The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is a play written in 1953, during the Second Red Scare in the United States. This play takes places in Puritan Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials.The play begins, when a group of girls are dancing in the forest with a slave from Barbados by the name of Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by the town’s minister, Reverend Parris. The following day, Betty, Parris’ daughter, is found unconscious and very ill in her bed and the people of town become suspicious of witchcraft. Abigail and Betty begin accusing other members of the town of witchcraft leading to hysteria and the death of innocent people. The Crucible is an allegory to the 1950s communist hunt led by Wisconsin republican senator …show more content…
Arthur Miller writes this novel to show the similarities between the Salem witch trials and the Second Red Scare.The single most significant subject in The Crucible by Arthur Miller is the nature of authority because it decides the outcome of the witch trials.
The nature of authority decides the outcome of the trials because the church has power over the people of Salem and their daily lives. The people of Salem lived in a theocracy, where the church has full power influence over the people and decides the laws and punishments of the town. The Puritans were very religiously strict and required all members of Salem to attend church on Sundays, know the commandments and prayers. One example in the novel that shows how important religion was in the play and the power of the church is when Reverend Hale asks John Proctor to recite the ten commandments, failing to do so, Proctor only is able to recite nine out of the ten. Miller
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Throughout the play, Deputy Governor Danforth Hathorne and Judge Hathorne abuse their power and condemn innocent people of witchcraft with no sufficient evidence. During the trials Judge Hathorne orders Giles Corey to be arrested for interrupting the court and saying he has evidence that the girls are lying. In the play Giles states “Thomas Putnam is reaching out for land”( Miller 78) and Judge Danforth states “Remove that man, Marshal! Arrest Him Excellency.”(Miller 78). This quote shows that when Corey wants to state his testimony he is not allowed to do so by Judge Danforth and Hathorne. Instead he is ordered to be arrested by Judge Hathorne for contempt of court. This shows that how the Judges of the court have are corrupt and their power to their advantages by condemning innocent people. Judge Danforth also says "Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.”(Miller 126). In this quote we see Danforth admitting to having knowledge of his wrong doing and false accusation. Instead of owning up to his own mistakes, he gives a long oration about how he represents God, and that if he admits to his wrong doing he is admitting to God's wrong doing. This furthermore shows the power of the court and the most of people that were condemned had no evidence
The play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is about the Salem witch trials of 1692 witch resulted in the death of nineteen innocent people. The plot begins in a small Puritan community in Salem, Massachusetts when Abigail Williams and several other young girls were caught in the woods dancing around a fire by her uncle Reverend Parris. His appearance shocked some of the girls into silence. The strange behavior of the girls resulted in many of the townspeople to turn to witchcraft as the cause of their behavior.
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953. Arthur Miller wrote the play because he was inspired by McCarthyism. McCarthyism was the hunt for communists that was taken too far. In The Crucible he presented a universal message. He was comparing how communists did exist and witches did not, but yet they were both taken as serious.
Giles refused to tell them and it backfires and he is condemned himself. Hathorne wants to arrest him for contempt of court. Corey is arrested at the end of the act for contempt in court. These are the reason Giles was asked to tell names in court because he spoke his mind to get his wife out of getting hanged.
Hysteria in Salem The Crucible is a play written by American author, Arthur Miller, in 1953. It is a somewhat fictional play about the Salem Witch Trials. Miller wrote it as an allegory to the Red Scare, the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism. Miller himself was blacklisted for refusing to testify in front of the HUAC, a committee that was created to investigate any person who might be a communist.
Why is Giles Cory expelled from court? Why won’t Danforth hear his evidence? Why is Cory arrested? Giles Cory was expelled from court because he would not list people who signed the document about Putnam wanting to take land. Danforth won’t listen to him for this reason.
¶“A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you—see her what she is . . . She thinks to dance with me on my wife 's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat.
The Salem Witch trials took place in Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 where people were killed if they were thought to be witches. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller writes about the witch trials and what happened during that time. The Crucible has many themes throughout the play. One prominent theme is the theme of mass hysteria. Mass hysteria is shown in many cases throughout the play such as the scenes when the people of the village of Salem are accused, in the court room while the people state their case, and when the townsfolk are about to be hung after failing to call out other witches.
The Salem witch trials proved to be one of the most cruel and fear driven events to ever occur in history. Many innocent people were accused of witchcraft, and while some got out of the situation alive not everyone was as lucky. Arthur Miller the author of The Crucible conveys this horrific event in his book and demonstrates what fear can lead people to do. But the reason as to why Arthur Miller felt the need to write The Crucible in the first place was because the unfortunate reality that history seemed to have repeated itself again. In the article “Are You Now or Were You Ever”, Arthur Miller claims that the McCarthy era and the Salem witch trials were similar and he does this through his choice of diction, figurative language, and rhetorical questions.
The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller to compare his own life experiences to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In the Crucible, young girls in Salem Village start to act in strange ways. They blame their behavior on witchcraft and begin to accuse certain people they do not like or get along with of practicing witchcraft on them. The community in Salem is very religious and fear the Devil and his powers. so even without evidence against the convicted people, the community believed the girls and executed all that were accused of witchcraft.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a dramatic play that expresses a very important message and that is how far people would go to save themselves from the hands of death. There are many characters in the Crucible who are guilty of taking innocent lives, but there are three major characters who, without a doubt, are the most at blame. The play takes place in the city of Salem, a city filled with people that would do anything to keep their reputation clean. Throughout the play, Miller is introducing multiple characters that experience changes in their decisions and negatively influence more people eventually leading up to the witch trials. The main point that the story revolves around is that people would rather lie and blame someone else instead of confessing and accepting the punishment.
The Crucible was created in 1953, which shows the story of the Salem witch trials. This event occurred in Massachusetts Bay around the time1692-1693. The plot of the crucible started when a group of girl claimed that they were dancing in the forest with Tituba (slave). The girls were caught by Reverend Parris (Minister). Parris’s daughter (Betty), ends up falling in a coma but we later found out that she was faking being in a coma because she was scared that she going to get in trouble.
It can be hard for the deaf and hard of hearing to become engaged in theater. Sign language interpreters, though extremely helpful, do not allow deaf audience members to fully experience a show. South Plantation High School, one of the only schools to offer a program for the deaf, cast tradition aside to create a rendition of “The Crucible” that is truly one of a kind. The dark, witchcraft-filled production follows a series of deaf characters who are narrated in English, rather than the other way around. “The Crucible” initially debuted on Broadway in 1953 and was written by Arthur Miller.
The Crucible is a 1953 play written by Arthur Miller. It is amplified and somewhat novelized story of the Salem witch trials. Miller wrote the play as a parable to the McCarthyism persecution of communist sympathisers. In this play, a group of Puritan girls are found dancing and conjuring with the devil in the forest. Soon the whole village of Salem knows about the dancing and starts accusing people of witchcraft.
The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. It takes place during the Salem witch trials. Salem is an isolated town in the Boston area that is set up perfectly for witchcraft accusations. Abigail is being accused of witchcraft and she is a manipulative girl. Abigail has been accused of committing witchcraft in the woods and she plans to bring other people down with her.
In our society, many people rely on the power of law and justice in order to protect themselves. Some powerful men abuse and misuse their power which brings many unfairnesses and tragedies. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Judge Danforth is a deputy governor of the state, and he is also the judge for the witchcraft trail. Judge Danforth represents the authority and supremacy in the entire play. Throughout the play, Danforth’s tyrannous and stubborn personality caused many wrong decisions that he made in the court.