Symbols In The Crucible

“What is a crucible?” Why does the author choose to name this play The Crucible? However, two definitions of the word can apply to the play The Crucible, which could mean “a severe test” or could also mean a piece of laboratory equipment used to heat chemical compounds to very high temperatures or to melt metal. The symbolism is very clear here because the village of Salem was actually a very strict community, which kind of ties in with a crucible because the people were accused of witchcraft in the court and blasted with claims as being witches and also with the trials testing the ability of individuals to deal with immoral and unusual situations considering the true character came out at the end of the play as well. Throughout the play, Miller has characters that face these tests that makes them questions their loyalty and faith to God such as
The author of The Crucible, Arthur Miller, was actually involved in the Communist hunt of the mid 20th century which ties in with the reason of why he wrote this play and what he named the play. McCarthyism is a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. Miller saw the similarities between the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy era and decided that he needed one word to describe both of them when suddenly the word “crucible” came to his mind which was a perfect match. Many trials were held in the witch trials to seperate the good from the bad. This is similar to the McCarthy era because there was suspicion and the goal was to find the communists and seperate them from the rest of America before it is too late. The town of Salem became a crucible by having multiple things being stirred up all at one