Gerald Weales questions Miller’s reading of the records in The Crucible: Text and Criticism (New York: Penguin Books, 1978), pp. 164, 372.…
Everyone, at one point in his or her life, experiences greed. Not because of choice, rather, by human nature alone. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller portrays greed throughout many of the main characters. The main people, for example, include Thomas Putnam, Abigail, and Danforth. Each character shows greed in their own way. Throughout these characters, Arthur Miller try’s to show us that as a human, we cannot help to control the underlying greed within ourselves.…
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person…These seemingly fragile people are the strong people really (Williams: Twenty Years after Glass Menagerie).” Tennessee here captured the very essence of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The Crucible is all about the desperation, hysteria, and fear of Salem’s people. The main theme of The Crucible is fear.…
The play “The Crucible” was published in 1953 by Arthur Miller and takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during the Salem witch trials.…
In the play The Crucible, the author Arthur Miller talks about many Central ideas. The two that stuck out most were, first; false accusations,and false judgement just to obtain power, and second; would be standing firm in what you believe in even if it means death for witchery. For many of the people in the play were judged, and prosecuted for witchery even though they did not commit the crime.…
One of the major themes in The Crucible is lying and Deceit. Some of the characters in The Crucible are lying and other characters lie to themselves. For example, Proctor cheats on his wife and doesn’t tell her about it; Abigail lies that she is able to see spirits, and the judge and ministers lie to themselves. There are many parts in the story where Abigail lies; for example, she says that some people are witches and she also lied about what she really does in the woods. Although Abigail is one of the main characters that lie, there are others like Elizabeth where she tells the court that her husband wasn’t having an affair with Abigail.…
“In matters of malice, the devil suits his actions to man's beliefs about them,” stated by Reverend John Hale. The way people perceive evil during 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts has caused them to deal evil deeds themselves. John Hale’s remarks of the witchcraft hysteria about how men’s view on the witch trials has cause them to immorally deal with them, as depicted in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The Crucible is a play about a dispute over the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts of 1692 as one girl tries to destroy her love’s wife as she accuses everyone who tries to get in her way for witchcraft. Furthermore, Hale’s analysis about men’s perception of evil which causes them to do evil themselves is true as shown in The Crucible because of…
Have you ever wanted revenge on someone that has wronged you in the past? Sometimes we find deceitful ways to get revenge on these people. In The Crucible revenge is a common circumstance in the lives of the characters that contributed to the catastrophe.…
What is hysteria? By definition, hysteria is a state of intense agitation, anxiety, or excitement, especially as manifested by large groups or segments of society. In a broader sense however, hysteria is a killer, the delitescent devil. More specifically, hysteria was the main cause of nineteen deaths in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and countless ruined reputations on account of Joe McCarthy. Hysteria does not just appear out of nowhere though. There are driving forces such as revenge and abuse of power that bring about the irrational fear that can take over society. These are the issues expressed in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.…
Fear is a topic frequently addressed in plays novels. Fear may cause an individual to try to gain control over other people. Some use fear as an advantage over others.Throughout the play The Crucible, the author develops the theme that the fear of the unknown causes hysteria.This theme is seen throughout the novel and is used mainly by Abigail Williams who gains power during the Salem witch trials of 1692. She uses the fear factor to protect herself and to manipulate others.Other factors of Fear are shown when we see “Fear of the Devil” theme in the novel and how everyone fears that the devil takes control of theme and they fear that the devil is the cause of all this witchcraft.Throughout the play The Crucible, the author develops the theme…
All of these components and the unfortunate things they bred added up to one of the most hysterical events to be told through a play. The Crucible was the perfect melting pot to create mass hysteria and the awful things that come along with it. The play also showed us the people behind the panic that either helped to stop it or urged it on. It is also a warning to never let people manipulate others to create panic, state and religion be one to move that panic on to mass hysteria, or to let good, decent people die so that the mass hysteria can be…
Lying is a natural part of human nature that many people unfortunately succumb to on a regular basis. Whether it is to lay, The Crucible, something miller depicts several characters lying to protect themselves or to protect someone else, people will lie to do what they feel is right in order to protect their relationships and save others’ lives.…
Mass hysteria can exist when a number of people behave in an uncontrollable, unmanageable way because of fear and/or anger. Arthur Miller easily shows this in the play The Crucible which takes place in the late 1600’s in Salem, Massachusetts when more than one-hundred people were getting accused of being witches. United State Senator Joseph McCarthy had done something similar to this when he had accused many people of being “Reds” or communists during the Red Scare going throughout the United States.Human nature prompts mass hysteria \because people with good reputations start it and it’s more likely for people to believe them and also mass hysteria occurs when people want to get back at someone for something they want. Media might bring people…
The title of the play is called the Crucible By: Arthur Miller. This play is basically about how a couple of people is accused of witchcraft in a little town called Salem. People where very religious in this town and got rid of anything they though was connected to the devil. The most admirable character is Mary Warren she is very honest and innocent. Mary went to the trials, she made the doll that basically put Elizabeth in jail, When proctor made her lie she still came out and told the truth.…
In Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible”, Miller’s main focuses were the witch trials, behaviors and actions as a result of the hidden deeds believed to be done by the people of Salem. This book includes religious beliefs and revolves around witch trials to go into depth of the accusations and the lies for the outcomes. The play is wonderfully worded with much context for a reader to fully understand the idea and the concept. There were many themes in the play, those explained in the following paragraphs were the ones that really stood out throughout the reading. A theme that had an impact to about every situation in “The Crucible” and could easily be said as the main one was ‘Religion’.…