Arthur Miller

Reputation in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Reputation is something we all struggle to uphold. As humans, we want people to be thinking about us. Some just want attention, it doesn’t have to be specifically negative or positive; attention is often good enough. For many, their reputation is built through the attention they receive, whether it be for a girl’s promiscuity or a boy’s gentlemen behavior. Either way, reputation taunts all of us, whether we seem or act like we care. This is displayed…

Willy’s Recognition of his Failures In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy struggles to get through while constantly having to deal with his failures that he has experienced in his life. Although Willy Loman is a good person in some extent, it is still evident that he knows that he has failed but the thoughts Willy plants in his head stops him from recognizing some of his failures. Throughout the play Willy’s failures are seen by his job, by recognizing that he has failed…

The play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller was about this group of girls who go into the forest , and then they had started dancing . While they were dancing , Reverend Parris had seen them and asked Abigail if they have trafficked with spirits. One other key events of the story is that, Abigail Williams has also had an affair with Elizabeth Proctor’s husband John Proctor.The author’s purpose of this story is to inform the readers on what had happened during the Salem Witch Trial in the town…

The Crucible is a play that focuses on the awfulness of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behaviors that can result from dark desires and secret agendas. A jealous girl, Abigail Williams, is accused anyone and everyone of witchcraft, including her secret lover’s wife. These accused citizens were given unfair trials, and many of them were hanged without questioning. David Calvert is a man who is believed to be Jon Venables, the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger when in fact, he is not.…

four runs in a historic first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers' top farm team.In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible wanted to show a version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism the is the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism . But instead of seeing people that have been accused of treason or crimes against the government in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the reader sees people being accused of witchcraft.…

John Proctor and Giles Corey The play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, takes place in Massachusetts Bay during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The event made for many lives, families, and relationships to be threatened. In the play, characters John Proctor and Giles Corey were considered two men that have made many mistakes in the start, but toward the end of the play, proved that they could make a difference in the town. These two become the most brave and courageous men in the play…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller a girl named Abigail Williams is a young teenager that lives in the town of Salem and she is in search of power and is willing to lie to get there. “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osborn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”(Penguin). This quote shows how Abigail accuses all of these women in the town after she clears herself from sin by saying that she has written in the devil's book and that she wants God in her life. Once she says…

personification and other devices all serve one common purpose; to make the reader truly believe that they are living in what they are reading. Authors attempt to create portal doors in their writing for a sense of escape to an alternate world. Arthur Miller, an American playwright, essayist, and prominent twentieth century figure, devised one of the most infamous philosophical and allegorical “portal door” through the power of words and his direct use of poetic language. The Crucible, Set in…

2. What is the impact of Miller's use of symbols on the audience's understanding of the ways in which the Loman family clings to their version of the dream? In death of a salesman , through the use of symbols , Arthur Miller exposes to the audience the false dream the Loman family is desperately trying to grasp on and a representation of the end of each version of “dream” for the Loman family which eventually causes their misery. Each member of the Loman family is in denial or perpetuating a…

Jack Song CRWT 102-28 Professor Konstantinidis 10/19/15 The Crucible Arthur Miller’s The Crucible explores the mass hysteria and delusion inspired by the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The Puritan society escaped to America to freely practice their religion; they are a religious, closely bound group. In the town, rules and morals are more religion based instead of any form of government; residents must have the Ten Commandments memorized and follow the Bible closely. In the book the town of Salem…