Catherine Carbone, a Study of Her Personality and an Analysis of Her

Arthur J. Miller opened the eyes of the American people by using his stories to make a point about real world problems. “It is quite understandable that Miller should be regarded as a writer with a message, whether affirmative or negative, humane or socialistic. Arthur was trying to get the point across with his stories and plays, he was not a socialist or anything negative he is portrayed of being” (McCarthyism). Going against the odds, Arthur wrote about what he thought was important and he did not care what the consequences may have been, or whether other people liked it or not. Some of his most awakening works include; The Crucible and The Death of a Salesman. Although the theme of The Crucible was not directly

For this reason, American politics professor Michael J. Heale described how people began to become anxious and relied fiercely on traditions. Miller agreed with Heale when he elucidated that this anxiety was then directed toward foreigners, Jews, Catholics, homosexuality, and other controversial issues. A perfect example of this discrimination was that of Arthur Miller himself. The HUAC directly summoned Miller because his play, The Crucible, symbolized McCarthyism allegorically. The power of the anti-communist movement had no willing opponent due to the consequences of sedition.

As we wish to analyze the specific point Miller is making about hypocrisy, we need to recognize the relationship between the time and event of Miller’s life around the year of 1953, when he wrote the Crucible.

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953. He wrote this because of his personal experiences with the Communist Witch Trials. Miller was known for always sharing his opinion out to the community. During this time Senator Joseph McCarthy play a major role in trying to prevent communism from spreading. Miller was an easy target for McCarthy and was accused of being a Communist. This caused Miller to become one of many victims of the Communist witch trials and her served time in jail. The Communist witch trials was what influenced Miller to write his play about the Salem witch trials in the 1600’s.The Crucible mimicked issues that both societies had. The play also exposed Senator Joseph McCarthy for abusing his political power. The play is mainly

In A View From the Bridge (1955; Pulitzer Prize) Miller studies a Sicilian-American longshoreman whose unacknowledged lust for his niece destroys him and his family. All My Sons (1947), Incident at Vichy (1965), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Ride down Mount Morgan (1991), and Broken Glass (1994). His screenplay, The Misfits (1961); television dramas, Playing for Time (1980) and Clara (1991); His novel, Focus (1945); and a study of the Soviet Union, In Russia (1969), Arthur Miller’s last book written was his autobiography Time bends: A Life. (Kennedy Center)       Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play about the Salem witch trials in 1692. these were classic examples of mass hysteria, resulting in the hanging of a great many respectable men and woman of charges of dealing with the devil. They were convicted by people at least as respectable as themselves, largely on the evidence of many young girls lead by Abigail William’s, who had been caught dancing in the moonlight and laid their rakish behavior to the influence of Satan. Many innocent people were accused and convicted of witchcraft on the most absurd testimony, the testimony of Abigail and the other girls blaming whom they wanted to, so that they were not seen as witches. Descent citizens who signed petitions vouching to the good character of the accused friends and

The Crucible is a dramatic and fictional play that was written by American author Arthur Miller during the time period of McCarthyism in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Due to the fear of internal communist subversion that reached a nearly historical pitch; The U.S. Government investigated and also falsely accused many of its federal employees such as author Arthur Miller. Miller has written the Crucible as allegory of McCarthyism to declare his dissatisfaction of the government. He believed justice should still be existed in the court system even though it was influenced by trends such as anti-communism and religion.

The classical memorial work of Arthur Miller in The Crucible, tells the real based record

Arthur Miller was borne on the 17th of October 1915 in New York City. Miller believed that tragedy was not confined to the rich and important but that the ordinary man’s failure was just as moving and terrible. The play ‘The Crucible’ was first produced in 1953 in the middle of the McCarthy political witch hunt in America. Millar decided to write the play as an allegorical text and a parallel between the two events.

Arthur Miller himself went through “crucibles” in his life, which he in an essay called “Why I Wrote The Crucible.” During his life, Arthur Miller was in a culture of anti-communism and fear; all who the government suspected of having communist views were prosecuted. When this fear reached the media, filmmakers and actors were walking on eggshells in their attempts to appear as pro-American as possible.

He was convicted of contempt for not cooperating with the court and giving them names of communists, even if he was not one and would not know of any in the first place. His passport was taken away by the government, assumingly so that he would not go to the Soviet Union and leak information to their government. However, the only thing it prevented him from doing was going to Brussels to see the premier of his play. Miller’s involvement in McCarthyism led to his portrayal of the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible because he believed that the investigations happening in the United States were nothing more than a witch hunt. Many connections between the trials of the 1690s and those of the Cold-War Era can be made. The most notable one is the fact that in both cases, the chaos that ensued was a result of nothing more than the fear of the unwanted from those in society. In Salem, the unwanted were the witches, who were workers of Satan in their very religious Puritan society. In the United States, the problem was the communists, the products of an increasingly-popular governmental system overseas that “normal” Americans did not agree with, and were afraid it would take over. In the end, the point that Miller was trying to make with his The Crucible was that McCarthyism was really just as foolish as the Salem Witch Trials, and with the play he was trying to make people realize

Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17,1915. His parents were of Polish and Jewish descent. He received his college education from the University of Michigan. Miller was a famous playwright. Perhaps some of his more known works were “The Crucible”, which was based on the Salem Witch Trials which took place from 1692 to 1693. He also wrote “A View from the Bridge”, and “Death of a Salesman” which won a Pulitzer Prize. Miller was married to sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. Their marriage was referred to as the “Great American Brain” and the “Great American Body”.

Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17th. He was the son of Polish immigrants. Miller was refused by Michigan and Cornell University but he still kept writing plays and enjoying theatre. Miller has written 26 plays, a novel (Focus), several travel journals, a collection of short stories, and an autobiography. Although his fame was from his playwrights, Miller did have financial hardships.

Miller went on to write the play The Crucible. He paralleled the

Arthur Miller wrote the crucible during a time period in the U.S that’ shared some

“Arthur Miller [is known] as one of the leading playwrights of the 20th Century” (Arthur Miller). However his life wasn’t always that great. He was born in great poverty to a women’s clothing merchant that fell into a major economic disaster during The Great Depression. As he grew older he got more into literature and eventually wrote “one of the most famous political works of all time” (www.gradesaver.com/author/arthur-miller) known as The Crucible. However, with the creation of The Crucible came a cost only after 3 years it was published he was persecuted by everything he warned