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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

Many of literature's finest works have been a response against a social or political situation. The French Revolution was documented, romantically if not accurately, by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, and Victor Hugo in his masterpiece, Les Miserables. An excellent example of a modern event...

1.How the events and the characters of the play relate to the theme "power"In The Crucible it is the effects of religious zeal, fear of heresy, intolerance and superstition that made the people of Salem willing to accept supernatural reasons for their problems. There is so much insecurity in the you...

The play The Crucible is a remarkable story written by Arthur Miller which revolves around the Salem Witch Trials and, the girl who initiated and continued them, to save herself. This play successfully demonstrates the role of women throughout the time period by showing numerous angles surrounding...

Historical Overview and Brief Analysis Amidst millenniums of debate, argument, and conflict concerning racial prejudges and those issues which surround their implementation, there has consistently existed a certain historical prejudice regarding various stereotypical ideas for those things which...