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...

The word \"crucible\" has multiple meanings, including trial, ordeal, and test. Crucibles are pots or vessels made of a refractory substance, such as graphite or porcelain, to melt and purify metals at high temperatures. Arthur Miller chose to title his play \"The Crucible\" because most of the them...

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...

"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller discusses the insanity of the largest witch-hunts called the Salem Witch Trails. The people of Salem followed a strict, Puritan faith, and it was considered evil to do anything like dancing. People in Salem believed strongly in witchcraft, and in 1692 an out...

The historic happenings of the Salem Witch Trials are told in the story of the Crucible. In the Crucible, the main character is John Proctor. John Proctor is a tragic hero who is a great man but has one single flaw, pride, which will lead to his destruction. John Proctor is considered the to be a...

The Crucible EssayThe story The Crucible takes place during the times of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. This was a time of much hypocrisy in the people of the town of Salem. Many people believed anything they heard or saw. Although The Crucible is fictitious, the story depicts the histo...

Almost everyone is familiar with the Salem witch trials and how the people with no land had a grudge against the people with land so they accused everyone on the side where the land was as a witch. Also people are familiar with \"On the Waterfront,\" where poor people are controlled by a big mob and...

Do Not Pay for More Than You ReceiveMartin Luther King Jr. once stated, "Freedom has always been an expensive thing." This statement has been a fact of the world before money was invented. In "The Crucible", by Arthur Miller, it is shown that one thing in the world that is definitely worth fighti...

Arthur Miller wrote "The crucible" in 1953 in the middle of the McCarthy political 'witch hunt' in America. "McCarthyism" was a period of paranoia in the US in the1950's where politicians, public officials and people in the music industry were persecuted for supposedly being communists (enemies of t...

Throughout history, whether it is real, or in literature, the act of false accusation has proved to send a large group of people into an uproar. In my reading of the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, and the short story "The Very Proper Gander" by James Thurber, this point w...

Can a person's opinion equal their fate? In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, John Proctor's stand in a society where opinion drove fate created ignominy towards him and his beliefs. First he hid his horrible sin inside, fearing the consequences. When he finally did, he was placed in a tangled labyrinth...

The Crucible's Themes In the play, The Crucible, the playwright Arthur Miller portrayed many different themes. He uses real life events from the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 to show that fear and suspicion are infectious and can produce a mass hysteria that destroys public order and rational...

language in the crucible -one of the most remarkable aspects of the crucible is miler's creationof believable dialogue for his 17th century puritansalthough partly based on what he found in salem records, most of it ishis own inventionit is convincingly old-fashioned without it being hard to underst...

"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 Essay In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the character of Reverand Hale undergoes a transformation, one more remarkable than that of any other character in the play. In the first act of the play, Hale is portrayed as an eager-eyed intellectual, whose expertise on witchc...

The Crucible In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible the main characters contribute to the chaos that is aroused in Salem. Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Thomas Putnam and all contribute to the chaos surrounding the trials. If it had not been for these people most of the men and women...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible are both distinctly different narratives of the Salem Witch trials. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is a play. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible mainly deals with w...

Adaora OnyemelukweHour:1Date: 10-23-99John Proctor was the main character in the play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Will the truth set you free? In Proctor's case of choosing truth over deceit he was redeemed and set free spiritually. The setting of the play was in the 1690's during...

THE CRUCIBLEFrom the beginning of time until now deceptive individuals will conduct in such a matter that their fears and suspicions will take advantage of their actions causing them to behave in an immoral and irrational manner. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Abigail and other characters of the ...

THE CRUCIBLE "It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were but naked know" (proctor). In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, neighbors accuse each other of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692. They disguise their human failings and secular concerns wi...

The Crucible Essay Everyone in this world has morals, ad that is good in that morals keep the peace in most situations. When someone dismisses their own personal integrity, they not only impact themselves but the whole community. Two examples of this is one in the year 1962, Salem Massachusett...

In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller explores good verses evil. Miller sets his play in Salem Massachusetts during the witch trials in the late 1600s that he found very similar to the Red Hunt in the 1950s. Miller sets a group of young ladies in a time where children did not speak until spoken to...

Comparing the play to the production.Stories are told differently and they affect us in different ways, Arthur Millers "The Crucible" is no exception. The Hollywood production strikes people more effectively than the history in written articles. You can read all the articles you want on the holoca...

Kathleen Mahoney American Literature The Crucible Arthur Miller's The Crucible is an exciting and suspenseful play depicting the horrors of the Salem witch trials. Miller uses the theme of truth and righteousness to show the absurdity of the incident. The theme is conveyed through the str...

The Crucible Evaluation When Arthur Miller sat down to write the Crucible, it is obvious he took many things into account. The presentation of the book is very well thought out. As for the history aspect of the book, it is obvious that he did a lot of research even though there are still some d...