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...

The CrucibleThe Crucible, a historical play based on events of the Salem witchcraft trials, takes place in the small Puritan village in the colony of Massachusetts in 1692. The witchcraft trials, as Miller explains in a prose prologue to the play, grew out of the particular moral system of the Purit...

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 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...

If Arthur Miller's play The Crucible were only about the witch-hunt for communist sympathizers in government in the early 1950's, it would be a literary anachronism, a historical artifact with little impact on contemporary audiences. This, however, is not the case. The play retains its em...