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    Conflict In The Crucible

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    reading “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller, many themes are present throughout the play. For example the theme, the truth will set you free and lies have no end and they only keep growing, is present all throughout the drama. This major theme affects many character’s lives and decisions, that eventually end to a tragic end. The people of Salem later realize who they can and can’t trust. For example, the first conflict that shows that the truth will set you free, is the conflict with Reverend

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    The Crucible Conflicts

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    The Crucible Conflicts In his play The Crucible, published in 1953, writer Arthur Miller used the time period of the Puritans to convey his warning about the McCarthy era. Through his dramatization of various conflicts within the Salem community, Miller opened the Twentieth Century eyes to the witch hunt conducted by Senator Joe McCarthy. Using the motifs of power struggles, accusations, and confessions depicted the conflicts between Abigail and Mary Warren, John Proctor and himself, Reverend Hale

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    The Crucible Conflicts

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    The Crucible There are many conflicts between Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Parris, and the Putnams. Not all of the conflicts around Tituba and the girls in the woods. Goody Putnam doesn’t like Rebecca Nurse because all of her children and Reverend Parris is more worried about himself then his own children. Some of the characters in the Crucible aren’t focused on the real problems and just focused on the surface, not deep down where there are events unfolding which would take the blame elsewhere, Goody

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    There are multiple types of conflict in The Crucible that forwards the plot, these types of conflict are in the play and most characters have some type of conflict with another person, the town, or themselves. The Crucible is a play that is absolutely filled to the brim with conflict and is set in the time period of the Salem Witch Trials that lasted from February 1692 up until May 1693. In the play, many people were deceived, accusations were thrown around town, and people were hung or burned at

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    The Crucible by Arthur Miller Plot : In “The Crucible” Arthur Miller made the plot develops through the conflicts by using high tension and climaxes. He ends each of the four acts with a climax. In addition, he allowed the protagonist to develop throughout the acts. “The Crucible” has many internal and external conflicts. The major external conflict is John Proctor trying to save his wife from being hanged by the town officials for supposedly being a witch. The major internal conflict is John trying

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    The Crucible In the story “The Crucible” by Author Miller conflicts are a major part of the plot and them. There are many themes that tie in with all the different conflicts, but out of all of them I have decided to write about the conflict of Jealousy. The citizens in Salem are motivated by jealousy; Abby begins to lie to get to John Proctor and tries to get his wife imprisoned. The first sign of jealousy between these three that Miller shows is the conversation between John and Abby. In this quote

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    The political conflicts and campaigns have greatly affected the American Drama; a specified study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. __________________________________________________________________________ Muhammad Ayaz dr_ayazlali@hotmail.com Mustansar Abbas mustansarabbas334@gmail.com Muhammad Mansha M.MANSHA57@gmail.com Misbah Aslam misbahabozar@gmail.com Department of English Literature, the University of Lahore, Sargodha Campus, Punjab Pakistan Abstract: This article presents the impacts

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    The play, “The Crucible” is written by Arthur Miller in 1953. During this time of American history, a war had just ended and there was a deeply rooted fear of communists infiltrating American soil; Americans had begun to turn on each other out of fear that people around them were against American ideals. Arthur Miller expressed his concern for the time by writing “The Crucible,” which is written about a witch hunt that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Arthur Miller used the themes of an

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    Conflict can raise awareness to certain situations so that those conflicts are avoided from happening again. Conflict can bring out the best in people but it can also bring out the worst. Conflict is usually between two or more individuals and usually has either a positive or negative effect, sometimes both. Conflict can come from various different situations and have diverse effects depending on the circumstance and situation. I will be writing an expository piece in relation to the play The Crucible

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    The conflict in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is primarily fuelled by spite, and is successful in revealing previously hidden character traits. Abigail is the main instigator of the conflict in Salem, and is motivated by her sense of longing for John Proctor and hatred towards the society. Conflict that begins between her and Proctor eventually stems into further issues involving Abigail, Elizabeth, and the town of Salem as a whole. Each of the conflictions affect characters in different ways, such

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