Crucible Final Essay Based on what I read in the Crucible and what we know about him, if Arthur Miller were alive today, I believe he would not advocate limiting the entrance of Muslims into our nation. Arthur Miller is the type of person that disagrees with judging one particular person by their race, religion, and what others say about their “kind”. Therefore, we can’t be afraid of everyone that belongs to a certain religion like Muslim just because of the acts of the radical Muslims. This would be like, in the Crucible, if everyone in the towns surrounding Salem thought that all of the people of Salem had to be witches because of a few that were accused. Abigail’s accusations lead everyone to believe that there was a serious threat to the …show more content…
The Salem Witch Trials had 19 innocent people hanged and killed because of false accusations. If we turn away all Muslims, we would be leaving them to the horrible living conditions in Syria. We can either save them from the harm they once faced or leave them to suffer. In the Crucible, there was a defender of the innocent, accused witches. Reverend Hale tried his hardest to make hanging the last possible option. For example, he pleaded with Elizabeth Proctor, trying to get her to convince her husband to confess himself, “Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie… Will you plead with him? I cannot think he will listen to another.” (p.58) Where is Syrian refugees’ defender- the one that will make turning them away the last possible option? Arthur Miller would have wanted someone like that to stand up for …show more content…
In the article, Why I Wrote The Crucible, Arthur Miller states, “My own marriage of twelve years was teetering and I knew more than I wished to know about where the blame lay.” (p. 3) John Proctor was in the same situation with his unstable, crumbling marriage because of the choices he made. John Proctor was a character that gave Arthur miller a kind of hope. Arthur Miller wrote in Why I Wrote The Crucible, “That John Proctor the sinner might overturn his paralyzing personal guilt and become the most forthright voice against the madness around him was a reassurance to me, and I suppose, and inspiration: It demonstrated that a clear moral outcry could still spring even from an ambiguously unblemished soul.” (p. 3) During the time Arthur Miller was writing the Crucible, the fears of Communism was a big problem in the United States. Many people, including Arthur Miller himself, were questioned and suspected of being a Communist. John proctor may have inspired Arthur Miller with that problem of the hunt for Reds enough that he wrote the Crucible. In the biography of Arthur Miller it says, “The Crucible was not successful in its first productions. Some critics questioned the comparison between the old witch-hunts and the contemporary hunt for Communists in the government.” (p.2) The critics may have been entirely right on that comparison because it wasn’t a coincidence that he just happened to write it
From Witches in 1692 to Muslims in 2001 Arthur Miller in the play, The Crucible, suggests that people of society create a separation between outsiders and insiders of the town, often prosecuting the outsiders to make them stand out even more from society. Miller supports his claim by describing how the young girls of Salem blame the outsiders of their town of witchcraft. The author’s purpose is to point out that falsely accusing outsiders will not have a good outcome in order to convince the reader to not divide society. The author writes in a satiric tone to mock the McCarthyism era of communism.
The hunt for communists affected his writing of The Crucible. Arthur Miller had written The Crucible as a reaction to the tense political climate. In the Article, “McCarthyism and The Crucible: What to Know,” by Samantha Lindsay its states, “Arthur Miller had a distaste for McCarthy’s investigations in the early 1950s, and he claims to have written The Crucible in 1953 largely as a reaction to this tense political climate.” Miller had a hatred for McCarthy’s investigations. Because of the power McCarthy had it would give the communist fear.
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.
Cameron Oldfield Mrs. Brincks English III 15 November, 2015 The Crucible and Red Scare Imagine being thrown in jail, blamed for something that you didn't do .The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a story about how certain propaganda and false accusations can ruin lives, just like in the case of the Red Scare. Although 1692 the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare were over 200 years apart, The similarities are striking. both trials used intimidation, fear, hatred, and false accusations to ruin innocent lives. Both trials resulted in terrible outcomes, with both ending with innocent people being put to death and shunned from society.
History repeats itself. While the two events do no mirror identically they are highly similar, and both from a modern lens seem ludicrous. Communism wasn’t as widespread as people believed, and not every resident of Salem was a
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.
How The Crucible Advocates for a Change in Political Attitudes The Crucible and “Why I Wrote The Crucible” are works by Arthur Miller written for the purpose of advocating changes in political attitudes. During the construction of the play, The Crucible, Miller was living in the United States. Miller was concerned with the government and how it wrongfully accused people for supporting Communism. He realized that this phase, called “The Red Scare,” deeply resembled The Salem Witch Trials, which inspired him to ink The Crucible.
JOHN PROCTOR: TRAGIC HERO Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a greatly revered work, and it reflected the times of America in the days of McCarthyism. Perhaps the character that connected to the audience most was John Proctor, the protagonist of the play. He reflects the mistakes that we have made in our lives, and the struggle that some of have while trying to take the blindfold off of other people. He should be considered a hero because he feels guilt, and therefore tries to make up for the fact that he once had an affair.
Proctor’s Opposition to His Society In the book, The Crucible, Arthur Miller introduces us to John Proctor. Proctor is married and simple, yet he's argumentative toward his town for the persecution of “witches.” Proctor faces conflict throughout the town, his morals are challenged and his view on ethical implication are changing.
One of the most powerful human emotions is desire. Everyone is constantly trying to fulfill their own desires. A desire or passion may be so strong it can conflict with morality. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams, is driven to go against her moral duty and pursue John Proctor. She will stop at nothing to see her plan through.
Why Did Arthur Miller Write The Crucible? Fear very often leads to unexpected and unwanted results. Decisions made in fear are often more dangerous than the thing being feared. In the United States during the Cold War fear had been running rampant.
“The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott This is a quote John Proctor sure would have approved of. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible depicts the last days of the life of John Proctor. In this short time, John Proctor goes through many changes that support Miller’s theme that love is more enduring that lust.
In The Crucible, Miller described Abigail as a “beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling” (Miller 142). In the story, Williams serves as the
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953, as a response to McCarthyism, which is, in general, accusing people of crimes with little to no proof. It ran rampant through the United States during the Second Red Scare through the early 1950s (exactly when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible). In The Crucible, Miller juxtaposes the leaders, who rationally think for themselves, and the followers, who believe what everybody else believes, through irony, imagery, and denotation. The Crucible is riddled with irony, and Arthur Miller utilizes situational and dramatic irony to show the difference between followers and leaders.
Arthur Miller constructs his play upon the famous Salem witch trails. Miller's Crucible was written in the early 1950s. Miller wrote his drama during the brief reign of the American senator Joseph McCarthy whose bitter criticized anti- communism sparkled the need for the United States to be a dramatic anti- communist society during the early tense years of the cold war. By orders from McCarthy himself, committees of the Congress commenced highly controversial investigations against communists in the U.S similar to the alleged Salem witches situation. Convict communists were ordered to confess their crime and name others to avoid the retribution.