The Crucible\'s plot revolves around a group of young girls in seventeenth-century Puritan Salem. The conflict in the story arises when this gaggle of girls, after being caught dancing in the woods, fecklessly accused countless innocent people in the village of Salem of being witches. To make The 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...

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 Importance of Non-Conformity Thomas Paine once wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls." He of course was speaking of the difficulty the colonists faced during the Revolutionary war. However, we see that throughout history there have been numerous times when man has been ...

The CrucibleWritten by Arthur MillerCharacter SketchIt was with ardent horror that the prehistoric man first witnessed a solar eclipse---the sun swallowed by the predator moon until all light ceased and darkness fell on to the land. We, the more enlightened descendants, have also suffered eclipses....