Category: Arthur Miller

Reverend Hale as a Dynamic Character in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend Hale makes an internal change throughout the story by shifting his opinion from being convinced the witchcraft was real to making the realization that it was all a ploy for vengeance towards other characters in…

Why Did Arthur Miller Name His Play ‘The Crucible’ The play the  Crucible is written by Authur Miller and was published in 1953 as a response to what is known as the communist scares in America in the 1950s. The definition of a crucible can be defined as a severe test. Although it also…

Why Did Arthur Miller Wrote ‘The Crucible’ The role of human behavior and motivations within the human experience has been a fundamental part of many texts which explore the depths of humans and their personal experiences. Arthur Millers dramatic allegory The Crucible represents cold-war McCarthyistic America through the eyes of the village of Salem Massachusetts…

The Influence Of Society: The Crucible By Arthur Miller The Crucible,(1953) is a play composed by Arthur Miller to allegorically comment on the behaviors seen in society at the time of his writing the play. Miller uses the word crucible to depict a test of the most decisive kind or a severe trial however it…

The Crucible’: Danger of Making Assumptions In the play, ‘The Crucible’ Arthur Miller writes about a fire and its representation of hysteria and a crucible to depict that in times of hysteria, making assumptions will only create additional chaos and paranoia by leading one further from the truth. The concept of fire through symbolism and…

Reputation In The Crucible By Arthur Miller The Crucible story lands in a village called Salem where people believe that the devil resonates there. People in Salem were prosecuted even when they were all probably innocent and their deaths were all due to false accusations to peoples ridiculous belief in superstition not questioning if there…

Timeless Theme In The Crucible By Arthur Miller The Crucible is a play written in pre-modern times, which is still relevant in the postmodern era. Arthur Miller wrote the play during the time of the Red Scare, in which multiple people were being convicted of communism without evidence or proof. The increase in the use…

The Crucible By Arthur Miller: Guilt And Power Of People The Crucible is a play written by American playwright Arthur Miller in 1953 and takes place in the Puritan New England town of Salem Massachusetts. This play mainly focuses on and describes the true events of witchcraft during the years of 1692/93. During these years…

The Crucible By Arthur Miller: Unbalanced View Of Men And Women In the play The Crucible by author Arthur Miller, it is very apparent that Miller presents an overall unbalanced view of men and women. The Crucible is a play about the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts and begins with a girl…

Why Did Arthur Miller Name His Play ‘The Crucible’ The play the  Crucible is written by Authur Miller and was published in 1953 as a response to what is known as the communist scares in America in the 1950s. The definition of a crucible can be defined as a severe test. Although it also…