The Crucible Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was written in 1953 in conjunction with the anti-communist hysteria that had swept not only American society, but also the American justice system during the second Red Scare. Not contemporaneous to the time it was...

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, written in 1623, and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, written in 1953, are both historical plays based on a character’s extreme behaviors that have stemmed from evil desires and ulterior motives. Miller and Shakespeare set...

Brooks and Miller examine how during times of extreme crisis, opportunities of good and bad nature are born and the consequences are unavoidably suffered. Arthur Millers, The Crucible, an allegory of the McCarthy era in the 1950’s American...

When faced with extreme times of crisis, history has shown that humanity will show its fallible nature, particularly through the victimization and blaming of other individuals. Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, ...

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies!...I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (Miller 143)

This quotation is found both in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and in Aaron...

Political theocracy is an inherently oppressive, autocratic system, rendering individuals ultimately powerless. A composer’s political and personal representation subjectively constructs an audience’s conceptual and contemporary opinion through...

By the time Judge Danforth appears in Act III of The Crucible, the audience has become acquainted with a host of characters, each of which are motivated, in turn, by a desire to better their position, need for attention, saving of reputation, and...

In Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Rosalie Ham's "The Dressmaker", an unbalanced power distribution stemming from an unjust social hierarchy causes much jealousy displayed amongst the citizens of Salem and Dungatar, influencing their judgements...