The type play The Crucible is, is a tragedy. ... The Crucible was a story with a wide range of characters. All together the Crucible has many different characters with different personalities that make a whole story what it is. ... A few more characters in The Crucible are Reverend Parris, Thomas Putnam, Rebecca Nurse, Francis Nurse, Judge Danforth, Giles Corey, and Titbuta. ... The most important character in the Crucible is John Proctor. ...

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Introduction Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible,"" was first published in 1953 during the politically tumultuous time of McCarthyist America. ... The play's central character and tragic hero is John Proctor. ... Notes on Miller's Character, John Proctor 1. ... In Act Four, however, readers see the greatest change in his character. ... Throughout "The Crucible," John Proctor is not the same type of in his own eyes as others perceive him. ...

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play revolving around the Salem witch trials. ... The Crucible by Arthur Miller was written in 1950"'"s, which is set in Salem Massachusetts. ... Abigail is the main character as she has important issues to deal with due to her love for John Proctor. ... If I were to direct The Crucible by Arthur Miller I would have to find a very strong character. ... I also think the characters were well thought out. ...

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In The Crucible the Puritan Religion was taken to the extreme. Each character had a different relationship with God and if it wasn't profound enough you were accused. ... According to The Crucible, this was taken very seriously. ... The Salem witch trials in the Crucible was held up by the religious backbone of the Puritans.'' ... Surely you'll pray with them"(The Crucible, Arthur Miller, Act 1). ...

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McCarthyism in The Crucible In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. ... The Crucible was composed during a time when a similar hysteria was sweeping through America. ... The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in the spring of 1692 in a village shrouded with chaos. ... When writting The Crucible, Arthur Miller chose to speak through John Proctor on of the Salem witch trials victims. Miller uses Proctor as his character that defies the authority of the judges and their corrupt power (Carey 14). ...

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This is the driving force between the actions of the characters. ... This includes the townspeople, and the general aspects of the characters. The general aspects of characters are also similar in both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible. ... One other similarity between the characters are the similar town figures in each. ... Both have similar conflicts, settings, and characters. ...

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The Crucible highlights the tendency in America to witch-hunt. ... The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. ... In this respect Miller's determination to make a stand against corruption is epitomized by several characters in the play, for example John Proctor who shows him self to be a man of good character and an upstanding citizen who is looked up to by the other inhabitants. ... Another character who tried to live by moral standards was Giles Corey. ... One other character who stood by her morals all the way throughout the play was Rebe...

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In the two novels, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, betrayal can be seen as the base of the stories as characters like Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Baba and Amir destroy the trust they have with their family and friends. ... The entire hysteria in The Crucible comes into being due to the fact that many of the girls were caught dancing in the woods by Reverend Parris and they deny it. ... In comparison to Abigail's reign of terror through her lies in The Crucible, one might consider Amir's false impression in order to deceive his father. ... Mor...

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The Salem witch trials caught the interest of playwright Arthur Miller; he saw relevance in the themes and was inspired to write The Crucible. The characters were drawn from a conglomerate of primary accounts, and based on reality. ... Hysteria is the stem of significant events within the trials and influences the thoughts, feelings, and actions of characters. Hysteria in The Crucible is akin to a plague: deadly and contagious. ...

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Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is a drama based upon the 1960s Massachusetts witchcraft trials. ... In The Crucible, a similar event occurred. ... In third act of The Crucible, Giles Corey brings evidence to the court about his wife's innocence. ... This may be the reason Miller made Proctor the center character of stability in the play. ... These quotes explain the essence of The Crucible and McCarthyism. ...

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SUPPLEMENTARY READING: BOOK ANALYSIS In "The Crucible", a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692, by Arthur Miller, the author showed how a reverend, Rev. ... In The Crucible, a lovelorn teenager is spurned by the married man she loves, and in her revenge, she fans a whole community into blood-lust frenzy. ...

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Abigail is the dirtiest and most sinful person in The Crucible without a doubt. ... God's existence in The Crucible seems like more of an idea than a reality. ... Throughout The Crucible, God's role is played in the minds of the characters: he only exists in those who believe in him. ... The different characters" outlooks on who God is, sculpts the way they act and behave throughout the story. Whether they believed in God or not, his influence on the characters of The Crucible was profound enough to shape the direction of the story of the Salem witch trials. ...

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Arthur Miller gives people some insight into the Salem witch trials in his play, The Crucible, which shows how peoples" poor judgement led to hysteria and tragedy in the community of Salem. ... She realized at last that one part of his character might have been a bit flawed, but she should not have used that as the base of her opinion for the rest of his character. ...

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Lastly, in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible the immoral Abigail William turns the once quiet town of Salem into an inferno of violent mobs attacking those that they deemed "witches". ... Moreover, instead of acting like civilized adults, these characters decided to listen to an imaginative little boy's story. ... Furthermore, the idea that fear leads to this sort of mob mentality, is also expressed in The Crucible. ... Arthur Miller's feature of fear in The Crucible exhibits how the presence of fear can have a huge effect on humans' actions, and how much it can damag...

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Crucible into which Destiny casts a man whenever she desires a scoundrel or a demigod- (224). With the crucible, a man will "show his true colors."" It was once said that true character will be shown by instinct, in the blink of an eye. ... Marius proves himself to be a strong substance in the crucible. ...

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(nd.edu) In The Crucible, during all the time the witch trials have lasted, the judge of the court based his final decision only upon the Bible. ... Just like Proctor said in The Crucible: "-vengeance is walking Salem. "(73)The best example is the case of Abigail and Elizabeth Proctor, when Abigail mentioned Elizabeth's name to the authorities so she could get rid of her and have John all for herself. ... In The Crucible, Hale is accusing Proctor of not coming to meetings often enough: "In the book of record that Mr. ... Adultery is a very important sin in this play, since it haunts the m...

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Arthur Miller's "The Crucible- is set in the late 17th Century in a puritan settlement called Salem in the State of Massachusetts and is based on a true story of the Salem Witch-hunts. ... He does this by deepening the characters history and creating them a much richer background for them. ... Another is how he makes the character of judge Danforth into quiet, questioning and curious person from a harsh, single-minded person. ... The tone follows thought out the characters as they are morally vocal and speak a lot about what is right and wrong. ... Also the fact that they know that ...

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In 1953 Arthur Miller wrote a novel called The Crucible. This book is set in 1962 and it tells the story of the infamous witch trials that took place in Salem,Massachusetts. Throughout this whole story we find that greed effected much of what happened in Salem, in fact greed caused the whole probl...

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Yet when put to the final test, the meaning here of "crucible," he will go to his death rather than irrevocably compromise his integrity. ... Hale, minister of Beverly, is another character who moves from a comforting sense of goodness and capability to a humbling awareness of limitations. ...

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Based on this historical event, Arthur Miller wrote in 1860 his drama called "The Crucible ". ... People who signed petitions attesting to the good character and innocence of the accused friends and neighbors were immediately suspected and thrown into a prison. ... Arthur Miller illustrates how fear can drive people away from heir responsibilities in his play The Crucible. 1.2.2 Holocaust Next historical example of an outbreak of mass hysteria was Holocaust. ...

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It is all but coincidental that Tennessee Williams uses this to say when furthering Blanches character. ... There, he meet a fellow coworker, Stanley Kowalshi, who would later become a main character in the drama, A Streetcar named Desire. ... The Crucible won a Tony award of 1953. ...

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Most Shakespearean characters that, through their speech, reach a firm decision will conclude on a Shakespearean rhyming couplet. ... Through these characters Shakespeare highlights the effect of madness and the forms of it. ... Shakespeare effectively shows through the characters and actions in "Hamlet" that madness takes and does not give. ... Gertrude plays a vital role in Hamlet's madness, but makes limited appearance, perhaps, to distance her character from the omnipresent persona of the Queen. ... His relationship with these central characters creates, and concludes his delay. ...

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In this extract of the Crucible by Arthur miller, John is seen as in the wrong. ... She is very hidden and portrays a quiet and shy character but we know her as the strong controlling one in the relationship. ...

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English How effective is act 1 as an introduction to the characters and society of Salem and the themes of the play; witch craft, persecution, hysteria and social restrictions? ... Throughout the scene all characters show a false face in public we see changes with everyone's body language and the way they speak depending on who they are with. ... Other characters introduced in this scene are Goody Putnam and Mr Putnam. ... Throughout the scene all characters show a false face in public we see changes with everyone's body language and the way they speak depending on who they a...

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The dignity and nobility of her character, which she showed throughout the trials undoubtedly, helped turn public opinion against the trials. Her story is well known, and has been written in many historical and fictionalized accounts of the trials, including Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. ...

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