The Puritans arrived in America in the 16th and 17th centuries hoping create a purified version of the church as they believed the Church of England had still had too many components of catholicism. Humans are also invertly evil and this wickedness is displayed throughout many stories. Finally, moral values are also a central conflict to many stories. Puritanism, the evils of all humans, and moral conflict are a central themes to all three of The Crucible, “Young Goodman Brown”, and “The Minister’s Black Veil”. Although these stories are seemingly unrelated stories on the surface however when considering the under-the-surface meanings of these stories many similarities appear including the impact of Puritanism, the wickedness of all humans, and moral conflict.
In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller and in M. Night Shyamalan's film, The Village both contain examples of jealousy transforming a character demeanor. In The Crucible, Abigail desires John Proctor so profoundly that she wants his wife dead and she attempted by convicting her of witchcraft. Abigail affirms that her name is “white” in the town; however, she initiated the Salem Witch Trials as a result of her longing for Proctor. An illustration of this concept is when Abigail complains to Proctor that, “She blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me!
Franklin D. Roosevelt once stated “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” this is extremely apparent in the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller that depicts the events that took place during the salem witch trials. These events in American history had countless similarities that led to the persecution of many innocent individuals. Arthur Miller effectively demonstrates this concept in his play The Crucible by drawing parallels between the witch trials of the 1690’s and the “The Great Fear” of the 1950’s. The Salem Witch Trials and the “The Great Fear” were both the product of fear, hysteria, and false accusations.
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, there exists a common theme of adultery, a sin according to the commandments of the Puritan church. The stories center around the adulterers- John Proctor in The Crucible, and Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. Both are members of early Puritan communities that are known for their very devout faith. Each character shows different reactions and feelings towards the sin, and each must face different consequences. A common theme that brings the two characters together is that they are given a chance to escape their sin and move on with their lives.
The times back then were terrible. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953 about The Salem Witch Trials of 1692.McCarthyism was the “witch hunt” for the communist in 1953.the parallels between The Crucible and McCarthyism are naming names,lack of proof ,and reststance. The first reason they are parallel is because of naming names. Hollywood director Elia Kazan went in front of the HUAC twice. The first time he did not confess and names.
Niccolo Machiavelli once said, “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, are set in the seventeenth century puritan New England. Adherence to puritan values is paramount, yet both protagonists commit grievous sins around which the plot revolves. The fall from grace, the subsequent consequences and the transformation of all the characters is uniform across both books. The metamorphosis of the protagonists is similar yet so distinct that it seems that Hawthorne and Miller are trying to convey the same message in different dialects of the same language.
The poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband", and parts of the play "The Crucible" have many similarities. In the poem Bradstreet states her love for her husband, and how she'd rather not live than live without him. For example, she says, "That when we live no more, we may live ever." This statement shows how much love she has for her husband, and how she couldn't go without him. This relates to "The Crucible" because both of the stories show their love for their significant other.
“The Crucibles” and the “Dying girl that no one helped” this two stories that have a lot in common, like the fact that people are judging the victims of having done something they didn't do. Abigail accuses goody proctor and others of having done witchcraft in “the crucibles”. In the “Dying Girl That No One Helped” one of the spectators said he didn't call *911* or even helped the women. Because he/she thought the girl was drunk. In “The Crucibles” as well as in “The Dying Girl That No One Helped” there is people judging each other for a crime in a court.
The crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials which took place from 1692 to 1693. Arthur Miller's the crucible focuses on the Salem witch and extreme behavior that came from people's hidden agendas and dark fantasies. The Dying Girl that no one helped is an article written by Loudon Wainright. The dying girl that no one helped talks about the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese where 38 people witnessed the crime and did nothing about it. At first glance, these two stories sound like they should not be mentioned to each other.
The Crucible movie and play had many differences, although only one noticeable difference changed the perception of the The Crucible. Both the movie follows the play quite closely, the major difference being the ending. The play version of The Crucible concludes with Elizabeth’s response to being told to stop her husband, John, from being hanged. Elizabeth closes out the play by saying that John chose the morally correct option and it is his choice to die as a result of that choice. The movie ends with three of the town's authority figures are kicked off the platform and hanged.
As time has passed, throughout history, during different periods of time there are parallels. There are three eras that we are focussed on, where there are three types of people during each era. The three different eras that we’re focusing on, are The Salem Witch Trials (1600s), The McCarthy Era (1950s), and Today (2000s); the three types of people are the people who are the reasons why there’s accusations towards the accused, the accused, and finally the accusers. In The Crucible, or during the Salem Witch Trials, the person that’s the reason why characters were accused is John Proctor. The accuser in the play, who decides to point fingers at everyone, is Abigail Williams.
“The Crucible” is a fiction story that took place in a small town called Salem in the state of Massachusetts in 1692 during the spring time. The plot of this story is about a group of girls who went into the forest led by a black slave named Tituba. They were all dancing in the forest until Reverend Parris caught them dancing in the forest and even saw one of the girl naked. Parris’s daughter Betty who was there in the forest falls into a coma-like state when Reverend Parris caught them. Reverend Parris only noticed his daughter was sick the next day and accused Abigail William, who is Reverend Parris’s niece, of witchery and caused his daughter to go into a coma-like state.
Lies, Pressure, and Reputation. Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” and Chinua Achebe's “ Things Fall Apart” have more in common than meets the eye. The main characters in these stories, Abigail Williams and Okonkwo, both have a reputation to uphold and both have a significant effect on their community. Although the goals they had set for themselves were not met, they were able to impact their community in momentous ways.
Both Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” are both books that present us with the theme of ‘men of conscience’. John Proctor and Atticus Finch, both fictional characters from the books, are considered to be ‘men of conscience’. A man of conscience is a man aware of the moral and ethical judgements he has a strong desire to do the right thing whenever possible. The life of these men is ruled by their desire to seek the truth and justice in the situations around them; these traits are displayed in both of the characters throughout both the novel and the play.
The threat of Communism and the Red Scare put fear of group mentality into many people during the late 1940-50s. The authors of 1984 and The Crucible used their respective works to comment on the social injustice going on in their own lives, which connects to injustice the exists throughout time anywhere in the world. Miller wrote his play, set in 1692, about Puritans and the Salem witch trials because he believed that, similar to his trial for HUAC in the 1950s, the trials in Salem were caused by false accusations and mass hysteria led by powerful individuals. In 1984, Orwell creates a world in the near future that shows group mentality and its threat to conform society with the government.
