My Crucible Reflection

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a one of a kind, outstanding play that remains relevant from the 1950’s through today. The Crucible depicts life in the 1600s during the Salem witch trials. Arthur Miller crafts an intricately layered story with many points of view from a variety of characters. Although the story takes place in 1692 the lessons and values taught have importance in our society today. One of the lessons highlighted in The Crucible is how ignorance can affect communities and even have catastrophic results that may last many years or completely change the dynamic of an era.

Tena Desae once said, “The biggest challenge is not to be affected by praise because a lot of it is not from the heart. Being true to yourself about your strengths, and weaknesses, when everyone out there has a strong opinion and wants to give advice, is another challenge.” In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, many characters are affected by their own strengths and weaknesses. In this time period, many Salem townspeople were not opened to form new ideas and opinions, yet this caused several beliefs and effects on the town. The characters reveal different sides of themselves to protect or seek revenge on one another. For example, Mary Warren expresses many traits of strength and weakness that contribute to the trials throughout the

It was the day, the report card appeared into my mail box. I headed into the house slowly, my father walking in front of me. The marble stone floor was colder than usual and was gnawing on my foot. The sense of danger hung in the air, but I walked on. As my father summon me to come forward my foot, obediently, dragged themselves in front him. Knowing that I will be stroke with the slender bamboo stick, instead of fear rising, indifference was replaced by it. The first blow struck my buttock. As it gained speed, almost the entire of my body surface was struck, and then it ended. Black and blue covered my legs and arms as like it was paint. However, unlike paint, it can’t be washed. I hate report cards. Since then, my grades were above average, but until today, I still hate them. You can say that it was that day that changed my languid attitude to a busy worker. I can’t say that my attitude and behavior haven’t changed from since, but I can say that it is kind of solid.

“ I don’t want to hear one more word from you, now go back to class.” the principal stated sternly as she assured me out the door. I went back to class and finished the rest of the school day. When I arrived home my mom sent me to my room until my dad came home to talk with me and discuss my punishment. After my dad’s lecture

There was always a problem in my mind that my parents never came to support me. I always begged them to come see me, until one day my mom said to me “ you're pathetic and making a fool out of yourself”. Over those words i became very distant from everyone and changed me forever like don miguel described “ you were put in a spell over the word”. I became very shy and antisocial. I let any opinion get to me.

The Crucible book written by Arthur Miller based on a real life story that happened in 1692 to 1693 In Salem Massachusetts was based on lies and injustice, genre is play, The author's purpose is to inform the audience about what happened during the witch trials . The Salem Village was full Puritans and they was very strict based on church rules. People that missed church regularly will be justified as a witch or malignant and will be put to shame on a stockade. People that break the rules of the strict religious town will hang or live if such person decides to confess, If they confess the accused person will still be imprisoned and not killed. Also if you was accused of practicing witchcraft you will be accused by the people and go

I was told my Hebrew language skills were not up to par with the schools expectations and so I was forced to transfer to a “Yechud” (lower level) class for my Hebrew subjects. My English skills were up to par and remained in the mainstream class; however, my new class experience changed as compared to the enjoyable sixth grade school year. In sixth grade I was the popular girl, everyone loved me for my kindness and willingness to help others in need, but after transferring to the “Yechud” class my mainstream classmates looked down at me as if I obtained mental disability that changed who I was. At the start of the seventh grade school year, I went from the popular girl to the stupid girl. I was an embarrassment to my classmates nobody wanted to be seen with a “Yechud” girl. The “Yechud” class had a separate lunch table at the end of the huge lunchroom excluded from the rest of the school. Instead of allowing the blistering hot waters to dissolve my self-esteem I took the piping hot pain and casted it up to the heavens never once bringing it down. Horrid confrontations from my evil classmate cannot take control over my strong mind, I refused to believe their nasty words. Moving forward and trying to be the best possible student was my only option. It didn’t matter what people thought, the only thoughts that mattered was my own. Continuing my journey in the boiling waters of hell was the only way to create my fully cooked pasta and manifest a perfect dish. Callous and insolent students cannot define me, I am Michal Tempelberg whether I was in the “Yechud” class or not. Kindness, lovingness, and robust determination will always be my strong

In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller a girl named Abigail wrecks havoc on the town of Salem. After girls start having seizures from “dancing in the forest” Reverend Parris decides evil is among them in the form of witchcraft. Due to the fact that the girls confess to Parris’s slave being a witch and the fact that the girls won’t wake up Parris decides to call in for help. Little did the town suspect that they were about to be at the whim of 17 year old Abigail Williams. Miller was compelled to write this play to inform people of the horrific acts that took part in the Salem Witch Trials such as the people using personal vengeances for conviction, lying to save oneself, and dying for religious release.

The Crucible book written by Arthur Miller  based on a real life story that happened in 1692 to 1693 In Salem Massachusetts was based on lies and injustice, genre is play, The author's purpose is to inform the audience about what happened during the witch trials .  The Salem Village was full Puritans and they was very strict based on church rules. People that missed church regularly will be justified as a witch or malignant and will be put to shame on a stockade. People that break the rules of the strict religious town will hang or live if such person decides to confess, If they confess the accused person will still be imprisoned and not killed. Also if you was accused of practicing witchcraft you will be accused by the people and go

The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. In the crucible, one of the characters Elizabeth Proctor is a moral Christian woman who is true to her husband, John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor changes throughout the play from emotionless, to concerned, and finally to loving and thankful for what she has.

7th grade was the year I woke up. My mom called me into her bedroom late one afternoon and was still sitting on her bed, wearing her pajamas. The bright and cheerful sunshine that lit up the room gave a false ambiance of the tension that clouded the air. I already knew what she was going to say, but I did not want to believe it as the truth. I had noticed that my mom and dad's relationship with one another was growing apart just by the way they acted around each other. The conversations between them became shorter and their affection for one another began to fade. My dad spent his nights falling asleep watching TV on the couch, while my mom slowly disappeared back into her bedroom, alone. This had been happening for a while now, so I do not know why I was even surprised when my mom said to me that, “Your dad and I are getting a divorce”. I should have seen it coming. The clues were all in front of me, but I was too afraid to put them together. I was scared because, for the first time in my life, the image of my "perfect" family was crumbling before me. I knew inside that my family was falling apart, but I was desperately holding onto the fibers that I thought were keeping us together. It is hard to believe that one encounter can change the course of one's life forever. In this instance, I was awoken from the dream that I had been living in for so long.

I Heard footsteps coming while I was working at the dishwasher and it was my dad he said “ I talked to your teacher today and I agree with her to keep you in the A.P. Literature class” I then held my head in disappointment but realized that it was only right for my dad to keep me in there. Because I tried to leave her class but, my memorable experience is about the time my dad and my teacher Ms. Madera tried to stop me from giving up on myself. there hasn’t been a time where I Deondre Williams have given up on myself even when I was down to the last straw about to fail because failure haunts me as if it was a ghost haunting your soul. I really appreciate and love my dad and Ms. Madera because I knew that there is people here for me but I never

The Crucible is about the Salem Witch Trials. The play takes place in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1692, which we learned before the events in the play actually take place. The town minister, Reverend Parris, caught a group of girls, including his niece Abigail, dancing in the woods. The girls actually were trying to practice witchcraft, and Abigail drank chicken blood as part of a charm to kill a woman named Elizabeth Proctor, whom she had an affair with her husband named John and she wants Elizabeth dead. Sense the girls got caught dancing outside in the woods, Abigail is scared that they will be punished for these acts of witchcraft, so the girls start pinning the blame on others, so that it would drag attention away from them and so that it would help their case in not getting punished or in deep trouble. That is how the Salem Witch Trials started, so many people were accused of being Witches, and ended up being executed.

The Crucible takes place in Old New England during the time when Puritans were the dominant culture. The movie is based around incidents that sparked the Salem witch trials. In 1692 a woman by the name of Abigail Williams, the niece of the esteemed Reverend Parris, and a group of her friends where playing in the forest with an African American Slave named Tituba in Salem, Massachutes. They were caught with the slave and questioned. Unfortunately, when they were caught one of the girls, Betty, fainted; betty was the daughter of Reverend Parris. While people in the town are wondering what happened to Betty Abigail is pulled aside by a man named John Proctor. Abigail and John had an affair when Abigail worked for him as a servant. When Johns

I'm a victim, I thought. The books were closed. The papers were signed. It was official. The next school year, I would enter the fifth grade -- again.