“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
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which ‘The Crucible’ and Equus’ follow when religious faith turns into religious mania. How far does the two text attempt to present a more positive attitude to a life lived in faith? The plays ‘Equus’ and ‘The Crucible’ both explore the positive aspects of religion and its damaging qualities. The critic Mitchel Hay suggests that ‘The parental‚ adolescent and professional conflicts exhibited by Peter Shaffer’s Equus need not be disruptive. They can be fed into a crucible of growth.’ The plays reflect
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Irony in The Crucible Irony is a contrast between what is stated and what is meant‚ or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. The Crucible is a play by the American playwright Arthur Miller‚ and is filled with examples of irony throughout the play to build suspense and create anxiety. Arthur Miller used three kinds of irony‚ and they are dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal irony. The Crucible is filled with many examples for each kind of irony through the play. The dramatic
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his wife and how she is ruining her name. In the time of the puritans‚ adultery was a crime and was punishable by public humiliation‚ whipping‚ and possibly death. From the way Abby reacts you can tell she is going to create conflict further into the play. Quote 2: “We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone‚” Act 1‚ page 38 Context: Mr. and Mrs. Putnam’s daughter‚ Betty is sick and they don’t know why. They explain to Hale that
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heard a fight upstairs‚ and the boy shouting “I’m going to kill you!” and a body hit the ground and then saw the boy running downstairs. The boy claimed he had been at the movies while his father was murdered‚ but couldn’t remember the name of the movie or who was in them. A women living across the street testified that she saw the boy kill his father through the windows of a passing elevated train. The boy had an argument with father that night‚ which resulted the boy’s father hitting him twice.
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The Crucible “Crucible”: A place or occasion of severe test or trial. This definition adequately describes what this story is about because it is based on a crucible that dealt with witchcraft‚ deceit‚ and revenge. In literature‚ there are 2 main types of characters‚ dynamic and static characters or ones who change and ones who stay the same. In “The Crucible” the biggest dynamic character is John Proctor. Another dynamic character was Reverend Hale. To me‚ Abigail Williams was a static character;
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Abigail lies throughout the entire play. She has Tituba cast a spell to kill Elizabeth but in order to avoid detection of this she lies saying she saw all these people with the devil; "I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!" She also states before these lies "I want to open myself!" The word ’open’ means ’entirely honest; Ironically‚ nothing thatshe says is actually truthful. She lies in court by pretending she see’s things that aren’t actually there in hope to get others
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The Arise of Witchcraft in The Crucible In Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ the story is set in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the time that the Salem Witch Trials were beginning. The society was paranoid because the concept of witchcraft scared them and‚ even more than scared them‚ enraged them. Due to how paranoid the people were‚ the leaders began implementing new rules/laws that would prevent witchcraft from happening. In the play‚ by the end of Act 1‚ the girls dancing in the woods (and dabbling
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In Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ not much was received‚ except for the revenge of a heart broken girl. I didn’t find this play intriguing like most plays I have read before. If you want to watch a girl throw a tantrum over a guy and get rid of her rivals‚ then I recommend watching Mean Girls or befriend a high school queen bee‚ instead of reading The Crucible. Not much is offered to you other than blame and the act of revenge‚ which was lacked as well. In fact‚ the witch hysteria played a minor
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with little evidence‚ and it was in itself a witch hunt like those described in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was inspired directly by McCarthyism when he was writing The Crucible. The many claims of witchcraft made by characters in The Crucible--lacking sufficient evidence--share great similarities with the “witch hunts” of the McCarthy Era. The first great example of McCarthyism in The Crucible appears in Act One when Reverend Parris first becomes a major character in the tragedy
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