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...

The Communist "witch hunts" of the 1950s prompted Arthur Miller to write about the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials in his play, The Crucible. Miller captured the paranoia and hatred of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and made a controversial reference to his own society's Witch Hu...

The Crucible, essentially an allegory, uses the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials to symbolize the 1950s anti-Communist purges (Bloom). Arthur Miller's Crucible was first presented in New York on January 22, 1953, when Senator Joeseph McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities was ca...

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...

Texts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; The Crucible, Nicholas Hytner production of Arthur Miller's screenplay Question: Explain how the authors of the two texts present similar ideas, although they tell different stories. When ideas surpass both time and place, it is only logi...

The story of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, revolves around the witchcraft hysteria and human vengeance that plague Salem and split the town into those who use the trials for their own ends and those who desire the good of the society. It is this paradox that Miller finds to be a major theme of...

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...

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 ...

The Crucible by Arthur Miller Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it's doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. ...

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...

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...

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...

General Topic: Religion in a society. Thesis: How does religion help to persecute the innocent? Religion is a hard word to define, for the simple fact that it has two meanings, well, according to me anyway. It can either be seen as a theory or idea of a superior being(s), a being/ beings that is/...

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 ...

With The Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists by the people of America. The dramatist was born in Manhattan in October 17, 1915, to Isadore and Agusta M...