The Crucible is a wonderfully written book by Arthur Miller in the 1950's. ... Even though The Crucible was not the most successful book that Miller wrote, it was popular and still is popular in many places around the world. ... Arthur Miller wrote this book to bring back the past of the Salem Witch Trials so that people could see what it was like, or at least read what it was like during that time. ... These themes are only a few of the many in the book The Crucible. ... Miller's use of describing people and places was high-quality along with his thought of the word choice. ...

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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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Annie Yingling 10/22/03 English 2 The Crucible McCarthyism in America was a time of fear and distrust in fellow Americans. ... Through his subtle connections, Arthur Miller's play The Crucible efficiently shows the tyranny of consensus during the Salem Witch Trials, and during the period of McCarthyism. Although The Crucible debuted in 1953 while, McCarthyism was still at large it was not very effective in providing social commentary and promoting change. Miller wrote about the injustices against the disensus during the Salem Witch Trials. ...

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In the Crucible, plenty of different stories circulated of people changing, being arrested, and just simply accused. Arthur Miller, the author of the Crucible, shows the transactions that the characters go through using direct and indirect characterization; He shows how Abigail's manipulation, Proctor's withholding, and Elizabeth's loving character develops through out the play. ... " (Miller 1155). ... " (Miller 1232). ... The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, shows the development of the characters throughout the play. ...

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The Crucible", written by Arthur Miller in 1953, is a play set in the time of the Salem Witch Trials. ... Through Proctor, Miller shows the death of individuality comes from a tight knit community. ... In "The Crucible", mass hysteria is produced by a simple rumor and consequently the townspeople begin to turn on their own neighbors, accusing them of witchcraft. ...

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The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, is based on witch trials. ... In The Crucible the character that displays most significant signs of mob mentality would be Abigail, who is Parris's niece. ... (Miller 53) This is displayed by a line where Elizabeth says: Elizabeth: The Deputy Governor promise hangin" if they"ll not confess, John. ... (Miller 52/53) Mob mentality is basically a group or a person leading the pack and gathers followers along for the ride. ... Mob mentality can destroy communities and is in the ...

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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, by Arthur Miller illustrates and demonstrates the extent that personal vengeance can have on a society where townsmen accuse their own. The trials in the Crucible take place against the back drop of a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their community is God's work. ... Arthur Miller and his friends were accused of being communist. ...

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The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a great play based on the Salem Witch Trials. ... By adding the witchcraft and hanging scenes, Miller makes the play seem more complete. ...

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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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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 novel, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail William, a young teenager girl causes the town of Salem to go corrupt. ... The reason why Arthur Miller wrote this book because of John Mc. ... The Crucible is an analogy of the Mc. ...

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Like for example, in the book The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, to which the highly manipulative, conniving and mischievous Abigail Williams distinctively chose evil over good, and wrong discarding right . ... Arthur Miller's The Crucible, reminds it readers that we are all individuals and different from each other but deep down we are not as different as we think we are. ...

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The Crucible takes place in the Puritan New England town of Salem Massachusetts in 1692. When the play opens a group of girls are dancing in the forest with a black slave whose name is Tituba. The local minister Reverend Parris catches the girls dancing in the forest. His daughter, Betty Parris, was...

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A look at Abigail Williams Abigail Williams is the antagonist character in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Throughout the play she does not change much. She basically stays the same, but her true character appears. Abigail's main motivation is to win John Proctor. She blames witchcraft on Eliz...

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In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, John Proctor's dealing with the devil eventually leads him to confessing much like Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth. ... In The Crucible, John Proctor is a man that does not go to church regularly. ... Her husband states that he does not believe in the local priests "hellfire and bloody damnation,"(Crucible 1187) sermons and that is why they do not go to church. ...

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller, written in response to the 1950's anti-communist actions, is a play that recollects these famous trials. ... The citizens represented in the work of Historical Drama, The Crucible, fail to live up to the Puritan ideals that are imposed on them by their society. ...

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