Question How does Miller use the ending of each act to make the audience feel the madness in Salem? ... Miller utilizes Mary Warren's repeated refrain of "I cannot, I cannot " to reflect how crazy she has become. ... In Act III, Miller utilises Mary Warren's change of heart to fully epitomise the extent of which the madness in Salem has grown. ... Miller uses this case of hypocrisy to show the audience how a lack of logic has overrun Salem causing the aforementioned madness. ... All in all, Arthur Miller is able to use the ending of each act to make the audience feel the madness in...

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In Arthur Miller's The Crucible a small lustful unacceptable love story between John Procter and Abigail Williams transforms into a sinful plot that implicitly illustrates that in a theocratic society, heavy influence of religion constitutes corrupt power and authority that gains sufficient dominance and corruption to transform a miniscule injustice into a serious injustice affecting all of Salem. ... In The Crucible by Arthur Miller one inconsequential injustice developed into a significant injustice that caused the death of many, but was created through a small lie that was silenced and...

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Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible, a play depicting the tragic events that occurred in Salem, was "profoundly, angrily concerned with the immediate issues of our society." ... This anger with the events that transpired during the middle of twentieth century was what motivated Miller to write The Crucible. ... Arthur Miller's The Crucible reveals the human tendency to point the finger at others when one feels threatened. ... (Miller, Crucible 876) Her outburst at John is clearly caused by a sinister threat that Abigail utters in Act One. ... (Miller, Crucible 858) Although there is nev...

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