The Crucible Act 4 Seasons Essay

The seasons are part of the mother's life, while the father goes through life as if all were winter. The mother runs her house according to the seasons. She grows "miraculous gardens and magnificent flowers…"(132), and during berry picking season, "She would walk miles…"(132).  Growing gardens, flowers and picking berries are seasonal activities. Every flower and fruit has its cycle during the year, which alludes how the mother lived through this. The importance of the seasons as part of the mother's life is presented even in the end of the story when the narrator says that the "[mother] looks through her lonely window onto the ice of winter…"(140). Therefore, she is alone gazing out the window, waiting for her death, which is symbolized by the winter. On the other hand, for the father all the seasons are the same. All of them are winter. The narrator describes his father, "with blue eyes flossing like clearest ice

The change in seasons symbolize the cycle of life. At the beginning of the the story, it is a midsummer day. The summer symbolizes Ned’s youth and energy. After the storm, Neddy notices that all the leaves have changed colors and fell off as a result of the storm. “He went toward their pool with feelings of charity, indifference, and some unease, since it seemed to be getting dark and these were the longest days of the year” (Cheever). Even though the weather and environment around him is changing, Ned is unaware that it is becoming fall. Fall represents that the character is aging and that his unawareness shows his decline in

Despite being a 4-act play, The Crucible written by Arthur Miller although a four act play can be put into the traditional 5 act tragedy. Set in Salem Massachusetts in the spring of 1692, The Crucible shows the gripping and suspenseful tales of the Salem witch trials in comparison to the 1950’s McCarthyism. Though with the basic exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of the traditional five act play, this play is broken down into four major acts explaining the rippling effects of the girl’s accusations and the events following.

The play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, withholds many conflicts that arise resulting in many themes as well. Such as weight, Reputation, and Good vs. Evil. These themes form from the Salem witch trials. Repeatedly people become accused of witchcraft, throughout the play this continues to drag out due to the people of Salem’s accusations and deceit for one another. The play continues to move to a tense and moving climax resulting in the death of many prominent people of Salem.

The significance of the change in seasons extends far beyond the physical changes that are seen throughout the year in spring, summer, fall, and winter. The setting for the opening scene brings the notion of seasonal change; the place is called Weatherend and here the only two characters in the story, Marcher and May, cross path for the first time in years. The name of the place itself seems to suggest that when both characters meet, time literally stops.

Miller’s metaphor compares the actual crucible to the town of Salem, the continents of the crucible to the people who face false accusations of witchcraft, and the heat used fo to purify the continents of a crucible to the character’s actions and emotions that fuel the trials and like events that take place in the play.

In his stories, everything that seemed bad or evil at the time, lead to something good. His path through the dark woods nearly killed him, yet brought him to Spector, a town of great influence. This represents winter turning into spring. Similarly, his time at the circus did the same. It seemed as though he would never learn Sandra’s name, only small insignificant facts. However, the small facts he did learnt eventually helped him win her over in the end. These changes were what allowed Edward to be so successful in all his endeavours. His life as a whole also went through all the seasons. His happy childhood represented spring. His adulthood became summer, as all his accomplishments were realised. Autumn started after his fight with William, and finally winter came with his death. The change in season through his life gave Edward a full life. These shifts shaped who he was, and consequently affect those around him. The seasons represented, for Edward, hope. They assured him that light would eventually

I went to go see the The Edythe Bates Old: Moores Opera Center’s Production of “The Crucible” at the Moores Opera House. The show was based on the play by Arthur Miller. I had no prior experience to Operas before this one. I didn’t really know what to expect except for it to be similar to a play where the actors sing their lines. “The Crucible” was projected on a screen on the stage when I first walked into the Opera House, along with music from the orchestra being played in the background.

As  the  story  progresses,  the  author  continues  to  use  the  seasons  to  highlight  Dexter's  actions.  Fall  is  linked  to  Dexter's  actions.  Fall  is  linked  to  Dexter's  emotional  outburst;  "Fall  made  him  clench  his  hands  and tremble  and repeat  idiotic  sentences  to  himself,  and  made  brisk  abrupt  gestures  of  command  to  imaginary  audiences  and  armies"  (Fitzgerald  1922),  and  when  Dexter  finally  realizes  he  has  wasted  his  time  over  the  years,  all  four  seasons  are  referenced;  "Summer,  Fall,  Winter,  Spring,  another  Summer,  another  Fall;  so much  he  has  given  of  his  active  life  to  the  incorrigible  lips  of  Judy  Jones  (Fitzgerald  1922).  In  the  final  analysis,  the  changing  of  the  seasons  is  essential  to  the  plot  because  they  symbolize  the  passing  of  time  and  shattered

The Crucible performed by the Williams College theatre team was an excellent production. One of the most of important parts of the play, acting, was executed extremely well. The acting was executed well enough to allow the play to seem believable. In the opening scene of the play, Betty’s father seemed very distraught, because he did not know what to think of his daughter’s situation. The actor provided a nice representation of the character in the book.

Aristotle believed that every piece of poetry or drama must have a beginning, middle, and end which is known as the three-act structure. The five-act structure expands on the three-act structure which Shakespeare followed for his dramatic plays. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a four act play which follows the five- act structure. The Crucible is about a witch hunt that took place in Salem, Massachusetts that is parallel to McCarthyism during the Red Scare. The Crucible compares old witch hunts to the hunts for communists in the government. Senator McCarthy had feared that communists had infiltrated America so he accused innocent people of communism just like Abigail Williams had accused the people that she disfavored of being witches. Arthur Miller was accused of being a communist because he spoke freely of himself, so he wrote The Crucible to show how absurd McCarthyism the Salem Witch trials were.

To start off, the poems The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and Seasons Changing by Annijah Collins, McKenna Faychak, and Emily Mottley both have two different meanings. For example, in “The Road Not Taken” it states, “ Two roads diverged in a wood and I- I took the one less traveled by (Frost 18-19). The text shows that out of the two roads he chose the alternative path since no one usually picks the one he did, even though he was capable of picking the ordinary one. In addition, it states, “ Autumn, winter, and the rain begins a seasonal chain” (Collins, Mottley and Faychak 23-24). This shows that the main point of the poem was the seasons constantly changing. The poem “The Road Not Taken” meaning is about how a man is deciding between two paths that would commence the rest of his journey through life, and “Seasons Changing” is about how the seasons constantly change.

But for someone who wants to look into the cracks and ask themselves why she is writing about this. Maybe she’s just worried about autumn coming and she wants the chaos of summer to sweep through the world in its crazy violent way. Or maybe Helen Hunt Jackson is using seasons to convey some sort of personal message. She uses personification to describe summer. “Escape from satin burs; her fringes done,” by doing this the author may be thinking that season is like the person the seasons may really be showcasing.

The poem is talking about the end of fall and winter but the beginning of spring and summer. The period of time is only one day and there are gaps from the early morning to night time.

Morrison has divided her portrayal of a fictional town of blacks, which suffers from alienation and subjugation, into four seasons.  I believe that her underlying message is to illustrate the reality of life's travails: the certain rhythms of blessings and tragedies.  Some blacks understand and acccept this philosophy and Morrison's use of the seasons portrays and echoes the bible verse, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"(Ec. 3.1).  Perhaps this is a fatalistic approach or as Darrow says,