How would you feel if you were hanged for an accusation that you didn’t perform? Well this is exactly what happened to the characters in “The Crucible”. Good morning/afternoon audience, today I’m here to persuade you into choosing “The Crucible” as the next play to perform at the school performance. By the end of the discussion I will have stated how it provides a dramatic appeal, how it’s still relevant to today’s society and the how it uses aesthetic features that will interest the audience. The most significant reason “The Crucible” should be the next play is because of the dramatic appeal it has to the audience. The play would be dramatically appealing to the audience in a number of ways. An example of the dramatic appeal the play possesses is the use of archetypal characters. Arthur Miller, the author of the play does this with the main protagonist John Proctor who is constantly trying to overcome the evils of his past. Throughout the play you see that he is a flawed hero with how he performed lechery. However, during the play you also see …show more content…
The play was originally written for readers to draw connections with the time of the play which was during Salem 1692 when an actual witch hunt was occurring and the time when the play was written which was during 1952 USA when a communist witch hunt was occurring. The play uses allegory to position readers to be critical of the McCarthyism period during 1952 by having it share a number of similar aspects in comparison to Salem. The play also uses juxtaposition by having characters who display high levels of personal integrity punished and the characters with little to no personal integrity facing no real consequence. Features like these performed in the play will make the performance both interesting and a learning experience. This makes it even more necessary that “The Crucible” should be