The Crucible Reflection Essay

The Crucible was a very emotional book in terms of plot. The plot was about a girl named Abigail who accuses many people of witchcraft. She also accuses Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor. Abigail uses her power of the court to get to her obsession, John Proctor, by trying to eliminate Elizabeth. She is unsuccessful in getting this done and ends up executing over twelve people including John Proctor. It is great to see all the different kinds of characterization and themes. This story really gets you thinking about many things, such as, lying and telling the truth, or most importantly, standing up for your beliefs even if you have to die for them. It also shows how envy, greed, hate, and jealousy can impact

The Crucible presents itself as one of the most controversial books of all time, seeing as its written by a man who got not just accused of communism, but asked by the FBI to change one of his screenplays because he got wrapped up the ‘witch hunt’ of his time. This books written not only to convey the messages and important lesson from the Salem Trials, but to also draw parallels to the modern events in the lives of the audience. Arthur Miller came up with the richly significant name of his book by sampling bits from linguistic, scientific, and biblical definitions of the word “crucible.”

Hello to you, Venkatesh Rao. I have read your work and I give props to you. As to who I am, well I am only a girl who has read your blog and felt the need to respond back to you about what I think. Your blog, ribbonfarm, is thought provoking and attention-grabbing, although from the people who have read it and that I know of, they will disagree with me. The reason why they disagree with your points is because they think you are a bit pompous, and I get what they mean. You speak about others quite bluntly in your blogs. In the article or blog post called “The Crucible Effect and the Scarcity of Collective Attention,” you prefer to the uneducated as petty men. A bit harsh if you ask me, but then again who am I to answer or to even be asked in

At the beginning of the year, I was uncomfortable. I felt like I would not be able to learn as much because of the different environment I was faced with. Little did I know it would be the complete opposite; I would end up learning more than I ever had before in a traditional English class. I was a little uneasy about the classroom setup, rolly chairs usually formed in a circle, and typically a student led class. As the year progressed, I realized that the mobility of the chairs and the opportunity to openly participate in class discussions led to me becoming more comfortable in the classroom and also led to me learning more about how to become a better reader, writer, and thinker. I accepted the challenge of learning in a unique environment.

After reading the Crucible I have come to realize just how wrongfully influential people are throughout history. I think it is safe to say that now more than ever many political candidates are seen as “fake’ people. At many times they seem to simply lie to receive more votes and followers. That is why I have chosen to write about relating situations in the crucible to a similar situation happening today. I will describe how political leaders relate to people by changing their stance on things even if they aren't going to keep the promise and how they attempt to attack certain people or places that citizens don’t like.

The play, ‘The Crucible”, takes place in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. It takes place during a period where there was a number of witchery rumors which led to a witch trial. During these trials, the only thing that kept some people alive and out of accusation was their reputation and religious background which shows the amount of intolerance the town of Salem has.

My crucible happened when I was in the 7th grade. I was a lazy guy when I started the school year. I started out great with grades but I later on dropped the scale of having good grades. In class, I would go into many reveries and have no idea what is going on. Around the end of the 1st marking period, i’d get an F for at least one of my classes in my report card. During the 2nd marking period, I tend to stop doing more homework and failed some of my tests. By the end of the 2nd marking period, I did a little bit worse and failed two of my classes. The 3rd marking period started and I was already acting worse in class. I was flunking all the tests and barely doing homework. I wasn’t realizing how bad I was doing until the 3rd marking

In “The Crucible”, Abigail Williams (Reverend Paris's niece) lied about how the conjuring was all Ti tuba ( Reverend Paris's slave from Barbados). She only said that they were dancing in the woods. When really they were singing, dancing, drinking blood, making a potion, and running around naked all while around a fire. If Abigail and the girls get caught they will either be beaten or hanged. Abigail after the adults left even threatened Mercy Lewis, Betty Paris, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth Proctor that if they tell she would kill them.

Before writing my poem I researched a bit into what the conditions of the Salem prisons were like at the time. I was affronted with tales of filth, disease, darkness, making up an unimaginable environment for those imprisoned on likely false accusations. I found inspiration in the idea of families being broken up and trying to imaging the mindset of a person having everything taken from them and leaving them with nothing but anguish, helped me successfully create the tone I was going for. When writing my poem I tried to keep in mind the themes in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and the terror characters felt when a seemingly close friend suddenly throws horrendous allegations at them and drags their name through the mud.

I found the three clips interesting because it showed all the vast amount of aspects going on to bring a professional production to life. The first video explained some of the processes that take place before a show becomes a complete and perfected production. The video showed how the producers created costume designs and brought them to life and discussions on how the production should be shown to the audience. In the second video it taught me that every show gets a different response from the audience and actors. Some scene solicit different responses from individuals and ideas on what is happening. The two actors collaborated together to elaborate on what they thought "The Crucible" related to in modern times. The most interesting video

My crucible that brought me down to my breaking point was when I was around the age of fourteen , I remember the event like this happened yesterday.I was playing for a football team and like every team we were at practice and we started to mess around and throw the ball like we were playing a game. Our coach always told us that no matter what we should always wear some type of gear whether that would be a helmet, upper body gear, or a mouthpiece to protect our mouth because we never know what could happen. Some of us had decided to not wear the gear while some did. I had decided to not wear anything because the weather was extremely hot and humid out that I thought I would sweat twice as much. So we had begun and as usual we got into our positions and I was the wide receiver so I was at the end. We blew the whistle and we all started to run to our place. Our quarterback was yelling at us where to go and he told me to go far because he was going to throw the ball at me to catch, so I did what I was supposed to and I ran as fast as I could. Our quarterback threw the ball and we all ran to go catch the ball.None of us were looking where we were running because we were all focused on where the ball was going. As the ball got closer to us we all ended up in a huge huddle where we were all pretty much on top of each other. The ball was so close to us that we all jump for the catch. One of our other teammates catches the ball and we were all falling back down and I landed on my

We all have darkness inside that we try to keep hidden, but sometimes there's nothing we can do to stop it from rearing its ugly head. Many things can expose these buried emotions. Things like fear, hatred, greed, and the feeling of having nowhere to turn. We can see these reactions affect the people of Salem in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. These feelings of fear, revenge, and greed worked their way into the town and not only caused the witch trials but caused them to continue longer than they should have.

Everyone has had a crucible or “serve trial" that they have been through which has forced them to change, look at things differently, or toughened up their mettle once or maybe more than one time in their lifetime. My crucible has made me look at things differently ,and toughened up my mettle. My crucible taught me to keep going, to not give up, and has strengthened my mentality. My crucible happens to be running. Before running I was the same old goofy kid and even after my crucible ,but my mind ,and my mentality has changed. Some people say running is not that hard or I can do that easily, but it’s not especially if you run for competition. Before running I used to think it shouldn’t be that hard or I can keep up with them, but I was proven wrong once I actually tried it. The Memorial track coach came to me one day ,and said to me that I would be a really good runner, and should come and joined the team. He knew me from doing a little track event in the 8th grade, and he saw I had potential to be a good runner which gave me a little confidence to join the team.

The Crucible is a fictional play that tells the story of Salem witch trials. It focuses on how mass hysteria can quickly destroy a whole community. In this play the characters forced to confess to a crime they did not commit or be punish for contempt of court. The author, Arthur Miller, wrote this play in response to the “red scare”, because he was accused of being a communist. In this play, the rumors are important, since the whole

“The only thing we need to fear, is fear itself.” famously stated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The United States has always struggled with fear, from the Salem Witch Trials in 1962 and 1963, to McCarthyism in the 1950s. Fear has been embedded into the foundations of the nation, and the fight to stop its’ spread has been fought by generation after generation. Arthur Miller understood this as he wrote The Crucible, and explored the theme within the play in two different storylines: the girls caught doing witchcraft and Reverend Parris’ power grab. It is also important to remember the context when the play was written in, McCarthyism, to understand the message the play is intended to communicate.