The Gender Injustice of Arthur Miller An Analysis of The Crucible Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible takes place in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ and is based on the historical event that took place there known as the Salem witch trials. The play centers around John Proctor‚ a farmer hiding a past affair with a girl several years his junior; Abigail Williams‚ a seventeen-year-old girl who is both John Proctor’s mistake and the catalyst for the tragic events that unfold in Salem‚ taking the lives of
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provides us with a sense of amusement which given the situation is a trait we do not see from many of the characters. Miller makes us respond like this through Corey’s laidback‚ easygoing outlook on life and particularly the witch hunts which are currently occurring; also his loyalty is emphasised through his final sacrifice. In Act 1 our initial impression of Corey is influenced by Millers description of him as an “independent” character who “didn’t give a hoot for public opinion” – this makes us see
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Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a social commentary on witch hunts in early America‚ as well as an Aristotelian tragedy. In Aristotle’s essay Poetics‚ Aristotle explains that a character flaw (imperfection or weakness in one’s personality or values) or an error in judgment can lead to tragedy. The word for this is hamartia. Aristotle also goes on to state that the tragic hero will find enlightenment through his or her lamentable situation. In Miller’s play there are two characters in particular
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Arthur Miller‚ the author of The Crucible‚ lived through the 1950’s. During that time‚ there was a fear of communist ideas‚ and Americans had a campaign against it. Experiencing this time period had a lot of influence on the reasoning behind Miller writing this play. The Crucible was a play on the hysteria that was produced when the U.S. government sought to suppress Communism and radical leftism activity in America (Thirteen). McCarthyism and personal experiences during that time are two of the
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and many other subjects. The following are the balances in the accounts for Joan Miller Advertising Agency as of January 31‚ 2001: Cash Accounts Receivable Fees Receivable Art Supplies Office Supplies Prepaid Rent Prepaid Insurance Art Equipment Accumulated Depreciation‚ Art eq. Office Equipment Accumulated Depreciation – Office Eq. Accounts Payable Unearned Art Fees Wages Payable Joan Miller‚ Capital Totals Debit Credit $1‚720 2‚800 200 1‚300 600 400 440 4‚200
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The book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller takes place in the 1670’s in Salem‚ Massachusetts. The book is about the event better known as “The Salem Witch Trials” that happened when a girl named Abby had a seizure and the people of Salem believed that she was cursed by a witch. So‚ Abby decided to take an advantage of what the people of Salem thought‚ she then began to chose people she did not like or what other people had against and she would call the people out as a witch. She just had
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Scene 8‚ page 69 (What’s this tone of voice?) page 72 (end of scene). How far is the dramatic presentation of Gellburg and Sylvia in this extract typical of‚ and significant within‚ the play as a whole? Broken Glass‚ a play by Arthur Miller set in Brooklyn‚ 1938‚ focuses on the dwindling marriage of Sylvia and Gellburg during the aftermath of Kristallnacht. This scene unravels the complex relationship of the two and how they finally come to terms with the fundamental flaws in their marital relationship
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Resource Center Houghton‚ Donald E. "Attitude and Illness in James’ ’Daisy Miller’." Literature and Psychology19.1 (1969): 51-60. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Nancy G. Dziedzic. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research‚ 1996. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1420025344&v=2.1&u=wash89460&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Title: Attitude and Illness in James’ ’Daisy Miller’ Author(s): Donald E. Houghton Publication Details: Literature and Psychology 19
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Miller Williams work ‘The Book’in no fluff poem that spouts out about love and hope‚ but rather an unsettling piece which brings into question the more evil aspects of human nature. It tells the reader of a journal which our narrator struggles and contemplates the existence of and shows how his overall views of it changed once learning the journal he used to record and encapsulate his life has the binding of human skin. Historical context‚(). Rhetorical devices such as () and the overall structure
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Miller often experiments with narrative style and technique. For example‚ Miller includes lengthy exposition pieces that read as stage directions within The Crucible. At first glance‚ it seems that an audi- ence must either read the information in the program or listen to a long- winded narrator. Upon further inspection however‚ it becomes apparent that Miller’s inclusion of background material allows actors and directors to study character motivation and internalize the information‚ thereby portraying
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