The Crucible was published in1953 and was written Arthur Miller. There were three major themes in the book. They were personal liberty, the need for integrity, and the human bond. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The Crucible is based on different people of that time being ...

Themes in "The Crucible" The play The Crucible introduces us to some vital insights by the themes presented throughout it. One of these themes is that fear and suspicion are infectious and can produce a state of general hysteria that results in the destruction of public order and ration...

Elizabeth and Abigail The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a story about a group of girls who selfishly accuse people of witchcraft to save themselves. The accused people are put on trial. These trials are known as the Salem Witchcraft Trials. This is known as a cr...

It is true that Arthur Miller's play and Nicholas Hytner's, 'The Crucible' makes truth claims and invite their audience to view the Salem Witch trails in a certain way. Both directors use deliberate manipulation to ensure that the audience perceived the Salem Witch Trails in a ...

"The Crucible:" A Lesson Learned from Salem 1692 Does the Salem Witch Trial from 1692 offer any modern day lesson for America? Often authors and playwrights use their art to teach lessons to the people who read, view, and enjoy their works. Often artists will use a real life event...

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...

Arthur Miller's play The Crucible exploits the mass hysteria taken place during the Salem witch trials - the mass hysteria that caused people to turn against one another, making false claims of associating with the Devil, killing innocent babies, and practicing witchcraft. However, that isn't the ...

Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible' was produced in 1953 in the middle of the McCarthy political 'witch-hunt' in America. Under the chairmanship of Senator Joseph McCarthy the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) became paranoid in searching for Communists, ex-Com...

The Crucible is a play that explains the story of the Salem Witch Delusion. Arthur Miller, the acclaimed playwright, is the author of this performance. McCarthyism played a vast role in the creation of The Crucible. Many parallels were drawn between the play and the Red Scare. The Red Scare ...

The title of Author Miller's play the Crucible fits the story in many ways. Thereare many definitions for a crucible but mainly two of them fit the story most. Thefirst definition of a crucible is a melting pot that chemist and alchemists used to mixmetals, but in order to melt the metals down they ...

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 ...

A Study of Literary Spokespeople in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"Arthur Miller wrote many dramas in which he analyzed human behavior in society. One of his more famous dramas included The Crucible (1953), a story about the paranoia and conspiracy of the Salem witch trials. During the 1950s, the U...

The Crucible & Era Evaluation In 1953, a man by the name of Arthur Miller wrote a play not only as a historical allusion, but more specifically a piece based on criticism and comparison. The Crucible it was named. Miller, by implying the Salem witch trials was similar to that of the actions by Wi...

In the play, The Crucible, many parallels can be found in reference to the 1950 Communist trials led by Joe McCarthy. In this work by Arthur Miller, the events of the 1692 Salem witch trials parallel those of the McCarthy trials, in that, both events were not only based on insubstantial evidence bu...

Often throughout history, mistakes that had been made repeated themselves over and over. There are many different examples of this, but one example is the obvious similarities between the witch-hunts in Salem and the era of McCarthyism. If we take the time to look at both eventssimultaneously we ar...

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...

In the early 1950's there was an outcry of communism in the United States known as the McCarthy Era. Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that there was a communist conspiracy with the federal government and accused people of being communists. The idea of accusing people of being communists spread an...

In the late 1600's, a tragedy fed by lies and personal grudges swept the town of Salem, Massachusetts. This tragedy was called the Salem Witchcraft Trials, where 20 innocent people were put to death based solely on the accusations of others. These others were also just girls who tried to s...

A political cartoon shows a massive stone wall surrounding tall office buildings which bear labels of "Department of Energy," "Defense Department," "National Security Agency," "CIA," and "FBI." Outside the wall, which is tagged "Government Secrecy," a couple huddles in a roofless hut called "Person...

THEY WALK IN SHADOWS, have long black beards, a dark complexion and are of Middle Eastern appearance. They hijack planes and bomb innocent people. Who you ask? Muslims. Terrorists. Arabs. The fundamentalist demons of the 21st century of which we have all become so afraid. And why are we so afraid?...

In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, started a trial and investigation of communism in the Hollywood motion picture industry. The Committee, including Chairman J. Parnell Thomas a young Congressman from California, and Richard M. Nixon tried many celebrities asking them ...

The 1950's were right at the end of the great depression which was only prevented because of the World War that this nation was pulled into. Therefore many individuals found it difficult to live in that hard time period. Just as the United States citizens began to return to normal from this chaos,...