Analysis Of Arthur Miller 's ' The Crucible '

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an interpretation of the Salem witch trials of 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts in which religion, justice, individuality and dignity play a vital role. These factors define the characteristics of many of the most significant characters in the play. Some of them being John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale, Danforth and many others. The Salem witch trials were a result of the lack of expression of individuality and the fact that no individual could expect justice from the majority culture as a result of the deterioration of human dignity in the Puritan society of Salem.

How many people have you met in your life that is stronger because of a difficult experience they went through? Most people are because we take these difficult experiences and grow from them and become better people. This is the exact case is expressed in the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The story begins in Salem, Massachusetts 1692 right in the middle of a period of witchcraft hysteria. During this time many people were accused of being witches and wrongly convicted by judges Danforth and Hathorne. The characters in the story are struggling because of a girl named Abigail who gets caught practicing witchcraft and then starts naming and accusing others so that she doesn’t get in trouble; one of these people being a well-respected farmer, John Proctor’s, wife Elizabeth. The title, The Crucible, refers to a test, trial, ordeal, formation by fire, and vessel baked to resist heat, and the entire story is an allegory meaning it has a hidden meaning. John Proctor symbolizes a crucible by embodying the definition of one, as he went through a test and was formed by fire.

Crucible, a noun defined as; a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures, in the traditional sense but, it also means a severe, searching test or trial. The latter of the two definitions is exactly what Arthur Miller had in mind when he wrote the play, The Crucible. The play set in Salem Massachusetts during the start of the infamous Salem Witch Trials, is about the struggle to discover truth within the twisted and brutal lies flying about the little town, started mainly by a young girl by the name of Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams, as we quickly come to know, is the past mistress of the prominent Mr. John Proctor, a local farmer. As the tension rises in the

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller employs many rhetorical and poetic elements to depict the changing nature of relationships between the play’s characters. One of the most rhetorically dynamic relationships portrayed in the play is the marriage between the protagonist John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth. Miller skillfully uses Elizabeth and John’s language and the overall tone of their marriage to manifest John’s complex character development throughout the play. The marriage evolves from a relationship of hostility and tension to sacrifice and selflessness as John becomes a man of integrity. While John is overall more of a dynamic character than his wife, Elizabeth does not remain static for the entirety of the play; she demonstrates a slight character change in the final act that is, in a sense, opposite from her husband’s. The changes in the language of Elizabeth and John throughout the play result from the gradual breakdown and final anagnorisis of John’s character as he learns the value of the truth and becomes willing to shed his formerly coveted dignity for Elizabeth’s honor. This evolution of communication and character between the Proctors allows for mutual forgiveness and the final reconciliation of their marriage before John dies as a martyr.

 The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. The entire community is in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts. Miller uses three characters that manifest this internal battle ever so clearly: Mary Warren whose whole world turns upside down, John Proctor who must weigh the importance of his family against his reputation and Reverend Hale who must decide whether to do his job, or do what he knows to be right. 

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From deciding whether or not to eat the last pudding, to stopping at a stop sign when no policemen are around, people face moral choices every day. However, sometimes a challenging decision finds its way to the forefront of someone’s life. A decision that does not only affect that person then and there but lingers and affects other people as well. Lawyers defend people they know are guilty, witnesses of crimes may not speak out in fear of their lives, and politicians lie about their opinions in order to save their public image until they get into power. A historical example a major moral test took place in Salem, 1692. When accusations of witchcraft were thrown left and right, innocent citizens were faced with the decision of saving their lives while potentially damning their souls, or saving their souls in exchange for their worldly lives. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible highlights the difficult test of maintaining moral integrity during these times, primarily through the characters of Proctor, Elizabeth, and Mary Warren-- some pass their crucibles while others fail.

Lying leads to terrible tragedies. Lying for so long will make it unpleasant to move on and the more difficult it will become. Just like how The Crucible ends. The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials. The story is centralized around John Proctor, a white, landowning Puritan who betrayed his wife, Elizabeth by having sex with Abigail Williams. Back in the day, everything was black and white, meaning if something isn’t about God then it must’ve been about the Devil, they were religious people and they would not accept the fact that he had sex with someone else outside of marriage. He denied that nothing ever happened between him and Abigail. While Proctor is not taking responsibility for his actions, he causes a big commotion: people getting arrested and hanged, Abigail and a group of other girls are being accused of being part of Witchcraft. In the fourth act, Proctor is stuck in a situation where he either says the truth about who is part of witchcraft or he gets hanged. Proctor does not confess because he does not want people to use his name in vain and he knows that if he confesses it will leave a bad example for his sons, he decided to die an honest man than to live a fraud. At the end, Proctor ripped the confession knowing that he will be hung. Throughout the play, Arthur Miller creates two themes: the past will always haunt you and as people run away from their problems, their problems will continue to follow

“The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and the abuse of power” (Ted Nugent). Ted Nugent argues that the government is not serving the purpose it was intended to because of the many flaws that are integrated into it. The main two deficiencies that he focuses on are corruption and the abuse of power. These two pieces of evidence tie together in the fact that corruption is usually where the abuse of power sprouts from. This same corruption and abuse of power from Ted Nugent’s world was also very alive in that of The Crucible. The corruption lies in the flawed theocratic based government that Salem uses, and Abigail becomes the first of many to exploit it. In The Crucible, previously insignificant individuals obtain an inordinate amount of power because of Salem’s senseless fear of the devil, flawed theocracy, and corrupt punishment system, which supports Arthur Miller’s belief in the negative influence of the powerful.

What is your motivation? Wealth? Power? Good reputation? How about the truth? In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, all of these desires are common. Two Puritan ministers, Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale, have one similar motivation, the people of Salem, but they also have very different motivations, like reputation and truth, which are exposed as the play unfolds.

In every literary work, there are themes. A theme is a broad idea, moral or message of a book or story. One individual may construe the themes of a book or story differently than another, but that is the pure beauty of themes. One great literary work is The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller. Succinctly, the play is about the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts in 1692. Throughout the story, the townspeople indict their neighbors of being a witch and practicing witchcraft. On the surface, this historical drama has a few universal and enduring themes. Themes are universal because regardless of where in the world, the ideas still relates to everyone and is understood. Themes are enduring because the ideas are found

They say when your close to death you see your life flash before your eyes and even when death is near by you must be coraguose and accept your fate. Proctor was accused of lechery and witch craft and sentenced to be hanged. Risking his reputation and his life by calling out the court for there inhuman and unfair trials. Rev. Parris is the antagonist of the book The Crucible. Parris is disliked by most people and is trying to get power in Salem. The actions you doing in life weither a good or bad deciesion is for you to decied if it will be worth it. After Parris discovers his daughter and necie with some of the village girls dance in the woods, soon enough the word spreads that there are witches in Salem village and the origan starts in Rev. Parris house. Telling the truth about a rumor will stop the fire that spreads.

Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible, was an intriguing man. He was reared in New York within a Jewish family. Isidore Miller, Arthur’s father, worked in the coat industry. Miller’s father was barely literate and, when Arthur was fourteen, lost everything they had in the Wall Street Crash. Arthur’s mother, Augusta Barnett Miller, adored him and was a high school graduate. Growing up Arthur Miller repudiated piano lessons and an education from a Hebrew school. Instead, an Irish Spinster taught him. As he got older, Arthur was married three times, with three children (two from the first marriage, and one from the third). According to an article written by Jeffrey Meyers, Miller had a powerful physical presence. Meyers describes Arthur as one with large capable hands, short muscular legs, and spectacles. Personality wise, Arthur Miller is known to be warm, friendly, paternal, non-competitive, and one who

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a very engaging and interesting play. It tells the story of the witch trials which occurred in Salem Massachusetts in 1692. The play shares the story of a community trying to fight off the witchcraft that is affecting their children. The play is full of lies, deceit, blame, and morality.