arthur Miller's play and Nicholas Hytner's, 'The Crucible' makes truth claims and invite their audience to view the Salem Witch trails in a certain way. Both directors use deliberate manipulation to ensure that the audience perceived the Salem Witch Trails in a ...

"The Crucible:" A Lesson Learned from Salem 1692 Does the Salem Witch Trial from 1692 offer any modern day lesson for America? Often authors and playwrights use their art to teach lessons to the people who read, view, and enjoy their works. Often artists will use a real life event...

Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible' was produced in 1953 in the middle of the McCarthy political 'witch-hunt' in America. Under the chairmanship of Senator Joseph McCarthy the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) became paranoid in searching for Communists, ex-Com...

The Crucible is a play that explains the story of the Salem Witch Delusion. Arthur Miller, the acclaimed playwright, is the author of this performance. McCarthyism played a vast role in the creation of The Crucible. Many parallels were drawn between the play and the Red Scare. The Red Scare ...

Wrongly AccusedThe events of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and those of the McCarthy scandals may be separated by some two hundred and sixty years, but are joined in the sense that elements of societies each sought only evidence of guilt. The events that occurred in these two situations show that ...

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 Crucible & Era Evaluation In 1953, a man by the name of Arthur Miller wrote a play not only as a historical allusion, but more specifically a piece based on criticism and comparison. The Crucible it was named. Miller, by implying the Salem witch trials was similar to that of the actions by Wi...

THEY WALK IN SHADOWS, have long black beards, a dark complexion and are of Middle Eastern appearance. They hijack planes and bomb innocent people. Who you ask? Muslims. Terrorists. Arabs. The fundamentalist demons of the 21st century of which we have all become so afraid. And why are we so afraid?...

In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, started a trial and investigation of communism in the Hollywood motion picture industry. The Committee, including Chairman J. Parnell Thomas a young Congressman from California, and Richard M. Nixon tried many celebrities asking them ...