It is common knowledge that Author Miller wrote The Crucible as a reaction to a tragic time in our countries history. The McCarthy hearings‚ as they came to be known‚ which dominated our country from 1950 to 1954‚ where hearings in which many‚ suspected of being related to communism‚ where interviewed and forced to give up names of others‚ or they where imprisoned‚ and their names were black listed. There are several parallels between the McCarthy Era‚ and the time of the Salem which trials. One
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The Crucible Act 4 Three villains in The Crucible are Ann Putnam‚ Thomas Putnam and Abigail‚ each representing the evils of jealousy‚ greed‚ and vengeance‚ respectively. Ann Putnam‚ an antagonist of Rebecca Nurse‚ is very jealous of Rebecca. Rebecca has “eleven children and [is] twenty-six times a grandma.” On the other hand‚ Ann Putnam has “laid seven babies un-baptized in the earth‚” and now her one and only child Ruth “walks‚ and hears naught‚ sees naught‚ and cannot eat” because her “soul
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The Crucible Tone Paper In Arthur Miller’s book/play The Crucible‚ the tone he adopts towards the subject of witch trials and witch hunts‚ and towards the characters that maintain them‚ is carefully written. His ironic and cynical tones throughout the play poke fun at the religious officials doing what they thought was right‚ executing people they thought were witches. They also further the outlook on the lack of justice in a harsh‚ Puritan society. Miller continually uses irony in situations
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Scapegoating is used as the theme for the play by the display of sporadic events in which individuals accuse others and place blame on the accused for actions they did not take part in. For example‚ one of the earliest incidences of scapegoating within The Crucible occurs in Act I of the play when Abigail intentionally placed the blame of the witchcraft incident in its entirety on Tituba although numerous others were involved‚ including Abigail herself. Another incident in which scapegoating is apparent within
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Katherine Pajewski Ms. Little English Period 6 10/10/13 The Crucible and McCarthyism Paralleled In the play The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller creates a tragic story of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 which parallel McCarthyism during the 1950s. Miller published this play in 1953‚ after feeling the effects of McCarthyism during the 1950s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Miller paralleled McCarthyism by writing about the events and ways of thinking that prompted the outbreaks‚ the immediate reactions
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English 11H 5A 13 May 2013 Crucible Paper The witch trials of 1692 in Salem‚ Massachusetts are evidently a part of the development of the United States of America. The crucible started from a collection of girls who showed strange behaviors that were mistaken as commands from the devil by the strict Puritan populace. False testimonies‚ jealousy and grudges used as ammunitions to fuel the hysteria. The trials successfully depicted how intolerance and hysteria can combine to tear even the strongest
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A crucible: A severe test or trial or a pot where metals are melted under a high heat. When things are under extreme stress or pressure they change into something else and react in different ways. People can change just like metals do in crucibles. They can change personalities do things that no one expected them to do. Reverend Parris‚ Reverend Hale‚ and John Proctor in The Crucible‚ changed under pressure and did things that were unexpected when they were were under great pressure. Reverend Parris’s
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Fear and Hysteria destroy Good Judgment because when a part of yourself feels fear or paranoia (Hysteria)‚ your judgement goes away and you do anything you can to do away with that uncomfortable feeling. In the Crucible‚ the three girls Abigail‚ Mary‚ and Susanna are filled with fear and hysteria of getting into trouble and being spanked so they turn to the most drastic judgment they have and start accusing people of witchcraft to prevent their own punishment and put that uneasy feeling of uncomfortability
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Instruction in The Crucible The world-famous and highly influential play‚ The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ was written in an effort to make the public aware of one of the most awful chapters in history‚ and the goal of the author was to use the characters and events as a vehicle to communicate the moral lessons that should be learned from these examples of flawed human behavior. Various themes and motifs that illustrate important morals are explored extensively throughout the play. The Crucible‚ by Arthur
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In the opening of the play how does Miller seek to create an atmosphere of hysteria and tension? Do you find the opening effective? The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller written in the 1950’s. It was set in the 1690’s in Massachusetts. The play is about the witch trials and how something like a group of girls in the woods could lead to about 200 people being hanged and accused of witchcraft. The people of Salem were new to Massachusetts as they were puritans who went off to America to set up
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