Discussion Questions On The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Ashton Franquiz
AP Lang
Eairheart 4th
31st october 2016
Hots Questions

What made Miller use irony a a lot in his writing, did it help his cause and purpose of writing it? Miller’s use of irony in his writing helped him get his points across and give a sense of comic relief to the readers, in his example of Proctor reciting the Ten Commandments and forgetting the one about adultery gives a laugh for the audience seeing how he was unfaithful to his wife and had an affair with Abigail.

2. Was religion the main reason he came up with the idea of the crucible? Millers see’s religion in this time as corrupt and when he was writing the Crucible it was obvious his point of view of religion had to do with it’s tainted ways. He used witchcraft

What made the novel more entertaining than emotional as they said in an interview? The Crucible has a more entertaining viewpoint rather than emotional. None of the readers can grow attached to the characters, and they can’t very much relate to them either which gives the audience a separation from the novel. Miller used things such as irony to give comic relief which makes the novel more entertaining to read than emotional.

4. What kind of research was necessary for writing this novel? Miller said in his passage he had to travel to Salem and based most of his inspiration from the european fascism. He research and read a lot on communism and the problems it brought and emulated it into his writing of The Crucible.

5. What did he find out that he hadn't before when writing this book, did he change his outlook on what he already knew about the witchcraft in the 1800s or did it not change? Miller states that he read on witchcraft in college and he was pretty neutral on it, but it wasn’t until he read a book published in 1867 that he knew he had to write on this time period. His opinion didn’t seem to change much he seemed to grow more passionate for the topic throughout his research and writing of the