Is The Crucible Still Relevant Today

“The Crucible” takes place in the late 1600’s in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. At this time, people believed that witchcraft existed and that commonly people practiced it. The town of Salem was a very religiously based settlement and was very strict about its rules towards witches and witchcraft. The play is based off of an actual time when multiple girls lied about practicing witchcraft, and about people using witchcraft to force the girls to use it. Throughout the play, the lie continues to escalate because the girls do not want to get in trouble and the trials and panic gets very out of hand. Three major factors that caused the Salem witch trials to escalate so far

In The Crucible, there was a lot of senseless behavior. The purpose of The Crucible is to educate the reader on the insanity that can form in a group of people who think they are judging fairly upon a group of people. Judge Hawthorne believes what he is told by certain people is the truth even if little evidence is to be shown. The young girls with Abigail convince Hawthorne of others being witches so that Abigail can get what she wants, John Proctor, also so that Abigail does not blackmail the girls. The Crucible by Authur Miller investigates the effects of hysteria, superstitions and repression on the Salem Community in the late 1600’s.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, is a play that replicates the actual events of the Salem Witch Trials. The event is considered mass hysteria because there was a vast group of people who were behaving completely irrationally. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts throughout 1962 and 1963. Salem was a theocratic town, meaning their laws were derived from religion. Children dancing in the woods with Tituba, the slave of the town Reverend, led to accusations of witchcraft because dancing was thought of as the devil's work. There were, of course, a few members of Salem who did not believe in witchcraft, but their opinions were ignored. The reason this became a hysteria is, all one had to in order to get someone arrested for witchcraft was state their name. These accusations then became a way to get revenge on someone who had done wrong to them. The large number of victims of the Salem Witch Trials, and the speed and senselessness of the spreading of accusations, makes this event a tragic part of our history.

“As the most dangerous inmates, the witches were kept in the dungeons. These were perpetually dark, bitterly cold, and so damp that water ran down the walls” (Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials). Throughout the late 1600s, the accusations of witchcraft in Salem became a common thread. Over 200 people were accused and more than twenty were hanged. The idea of empowerment was altered when girls of Salem made profound accusations against well known people of the town. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, portrays the empowerment of characters that forever affected the lives of people in Salem through rhetorical questions, pathos, and imagery.

The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a historical play based on the witch trials. The witch trials Occurred in Salem in the year of 1692. Though the trials have religious and supernatural implications. Miller tends to show the troubles of many flaws. Throughout the trials many characters show many flaws in different ways. Everyone has flaws. These particular flaws lead to deadly situations. The characters in The Crucible show the flaws, Greed, jealously and vengeance.

The Crucible is a play that is about multiple things that happened in the Salem witch trails and how the characters behaviors have affected the whole play. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The characters take in plenty of actions and the setting are all symbolic of abstract ideas and issues between all the characters. Although, The Crucible is a play that relates to the witch trails in Salem and the consequences that have occurred with the people in the play. The Crucible also has plenty of violence’s and killing events, there’s other parts of where the characters are just lying to each other and there’s also other parts where they all hide something from someone in the play as in the usual most of them did. The Crucible has a strict religion but others in the play believed in “witchcraft”, as what Abigail accused Elizabeth of doing in the play to escape from her truth to be revealed because Abigail had an affair with the Proctor.

While reading the Crucible people may believe that witch trials are a thing of the past, but the truth is that witch hysteria is a conflict people even face today. Witch hysteria was first felt in 1692 when a group of young girls said they were possessed. This started to spread and everyone would accuse others of being witches. Lot of people were tried, and if they denied being a witch they would be hung. 20 people were put to death as a result of the trials. Looking at the Salem trials, as well as more recent events we can tell that human nature wants an explanation for the unexplainable.

The main focus of the play The Crucible is the era of the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts went on a massive witch-hunt. People were accusing others of witchcraft, and because of this innocent people were killed. If a person confessed to witchcraft, they would be put in jail, but if one denied it they were hanged. The whole epidemic started when Reverend Parris found the girls dancing in the woods. After the girls were caught, Betty Parris falls mysteriously ill, and there is no

Throughout the text of The Crucible, author Arthur Miller portrays the Salem Witch Trials as an occurrence based in emotion, rather than logic. Although the church maintained an influence in the trials, the main cause of witchcraft convictions was not religious fear. Rather, the trials stood as a testament to the enormous amount of vengeance inherent in society, be it today, or nearly four centuries ago. Much of the same forces that drove the witchcraft hysteria of the 17th century drive the social climate of the present day. Among these problems in society include fear, particularly prominent in The Crucible with allegations both commonplace and irrational. Jealousy, too, is a driving force in the witch trials with regard to the social status of the higher clergy, or over a land dispute. Overall, fear, jealousy, and greed contribute to the witchcraft hysteria by strengthening the cause and prolonging its control over society.

The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts and the events leading up to it. Salem at the time was a very religious and strict community with very little to do. In 1692, some of the girls in the town fell ill, not being able to find a cure or reason for the sickness the people of the town turned to the explanation of witchcraft. Many people were jailed and hung on the accusation of witchcraft without proper trial. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller portrays the theme that when hysteria sets into a community then that community can be destroyed and free of logic.

The Crucible, a 1952 play written by Arthur Miller set in the years 1692 and 1963, during the Salem Witch Trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. During the exposition of the play, a teenage girl dances in the woods, which in that time period, was considered an act of witchcraft. She says that the older women in the colony placed a witch’s spell upon her to do such an action. She lied about what she did and in turn, got the adults into trouble with the court.

“The Crucible,” a play by Arthur Miller later turned into a major Hollywood movie, explores the politics of fear, social norms, and the fight to recapture a man’s moral compass. Miller paints his story using the small tight knit community of Salem circa 1692 as his canvass, brilliantly weaving historical fact and fiction to portray a scenario not unlike events seen since. The infamous witch hunts of 1692 and wild accusations of a subversive culture that threatened to tear away at the fabric of society are at the center of the film. Originally conceived in the 1950’s during the red scare, it is well known and accepted that Miller sought to highlight the similarities with the ongoing persecutions of accused communist sympathizers. The

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller which takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play is supposed to be based on real life events that happened during the Salem witch trials. During that period of time most people believe that the Bible was the most important law to follow. The Salem witch trials happened because the Bible mention that witches exist and people were encouraged to have a Bible in their house and go to Sunday Mass or their will be consequences. Even though the Bible mention witches, the people should have sense it that the girls were lying, they were only finding a way out of their troubles.There is many people to blame for the salem witch trials that has taken away so many innocent people's lives and left

Arthur Miller in The Crucible implements many conflicts that define the plot. The people of Salem were in a state of paranoia after suspected witchcraft by some of the villagers. This state of paranoia caused many other conflicts in Salem. Many villagers attempted to lie their way out of witchcraft conviction which led to conflicting sides and drama. Because lies will eventually catch up to you, Mary and the girls were facing big consequences for attempting to cover up the witchcraft they were involved in.

The Crucible, by author Arthur Miller, tells the story of a small but extremely religious puritan village in Massachusetts called Salem. The Crucible takes place in the year 1692, when superstitions regarding Lucifer, where the act of witchcraft were most feared. A group of girls from this small town claimed to be possessed by witches as an attempt to get out of trouble from being caught dancing around a fire in the woods. Unfortunately these stories of witches in Salem soon became known through all of Massachusetts, which immediately got the attention of the counsel. The significant use of conflicts these girls are put through and how they respond to them accentuates that it is human nature to act in a selfish manner when there is any sign