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    The Crucible is a dramatic work by American playwright Arthur Miller. The present investigation endeavors to inspect the family relations and Thematic in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible (1953) by elucidating how their utilization of dialect in speaking with each different mirrors the nature and the improvement of their strained relationship. The Crucible concentrates on how man can manage a wild authority which demands that he perform corrupt acts with a specific end goal to keep up a hypocritical

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    Allegory In The Crucible

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    ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller can be seen as a tragedy. According to the dictionary a tragedy is: ‘’A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.’’ 1 This is also true for The Crucible. The main character, the protagonist, John Proctor’s fate is tragic. He is a good and honest man, who has got one secret, a fatal flaw. His flaw

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    The Crucible Comparison

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    simple, romantic confession to those who have never seen or read the Crucible. However those who have been exposed to The Crucible will know that those words are laced with jealousy. How one may view the crucible is decided by their good judgement, however how they view it might make-or-break their experience of “getting to know” the characters. Thesis Although many would argue that the written version of Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, in viewing the many versions, the movie does the most accurate

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    Realism In The Crucible

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    17-year-old Abigail Williams and 30-year-old John Proctor. Upstairs, the shadow of Elizabeth, John’s wife, flickers in the window. Though these people are real, this affair, which becomes the basis of Arthur Miller’s historical play The Crucible, is purely imaginary. In The Crucible, Miller explores the story of the 1692 Salem Witch trials. Protagonist John Proctor, a well-respected Salem farmer, struggles between his morals and his guilt about his secret affair when a jealous Abigail accuses Elizabeth in

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    The Crucible Analysis

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    serve men. The background of The Crucible was set up in the Witchcraft Trails of 1692, Salem, Massachusetts where females are treated as a kind of weak creatures who are supposed to obey to male, and the only approach to power is by their last name. I believe that the antagonist Abigail wanted to marry John Proctor, not because she loved him, but because of what his last name represents. This essay will analyze Arthur Miller's treatment of women in The Crucible through Marry Warren, Elizabeth Proctor

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    Fallacy In The Crucible

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    Arthur Miller, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Crucible, uses words to feel and convey the feelings created by characters and events in his novels. Witchcraft was the fulfilling lies of the courtroom authority, and separated the Puritan society. He enhances his message of overwhelming authority with such a plethora of literary devices such as hyperbole, irony, and fallacy to explain and demonstrate the abusing of power throughout The Crucible. In Act I, page 175, it is said, “Let either of you

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    During the 1900’s, the Salem Witch Trials were taking place. This brought a lot of controversy and to this day affects the way people interact. Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible, wrote his book during this time period to give a better understanding of how people reacted to witches and also to inform readers on the events that took place and hope the same mistakes aren't repeated. Superstitions, fear, lies,first impressions and the saving of ourselves from trouble play a major part not only

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    does Arthur Miller use the crucible to represent personal experiences or voices? Arthur Miller used “The Crucible” to his advantage in the 1950’s, voicing his personal experiences of belief and religion through the characters of Danforth and Rebecca Nurse. He represented his experiences of proving ones honor and name through John Proctor and he characterized his experiences of hysteria and extremism through the girls and Abigail. Miller is using his play, “The Crucible”, to illustrate significant

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    The conflict created when the will of an individual opposes the will of the majority is the recurring theme in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. John Proctor is an example of an opposition to his society because he doesn’t go to church as much as he is expected to, he cheated on his wife with Abigail Williams, and he tries to speak out against the court and church to get them to believe what is true. John Proctor didn’t show up to church as much as he should have in the past because of varying

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    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was written during the McCarthy Era. Miller's reason behind the book was to show how we repeated history. We repeated history in a sense of witch hunts. In this case, he used the book as an extended metaphor to link McCarthyism at the time to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. This extended metaphor has various similarities to McCarthyism, the hearings, and how these two hunts came to be. Abigail Williams was Joseph McCarthy in the play and she came to power much like

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