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    Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is truly a wonderful play. It describes a series of events in which a group of people are persecuted by their neighbors of practicing witchcraft. In order to cover their own behinds, they tell a grand lie. This leads to complete and utter tragedy of course. Throughout the course of the play, several themes that are applicable to the text historically and everyday life reveal themselves. I this short paper, I will discuss two of the most important of the eight themes

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    The Crucible By Arthur Miller The crucible was a playwright that was written by Arthur miller who was an American. The play is a story is partially fictionalized and dramatized. It took place during 1692/93 in Massachusetts Bay. He wrote this play after the government of the United States of America ostracized people who had turned into communist. He questioned the activities of Americans to the committee of House of Representatives and that led to his conviction in 1956. This was after he failed

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    Archetypal figures throughout literature play an integral role in the development of sympathy within the audience. The author of The Crucible demonstrates a comprehensive grasp of literary devices throughout the play, strengthening the use of characterisation, setting and imagery to construct characters that insight sympathy. When viewed through an archetypal perspective, Miller’s text constructs a dynamic archetypal representation of John Proctor throughout the text. The development of John Proctor’s

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    Set in Salem Massachusetts, The Crucible written by Arthur Miller in 1952 is a very well known play. Written during the time of McCarthyism, it is evident how Arthur Miller uses the power of accusation when writing this book. The people in Salem Village believe in witches and devils, and if a person is convicted of being a witch or conjuring with spirits, then they are hanged. If a person confesses then that would mean they could live longer, however they could not go to heaven anymore only hell

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    Miller Rhetorical Analysis Arthur Miller is the author of “Are You Now Or Were You Ever” is evaluating his journey on what helped him, write his astonishing book “The Crucible”. What inspired him to write THe Crucible was not events that was occurring in America's government. Miller uses rhetorical strategies such as appeals of ethos and pathos . Miller focus in a witch hunt trial that revives the darkness of a person persona to get away from trouble and allows innocent people face conqueseus

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    Flight in The Crucible The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1952 to dramatize the witchcraft trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 (“The Crucible by Arthur Miller”). The community in Salem is portrayed as motivated by the agitation, greed, and retribution revealed by the witch trials. Arthur Miller uses flight many times in his play to stimulate thoughts in the reader’s mind. The play was turned into a film in 1996. The same uses of flight plus a few more are seen in the

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    “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller there is witchcraft within the city of Salem. Citizens are accusing each other of talking to the devil making them a sinner. Miller develops a theme of reputation in the play, to portray how people value reputation more than their life. He uses foil to reveal elements of Proctor’s character which is being called a sinner to prevent his wife Elizabeth from being killed. In the play, Proctor is the protagonist while Abigail is the antagonist which causes a

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    Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale in The Crucible 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. Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale have a similar motivation, the people of Salem

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    The Crucible is a famous play written by Arthur Miller, an American playwright who has written several well-known plays of the 20th century. In The Crucible, Miller uses lies & deceit to teach individuals a lesson on how important it is to tell the truth and how much lies affect our lives. Because lies always catch up to you, the characters in The Crucible are faced with the challenge of tracing back on who is lying and who is really telling the truth. To start off, Abigail gets all the girls to

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    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a masterfully crafted allegory connecting the Salem witchcraft trials with the terror of the Second Red Scare. Even after the first wave of communism-induced hysteria, Americans were not immune to this large scale of fear prompted by the Cold War. The House Un-American Activities Committee only fanned the flames with its accusations, and the notorious Senator Joseph McCarthy soon followed suit with his “witch hunt.” Miller carefully connects the fear and hysteria of

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