Film Review of The Crucible Salem was a town in which, perhaps like many others, various people held grievances or grudges against one another. ... While there are some obvious differences between the stage play and the film adaptation of The Crucible, the latter stays quite true to its original form. ... The movie version of The Crucible, having the advantages of film, conveys the story better than the stage play does. Because motion picture opens up the possibilities and mediums in which to get a message across, it has the potential to do so, and it does so quite well in The Crucible. ...

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Arthur Miller chose a powerful and deep Title for his play The Crucible. Not only does it have many obvious meanings in which stem from the word "Crucible," but underlying ones as well. ... The word Crucible may be defined in many ways, as a porcelain container in Chemistry, or a dire and severe trial/test. ... This heated anger can be symbolized by the second definition of a Crucible, the tools used in Chemistry. ... But, one may look at this and think, "What does this pertain to the play The Crucible." ...

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Themes and The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a historical play, but more importantly a social and psychological drama. The diverse ways the themes are developed through The Crucible are through characters, plot, setting and dialogue. ... Above all The Crucible investigates the mass hysteria which infects the whole community. The concept of evil is central to The Crucible. ... The Crucible's main theme 'evil' can be developed through characters such as Rebecca Nurse who warns us of the danger of seeking of spirits and Abigail Williams who is evil, commits l...

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The Crucible The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a novel that portrays the witch trials that took place during the late 1600's. ... Four characters in The Crucible demonstrate this theme in its entirety. ... As you have seen, The Crucible provides excellent examples of one of the theme's, retaliation. ...

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The Crucible The word crucible in the dictionary means a container of metal used to heat things to high temperatures or a severe searching test or trial. ... The witch trials eliminated undesirable persons from the society just as a crucible eliminates unwanted metals from the mixture. In the Crucible there are many characters that undergo changes and some that do not. ...

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Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, first produced in 1953. ... These aspects are just a few reasons as to why The Crucible has been recognized as an excellent play by many reviewers and audiences alike. Because of these reasons and many other outstanding aspects one can understand why The Crucible won last years last years Broadway Tony Award for best revival play. ... The Crucible. ...

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In the book The Crucible several girls lie to get out of trouble. ... The title the Crucible fits the story that it told. The definition of Crucible is a tool use to melts materials at high temperatures. ...

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In The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, many problems arise, some as serious as life or death. Many innocent people in The Crucible were hanged. ... However The Crucible leads the reader to believe that the majority of the guilt could be found in Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and John Proctor. ... Quite the opposite of Abigail Williams other people in The Crucible have the best of intentions, but still caused harm and suffering on others by the things they do or say and the things that they do not do and do not say. ... The characters in The Crucible had many different motives for accusin...

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The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter are two exceptional books that deal with the issue of guilt .The Crucible portrayed to be a modern play written by Arthur Miller based on a true story, of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. ... In The Crucible, as well as in the Scarlet Letter both groups of people were told to abide by certain rules of the Puritans. ... Although The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter consist of numerous similarities, it had a few differences, as well. In The Crucible Proctor despised Abigail and her constant yearning for him. ... Yet, The Crucible was a true story based on accoun...

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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 fluctuated. ... There are little reasons for telling the truth in The Crucible, but for lying the reasons became infinite. ... In the theocratic society of Salem in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, heavy influence of religion constitutes a power that corrupts and a death wreaking authority. ... In Act Three of The Crucible the greatest act of corruption is seen when many of Abigail's accusations have t...

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The young girls in The Crucible used slander to ruin people's good name for revenge and attention. ... The Crucible is a play that accentuates the consequences caused by jealousy. ... Putnam also shows jealousy in The Crucible. ... Many other characters showed signs of jealousy in The Crucible. ... Within The Crucible, the judgment of many people was clouded by jealousy. ...

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What is the mean of crucible? Well the dictionary defines crucible as a severe test or trial,but how does it apply to the play The Crucible It applies to the play because the people during that time that were accused of being witches or having dealings with the devil were put through severe test. ...

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A crucible has two definitions: 1) a container made of a substance that can resist great heat and 2) a severe test or trial. In The Crucible, John Proctor is representative of both of these definitions because of the situations that he must overcome and the people that he has to deal with. ... However strong a man John proves to be, he is not indestructible, just like a crucible. ... John Proctor can also represent the second definition of a crucible: a severe test or trial. ...

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In The Crucible, Arthur Miller examines what can happen to a town that believes into their religion and are superstitious of what can happen if you aren't into your religion. ... In The Crucible, religion and superstition runs through the town leading everyone in the town in mass hysteria of the evil that may take over. ... The trials in The Crucible takes place in a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play believe that witches are the center of community and is God's work. ... The Crucible is story about trying to put the blame on someone...

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In the play "The Crucible," by Arthur Miller there are many villains. ... Abigail is the worst villain in The Crucible because of how crazy she is. ... These are some of the reasons why Abigail Williams is the worst villain in The Crucible. ... Abigail is the worst villain in The Crucible....

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The Crucible People often do things in their life that they generally regret. It could be from pushing your little sister to stealing a sucker from a candy store. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor has great remorse about a feat he committed in the past. He learns that former ac...

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The Analysis Thesis Statement: The Main character in The Crucible has both the same characteristics as in Death of a Salesman, sharing protagonist, point of view, and character analysis. ... The Crucible John Proctor 1. ... The Crucible a. ...

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The Crucible The story was about a girl named Abigail who accuses many people of witchcraft. ... A good theme in the crucible is the hunger for power because it shows you can get actual power in the town of Salem. ...

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The Crucible depicts a society in which justice is under attack. ... In the play, The Crucible there are many factors working against justice which are as follow. ... All these factors will be discussed to explain the factors working against justice in Arthur Millers, The Crucible. ... Without this aspect, the issues of The Crucible would not exist or not seem as significant as they do. ... Therefore, false accusations are a factor working against justice in The Crucible. ...

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The word crucible means a serve test. ... He faced a lot of crucible as soon as he came into power until the play was completely over. ... Keeping his promise to his friend and getting over the biggest crucible ever, most likely more than half of the world will never been through what he went through, to me he is the most honest and trustworthy man more honest than any human man alive today. ...

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Analysis of The Crucible The language used in The Crucible is Arthur Miller's adapted version of the language spoken at the times found in the actual court records of the trials. ... We were set the task of acting out part of a scene from the Crucible. ...

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The Destructive Nature of Reputation in the Crucible An Analysis Reading the events of the Crucible I found to be the most relevant theme to modern society, to be that of reputation. ... In the Crucible there is a clear link between the reputations of the powerful, and the deaths of the innocent. ... Arthur Miller clearly defined the importance of both reputation, and its theocratic vehicle, in the play "The Crucible". ...

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In The Crucible, a lot of conflict was going on about witchcraft. ... The Crucible had a lot of conflicts which were mostly related to either witchcraft or harming others. ... As a result, in The Crucible, there were a lot of accusations made of witchery, and it affected the whole town. ...

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The Crucible Not everyone in the world has integrity. ... Now when you first read the play, The Crucible, it seems as though John Proctor doesn't have as much integrity as we"d all like him to have. ...

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THE CRUCIBLE After reading Arthur Miller's play The Crucible it has become evident that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Tituba, Abigail, and Hathorne. ...

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