The Crucible The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change of development ,it is fixated on the Salem witch trials. Although the witch trials is the main aspect of the play , other topics should be looked u...

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...

Title: The Setting og Arthur Miller's The CrucibleWord Count: 1 748 wordsAuthor: "Sylvester the Cat" The Crucible, Arthur Miller's sixth play, is a study in moral values and honesty. The author puts in the spotlight John Proctor and examines his motives and explores his personal moral stand...

The Scarlett letter and The Crucible have many similar themes. Three of these themes are religion, vengeance, and sin. The authors of these works used these themes to express the extreme situations that occurred during the late 1600s, and in a certain way to mock the Puritan lifestyle.One of the mos...

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

Boredom and Its Victims in Arthur Miller's The Crucible When bored, people tend to portray or act differently to either attract attention or change society. The girls in The Crucible are bored of Puritan life and want to do more to get more fun out of Salem life. Boredom led the girls...

Back in the 1950's, when insecurity permeated the air, and people were ruled by fear, Arthur Miller wrote a play, which defined the line between insecurity and fear. The Crucible was a remade story of the carnal Salem Witch trials, in which many innocent victims lost their lives. Through this play M...

It was as if the devil himself has cast a spell of dark magic upon the village. The desperate struggle to keep witchcraft in check and save the society backfires. The horrific end result of the hysteric witch-hunt is the hanging of nineteen people, and that destroyed the lives of many more. The ferv...

"The Crucible" Strengths and weaknesses Both John and Elizabeth have their strengths and their weaknesses. John acknowledges that what he did (the affair) was wrong, is sorry, and has tried to amend the situation, he has tried to make it up to Elizabeth. His weakness was having the af...

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...

If Arthur Miller's play The Crucible were only about the witch-hunt for communist sympathizers in government in the early 1950's, it would be a literary anachronism, a historical artifact with little impact on contemporary audiences. This, however, is not the case. The play retains its em...

Hysteria in SalemHysteria is defined as the behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess. Fear, can produce a state of general hysteria that results in the destruction of public order and rationality. The breakdown in Salem, Massachusetts leads to a tragedy in which ma...