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- 41: The Crucible 4
- ... those suspected of witchcraft. It was at this point that the Salem witch trials began and would later be the plot of a major 19th century play. It was 1953 when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, which translates to "the test", a play based on the actual events of the witch trials in Salem during 1692. Although Miller s play is a strong story about what took place in Salem Village ... the Salem witchcraft trials, he strongly shows the many tests that were laid upon the characters and goes out of his way to sum up the way they were handled. Almost every character in The Crucible was tested such as John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Reverend John Hale. John Proctor, supposedly culpable of taking part in witchcraft, is a great example of a character being put to the test. The court ... wants him to live. We see an example of this in Act four when Parris shouts "Praise be to the Lord", after Mr. Proctor signs the confession form. I think at the end of The Crucible, Reverend Parris feels that what was important to him before is no longer. I also feel that he has been beaten since John did not do what he wanted him to. Reverend John Hale, ...
- 42: The Crucible and Similarities to The McCarthy Era
- The Crucible and Similarities to The McCarthy Era Many times history tends to repeat itself. During the late 1600s witch hunts occurred in Massachusetts; over two hundred years later a similar witch hunt occurred in the search for communists during the McCarthy era. The playwright Arthur Miller made connections between these two events, which seem entirely unrelated. He showed that they were actually strikingly similar in his play The Crucible. These times were of hypocrisy and hysteria. Many similarities are evident between the two periods such as the instability of the people as well as the amount and abuse of powers certain people exhibited in ... hunts were irrational and should not be going on. The author of the play, Miller understood this in the 1950s. So did people in the late seventeenth century, as portrayed by Miller in The Crucible. Once such character in the play was that of John Proctor. Miller tried to fight the hunt for communists by not giving McCarthy any names when he was called to testify before a House ...
- 43: The Crucible
- Arthur Millers play, The Crucible, is a very powerful statement about Puritan ethics in the 17th century. The play depicts a character, John Proctor, against both his inner conscience to do what is right, and against the courts of Salem, where he is involved in a crucible to rid the city of witches. These circumstances arise for Proctor because of his affair with Abigail Williams, the leader of the girls who have started the witch hysteria,. Throughout the play, Proctor is depicted ... hero. A tragic hero is an individual, usually the protagonist, who the audience recognizes as a "good guy," but who possesses a "character flaw" leading to his or her downfall. In the case of The Crucible, John Proctor fits this model of a tragic hero. He is the protagonist of the novel, and is seen as a good all-around person. But his character flaw, his passiveness, led to his ...
- 44: The Crucible: Background Notes
- The Crucible: Background Notes PART B Arthur Miller was an American play writer and novelist. He was born in New York on Oct. 17, 1915, and attended the University of Michigan. He began his career as a ... he was awarded for dramatic arts from The National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1959. As an American writer, Arthur Miller published dramas including: All My Sons (1947) Death of a Salesman (1949) The Crucible (1953) A View from the Bridge (1955) A Memory of Two Mondays (1955) After the Fall (1963) Incident at Vichy (1964) The Price (1968) The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) Arthur Miller ... persecution. The first settlement found by the Puritans was Jamestown, located in Virginia. Other settlements were also founded by the Puritans this way, one being Boston. Salem Witch Hunts In reality, the story of "The Crucible" is a recreation of certain events that went on during the early 1700's. Because of dramatic purposes, some of the characters characteristics have been combined into one character. The number of people in ...
- 45: Pride In The Crucible
- I never sold myself! I m a good girl! I m a proper girl! said Abigail Williams in The Crucible (p.40) That and, They must not blackening my name more than anything are what we hear the most when it comes the time to save your name. People with excessive pride would risk to ... make sure nobody would spoil their name. They would even accused their neighbours of the worse crime so they would still be part of the good side of the society. In the drama play The Crucible, this is basically what happen to the main characters. Every single move they do, every single word they say and every single thought they have is made in function of what people would think. Accused ... truth from the community. The only thing he gains from this is weight on his mind and a white name. As you may have notice, pride is one of the most important theme in The Crucible. The main character of the play is John Proctor. Back in time, he had an affair with Abigail Williams and what seemed to be some kind of little detail ends up being the main ...
- 46: The Crucible Shows Characterization Through The Experiences Of John Proctor
- The Crucible shows characterization through the experiences of John Proctor Louise Rosenblatt said that literature provides "experiences that it would not be either possible or wise to introduce into our lives" and thus enlarges our "Knowledge of the world" and "ability to understand and sympathize with others." This Quote by Louise Rosenblatt applies to Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Arthur Miller's The Crucible shows characterization through the experiences of John Proctor. The first experience of John Proctor assists the reader in understanding him in his disagreements with Reverend Parris early in Act One. He says to the ...
- 47: Social deterioration in "The Crucible"
- Social deterioration in "The Crucible" The deterioration of Salem's social structure precipitated the murders of many innocent people. Arthur Miller's depiction of the Salem witch trials, The Crucible, deals with a community that starts out looking like it is tightly knit and church loving. It turns out that once Tituba starts pointing her finger at the witches, the community starts pointing their fingers ... and the unexplained turned neighbor against neighbor. The social breakdown in Salem was the major factor in the tragedy that took the lives of many innocent people. There was more than one tragedy in The Crucible. The first was the murdering of many innocent people, and the second was that a community that was once very close had been broken apart. It appeared that the people of Salem were like ...
- 48: The Crucible
- ... those suspected of witchcraft. It was at this point that the Salem witch trials began and would later be the plot of a major 19th century play. It was 1953 when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, which translates to "the test", a play based on the actual events of the witch trials in Salem during 1692. Although Millers play is a strong story about what took place in Salem Village ... the Salem witchcraft trials, he strongly shows the many tests that were laid upon the characters and goes out of his way to sum up the way they were handled. Almost every character in The Crucible was tested such as John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Reverend John Hale. John Proctor, supposedly culpable of taking part in witchcraft, is a great example of a character being put to the test. The court ... wants him to live. We see an example of this in Act four when Parris shouts "Praise be to the Lord", after Mr. Proctor signs the confession form. I think at the end of The Crucible, Reverend Parris feels that what was important to him before is no longer. I also feel that he has been beaten since John did not do what he wanted him to. Reverend John Hale, ...
- 49: The Crucible
- As I watched "The Crucible" taking shape as a movie over much of the past year, the sheer depth of time that it represents for me kept returning to mind. As those powerful actors blossomed on the screen, and the ... her minister-uncle's money majestic Paul Scofield (Judge Danforth) and his righteous empathy with the Devil-possessed children, and all of them looking as inevitable as rain. I remember those years-- they formed "The Crucible" 's skeleton--but I have lost the dead weight of the fear I had then. Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies ... off. There was magic all around; the politics of alien conspiracy soon dominated political discourse and bid fair to wipe out any other issue. How could one deal with such enormities in a play? "The Crucible" was an act of des- peration. Much of my desperation branched out, I suppose, from a typical Depression--era trauma--the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the ...
- 50: The Crucible 2
- The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in the late 17th century during the famous yet tragic witch trials. It is a story that contains the many struggles that came about as ... to offer explanations for the events in the Salem witch trials. The buried suspicions and hatred underneath a veneer of composure and politeness required by a strict society were released with the first accusation. The Crucible simplifies the causes to create a more interesting story, but in reality, the reasons for the witch craft accusations were more complex. In this time, the ministers of the church held most of the power ... many were all too willing to falsify any dealings with the devil and accepted their guilt. With an admission of guilt and a vow never to misbehave again, they could be pitied and released. The Crucible is useful in its portrayal of the hysteria that was rampant in the era of the Salem Witch trials. Arthur Miller wrote this play as an allegory to show people the insanity of the ...
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