"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...

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 ...

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 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...

Arthur Miller's The Crucible takes a hard look at some of the ugliest moments in American history. He uses the actual historical event of the Salem witch trials to serve as a metaphorical representation of the pressure to conform to societal norms. The theocratic government of Salem, Massachusetts ...