John Proctor compromised the reputation of his name, and values that he cherishes by having an affair with Abigail Williams. This flaw will forever haunt him. Arthur Miller uses symbolism and irony to support the central idea that Proctor can either die honorably or live a lie.…
Sequential to the 1692 Salem witch trials, Author Arthur Miller transcribed the mishaps and vindictive behavior in his play The Crucible, which portrays the hysteria and consternation of the town. An exemplar woman named Elizabeth Proctor exhibits the arbitrary and discriminatory circumstances. In distinguishing, unlikeness Mary Warren impersonates a girl whose hesitancy and uncertainty guides her to condemn many lives. The play depicts the inequitable mobocracy and unjustified perpetrations provoked by self-indulgence and greed.…
Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" was an allegory to the well-known mass hysteria, the Red Scare. Many mass hysterias have occurred before and after the Red Scare like Y2K, War of the Worlds, and Muslims in the U.S.…
Fear was one of the most important things which shaped society but as Miller wrote in his book lies were affected society almost in the same way. Abigail, the main character in The Crucible, uses intimidation to create an atmosphere of fear that pervades the entire play. In act one, she tried to scared girls for do not tell the truth: "Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you . . . I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" This treat predicted Abigail's accusations of…
About an outsider washed up on an inhabited island and is taken in but is later sent back out because of incompatibility…
The salem witch trials took place in 1692, back then people believed almost everything they were told. When a well known reverend discovered his daughter, niece, slave, and a couple of girls from town dancing and singing in the woods, his first instinct was to rush over and confront the girls. When he got there the girls faked fainting to try and avoid getting in trouble, by doing so they made the reverend thing witchcraft was among them. He eminently falsely accused his salve for the girls odd behavior, he also summoned reverend Hale who was an “expert” in the field of witchcraft. By doing this reverend parris sealed many of the villagers fait with know, but only time would tell.…
Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do? The Crucible by Arthur Miller. This story is about innocent people being accused of witchcraft by a group of girls. These accusations get out of hand and innocent people are being hanged. There are three main themes in The Crucible and they are Guilt, Irony and Deception.…
In unit 5, we studied how the feeling of fear can either be a good thing or a bad thing towards our emotions. Fear is something that can make someone feel good or bad. The first way can be something very good, as in helping yourself find a way to overcome it and get over something that you never thought you could get over. Within unit 5, the first quality that made me understand that the feeling of fear as being a harmful emotion is making you feel scared. “She made me do it.…
How many societies have been torn apart and destroyed due to the fear of something unknown or “unnatural”? Three of different occasions come to mind when thinking about the idea of a society being destroyed or even just rocked by fear and suspicion. The first of which is depicted in The Crucible written about the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in the early 1950’s which was when another of the three occasions was taking place. The United States was in the midst of the Cold War with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The paranoia and suspicion of Communist spies in the United States was great. The United States had trials much like those in the Salem Witchcraft Trials to find those people who were not what they said they were. The other occasion that comes to mind is the Holocaust in the late 1930’s thru about 1945. During the time of the Holocaust Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, took over European countries and imprisoned all Jews and other minorities they found that Hitler believed were the reason they lost World War I and he feared them and the possibility that they may try and take him out of power.…
In The Crucible, the author displays the power that fear and suspicion have over people through the divine will of the main characters as it spreads throughout the community. During act three of The Crucible, Mary Warren was taken in front of the court to confess the lies and suspicion that the young girls were spreading throughout the town. While trying to confess, Mary was pressured into irrational fear of being convicted of being a witch, because of this Mary turned against Mr.Proctor, accusing him of witchcraft. Without thinking Mary let her fear control her actions, which resulted in the arrest of John Proctor. People would rather make decisions based on avoiding fear then facing them, finding the easy way out of a bad situation.…
Mass hysteria can exist when a number of people behave in an uncontrollable, unmanageable way because of fear and/or anger. Arthur Miller easily shows this in the play The Crucible which takes place in the late 1600’s in Salem, Massachusetts when more than one-hundred people were getting accused of being witches. United State Senator Joseph McCarthy had done something similar to this when he had accused many people of being “Reds” or communists during the Red Scare going throughout the United States.Human nature prompts mass hysteria \because people with good reputations start it and it’s more likely for people to believe them and also mass hysteria occurs when people want to get back at someone for something they want. Media might bring people…
Fear plays a great role in the story, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Fear is in everyone who lives in the town of Salem, including the accusers. The accusers are scared to be found fraud so they accuse those who know the truth of witchcraft, and the accused are scared for their lives if they do not confess. Fear rules over Salem in this dark time and it does not end until the trials are over every person that was accused got mete.…
Fear is simply a four-letter word, yet it can infect an entire world. McCarthyism in America during the late 1940s and early 1950s was driven by the fear of power rising in communist ideas. Author, Arthur Miller, paralleled the paranoia to the Puritans during the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693. In Miller’s play, The Crucible, seven young girls found power in the town of Salem and exploited their new control by accusing the townspeople of witchcraft. Fear inspired by witchcraft drove the trials to extremes. The impact of creating and exploiting public hysteria to obtain power ultimately creates fear and greater damage.…
It is only human nature to succumb to and delve into the knowledge of the unknown or of…
Arthur Miller is a great author that uses many forms of syntax, figurative language, and diction to enhance his writing throughout The Crucible. Miller uses figurative language throughout The Crucible, to put emphasis on certain ideas and things. Miller also uses diction in The Crucible to show that the story is taking place in the past and to give the story a more biblical feel to it. One other thing that Arthur Miller does really well is his use of syntax. He uses syntax throughout The Crucible to show the intelligence levels of different characters. Miller uses these three different things in combination throughout The Crucible to enhance the story and to tell the story of the witch craft trials in an insightful way.…