The Crucible Play Analysis

To belong is something deep comples and one can look at the notion of belonging in many ways and my texts have gained me vast insights into the concepts of belonging such as self belonging, belonging to community and the power of belongin to somehting “The crucible” a play written by Arthur miller, “The Bra Boy’s” a film biography about the lives of the bra boys surf tribe directed and written by Sunny Abberton and the song “Found” written and performed by the band “Horrorshow” Through the use of lyrics, quotes, themes a dramatic techniques have each allowed me to gain further insight’s into concepts of belonging.

The play “The Crucible” dramatizes the destruction of a community by mass hysteria caused by members of the community accusing one another of practicing witch craft and devil worship. The play is based on events which took place in the puritan town of Salem Massachusetts in 1692, when a group of young girls were caught dancing naked in the forest by reveren paris the girls banded together and in their own defense used already apparent fears of witchcraft and the devil within the community as a mechanism to cause mass hysteria within the town leading to numerous town court proceedings causing villagers to accuse
In the crucible they theme of survival is expressed through the need of belonging to community to survive this is the same in the bra boy’s town of maroubrah they grew up among poverty and violence and formed a strong belonging nature to survive”We Knew at that stage by sticking together it would be the only way that we could get through it” this is the same as the crucible because the ones who stongly belonged to the community where the ones that survived which gave me an insight into the power that comes with