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...

It had been a few years since I had last attended to play. I had just seen the movie version of The Crucible and was incredibly excited about getting a chance to watch a theatrical presentation of it. When I first heard that I'd get the chance to see it I was very excited that I could hardly wait...

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...

"It's funny how all living organisms are alike. When the chips are down, when the pressure's on, every creature on the face of the earth is interested in one thing and one thing only. Its own survival." These words, spoken by Dr. Iris Henimen to John Anderton in the film, Minority Repor...

Title: The Setting og Arthur Miller's The CrucibleWord Count: 1 748 wordsAuthor: "Sylvester the Cat" The Crucible, Arthur Miller's sixth play, is a study in moral values and honesty. The author puts in the spotlight John Proctor and examines his motives and explores his personal moral stand...

Arthur Miller portrays a world corrupt with vengeance and malevolent intent in his play "The Crucible." The play follows the lives of John and Elizabeth Proctor and the entire Salem community, as they battle accusations of witchery. As Elizabeth is accused of witchery by Abigail, a young girl seeki...

Explain how dramatic tension is built up in Act Three of 'The Crucible', paying particular attention to the character of John Proctor. How is the historical context of the play relevant to the audience's response to this act? During act three of 'The Crucible' Mill...

"You're the Devil's man!" (118), Mary Warren cried out when she accused John Proctor of working for the devil. Courage is defined as mental or moral strength to face danger without fear. This is supported in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Throughout the Salem witch ...

Conscience in The CrucibleConscience is the awareness of right and wrong. In the Crucible, the idea of conscience in strongly emphasized. Miller himself said, "No critic seemed to sense what I was after [which was] the conflict between a man's raw deeds and his conception of himself; the question of...

Hysteria is displayed by communities all over the world. It is an important factor in making and especially breaking relationships. In Arthur Millers, The Crucible, hysteria plays an important role of tearing apart the community of Salem by creating an environment where people act on their grudges...

Moral conflict in The Crucible.By Charlotte B.Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, is a great portrayal of humans and their struggles. This play takes place in the 1690's in Salem, a small Puritan community based on a rigid social system, where an outbreak of rumors claiming witchcraft contaminated t...

Back in the 1950's, when insecurity permeated the air, and people were ruled by fear, Arthur Miller wrote a play, which defined the line between insecurity and fear. The Crucible was a remade story of the carnal Salem Witch trials, in which many innocent victims lost their lives. Through this play M...

Over the past few decades, Arthur Miller has become a well known American playwright. He has won numerous awards and is credited for doing amazing work. Miller was born in lower Manhattan in 1915. His family moved to Brooklyn during The Great Depression where his father worked as a ladies-wear...

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...

Protagonist: The Crucible By: In the Crucible, Arthur Miller is not clear about whom he intended to be true protagonist of the story. When reading the story, one comes across two major characters who are able to fit this role, John Proctor, and Reverend Hale. However if one truly comprehends ea...

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....

What makes us humans different from elephants, snakes or chimps besides our shape? We have consciences, of course. Conscience is the awareness of right and wrong. In the Crucible, the idea of conscience in strongly emphasized. Miller himself said, "No critic seemed to sense what I was after [which w...

'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...

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 ...

Arthur Miller is a talented and well-known playwright. Over the years, he has produced many plays; each addressing different issues, time periods, and historical events. Two of his most well known works are Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Miller states in his essay "Tragedy and the Common...

The Crucibal-Abigail williams Abigail Williams In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller Abigail Williams would have to be the leader of the witch-hunt. She seems like the kind of girl who has to be in power and that will go to great lengths to get what she wants. She was the first one who answe...

The Different Similarities Every society puts man's strength and ability to survive to the test. Everyone comes across a hard path during his or her life sooner or later. How they choose to do so is up to the individual. In the works The Crucible and Guilty by Suspicion, John Proctor and David...

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...

The moral dilemma's presented in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are predicaments distinctly connected to early American society. The Puritan church, America's first community forum and system of social organization, provided a strict rule of individual lifestyle that encompassed dai...