Crucible Essay

talks about how being put on this list ruined your life, and would hurt your name. The same things happened in The Crucible after the girls would said they saw thwe person with the Devil your life was over, and even if you admitted you're a witch no one in the town would talk to you. This is the same as the blacklist. Just as in The Crucible your life was ruined the same

Preserving one’s reputation is a very prominent theme in The Crucible. Although it is shown throughout many different characters, John Proctor and Abigail Williams are two of the most obvious throughout the story. John Proctor shows he cares about his reputation throughout The Crucible. John wants his name to be remembered as pure and good for not only him but also his children. At the end of the day, he wants to die for something he believes in. This is shown in the story after John Proctor signs

The Crucible can convey many different themes. I believe that the main theme of the Crucible would be jealousy. I chose this as an overall theme for many different reasons. One example of jealousy in the play would be when Abigail Williams wanted Elizabeth Proctor dead so she could be with John Proctor. Abigail tried to accuse Elizabeth for stabbing her in the stomach with a needle and also tried to get Mrs. Proctor in trouble by placing the needle in the doll to make it look like she had possession

Since its release, The Crucible has won 4 awards including the BAFTA Film Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role”, the Critics Choice Award for “Best Supporting Actress”, the Empire Award for “Best Actress”, and the SEFCA Award for “Best Supporting Actress”. Most of these awards were given to Joan Allen, who played Elizabeth Proctor in the 1996 film adaptation of The Crucible. In the film, it did an excellent job of accurately depicting the play and bringing the story to life

In The Crucible Arthur Miller uses the setting, the plot, and characterization to propel the play. In this play The Crucible one of the major events was the adultery that was committed. The adultery was committed by John Proctor and Abigail Williams, adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse. Adultery is, a god awful sin. The setting in the crucible has an important impact on how it was. There’s many different ways that the setting impacted

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, has had many historical controversies and view points. In my opinion, after reading this play, the objectivity and censorship is not relevant to the level of uncertainty presented in small town’s uproar about the presentation of the high school play. My understanding of the play has been altered in a positive way due to the historical contents presented; I have been able to appreciate, although not completely agree, with the strict religious values present during the

So said Tom Wilkinson, who played the role of John Proctor in the 1990 National Theatre Production of the Crucible. The question of course, is the very question that lies at the core of the play: the decision of whether or not to confess. Throughout life, we find ourselves faced with these very questions, these problems, these dilemmas even and we must find ways to overcome them. The Crucible provides an excellent medium through which students can learn about these problems, and in the process learn

people were tried and convicted for witchcraft. These trials were the basis on which Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible. Accordingly, there are many instances of mass hysteria throughout the play. The mass hysteria exhibited in the play can be described as anxiety and unusual behavior in a group of people caused by an abnormality with no real backing. In his play The Crucible, Arthur Miller exhibits multiple examples of mass hysteria and depicts the factors and effects related with it by utilizing

essential part of life, for better, or for worse. It enables authors to add depth to their stories by creating characters that are either dynamic or static. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Maxine Hong Kinston’s The Woman Warrior, dynamic and static characters play large roles in developing the plot. Mary Warren, in The Crucible, is a dynamic character whose unpredictability and compliance affects not only her own fate but also the fate of others in the play. In contrast, Brave Orchid, in The Woman Warrior

Jennifer Torres
Ms. Wyatt
AP English Language and Composition, Period: 6
8 February 2016
  Woe of Fools Within his play "The Crucible" Arthur Miller utilizes hysteria, hypocrites, and closed-mindedness in order to create an allegory to 1950s McCarthyism.
  Miller utilizes hysteria to make an allegory for what he went through in the 1950s. The "afflicted" girls of the town shriek, "I saw Goody Sibber...Alice Barrow...Goody Booth with the devil." This quote demonstrates how the girls fall into an exaggerated