The Crucible is a story filled with different feelings and emotions. It is about a town, after accusations from a few girls, which begins a mad hunt for witches that do not exist. The author Arthur Miller, brings out several themes throughout this dark and eerie tale. Three themes; hypocrisy, r...

The Crucible The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller and, in the Northern production, directed by Deborah Barton-Moore. The play is set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, where suspicions of witchcraft were floating around the town air. The play opens with Betty Parris sick in bed, and R...

In Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible", the people of Salem are very concerned with the truth, the truth is different depending on who is telling it, and people use their version of the truth to benefit themselves. Three people in the play use the accusations of witches to portray their true natur...

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...

On one level, The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about the damaging effects of fear. The setting takes place in Salem during the colonial era of America, a time when the punishment for being a witch is death. One night, a group of Salem girls decided to go out into the forest to perform some wi...

The CruciblePeople sometimes let their pride get in the way of doing what is right, and allow bad things to happen just because they are too proud to stop them. In Arthur Miller's novel The Crucible he demonstrates the human trait of pride through many characters such as Judge Danforth, Reverend Pa...

1.Intolerance was one theme in the crucible. Since the story was set in a puritan society where the church and government were one. This made sin and the status of an individual's soul matters of public concern. If the life one lead was immoral they could be punished by the state. Anything that ...

The Crucible is a play about witchcraft. It all begins with a group of young women playing with witchcraft taught by Tituba and Abigail William's. Reverend Parris found them and most of the girls scattered but the smallest girls stayed, frozen with fear. The people of Salem, where the ...

There is a lot of confusion is the play The Crucible as to what the certain motivations of the characters in the play is. Why are some of the characters lying about "sightings" of the devil with certain people they are trying to get rid of? The motivations of John Proctor, and Reverend Hale haven'...

Many comparisons can be made between unlikely characters in the Crucible. Reverend Hale and Reverend Parris, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are two sets of these unlikely characters. Reverend Hale and Reverend Parris can surprisingly be compared and easily contrasted. Abigail Williams and E...

In the story of the Crucible, by Arthur Miller, he tells of Colonial times and some of the issues the colonists faced. His main focus, however, dealt with the mental and emotional flaws of the early American people. Throughout the story we see how fear and suspicion can take over a person, and cause...

There is a lot of confusion is the play The Crucible as to what the certain motivations of the characters in the play is. Why are some of the characters lying about "sightings" of the devil with certain people they are trying to get rid of? The motivations of John Proctor, and Reverend H...

When the Puritans moved to the New World they created a new society based upon perfect devotion to the strict and intolerant Puritan philosophy. However, the idea could not hold because the people themselves were blends of their European ancestries. Puritan philosophy was fixed in the search for spi...

The CrucibleToday, Salem, Massachusetts, is a prospering community, yet, only about 300 years ago, it was plagued by death from the notion of witchcraft. Known as the Salem Witch Trials, many people were falsely blamed by others because their death or imprisonment would somehow be beneficial to oth...

Study Guide to Arthur Miller's The Crucible Act One A. The opening argument between Parris and Abby 1. The basic concern under discussion in this scene is Betty's health. In this scene Reverend Parris and Abigail discuss Betty's condition and how Parris saw Abigail, Tituba, and...

Life is dictated by an inborn hunger or purpose, and people, in general, will act on this hunger for their own personal gain in their individual ways. This hunger, be it for wealth, land, love, power, revenge, or pride, can, and will be the undoing or failing of all mankind as Arthur Miller so cl...

In the times of the Puritans, ministers were seen as unfaltering men of God, but in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, we are introduced to two ministers who are anything but perfect. Reverend Dimmesdale of The Scarlet Letter and Reverend Parris of T...

When the topic of a Puritanical society is brought up, most people think of a rigorous, conservative, highly devout society. While this may have usually been the case, this was not always so. The Puritan society was also known not to act out of brotherly, "Christian love", but to cruelly lash ou...

Do you ever realize how influential hysteria can be? Hysteria is an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear often characterized by irrationality. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, hysteria plays a significant role in tearing apart a community. Reverend Samuel Parris, John Proctor and Abi...

Subject- The Salem witch trialsSetting- Salem village in Massachussetts 1692Main Characters- Abigail Williams-the oldest of the girls that accused others of witchery and the leader once was a servent of the Proctors. Parris- Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem the father of Elizabeth Parris and uncle of...

The CrucibleAct OneThis book starts of in the first act laying down the foundation on how Salem was based. The author starts by telling in which how Salem was during the trials. It was a hard working town that people had strict values on how they based their lives upon. Books were rarely read, an...