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Examples Of Allegory In The Crucible

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In the past there has been many extreme events that has contributed to the world we live in today. The play, The Crucible, is a dramatized version of the Salem witch trials,which is an allegory of McCarthyism. The play itself focuses on the extreme behavior that mainly resulted from dark aspirations. Over 200 people were accused of witchcraft during the time of the trials. Many cases turned out to be untrue. To sum it up, this play can be shown that it is an allegory of McCarthyism by giving deeper background information on the book, what McCarthyism is, and how they compare between one another. In particular, the book’s beginning of the action took place in the home of Reverend Parris. The priest discovered his niece Abigail Williams and his black slave Tituba, “dancing in the woods” as they would say. However, the real story can be interpreted as the two girls attempting to conjure dead spirits. Rather than suffer from extreme trouble for their actions, …show more content…

Very ironic, right? The actions of these young women unfortunately resulted in mass paranoia and tons of finger-pointing. At this point everyone was a potential witch. The town’s people were starting to question if the accusations of witchcraft resulted in the young girls illnesses.Throughout the story the “ringleader” Abigail Williams starts to lose track of her lies and eventually they start to surface.Abby was a malicious person who wanted to do everything in her power to break up the happy home of her married lover John Proctor. This is where Elizabeth Proctor was accused of witchcraft. John takes Mary to court to testify against Abigail and her crew of the false accusations of witchcraft against Elizabeth.The judge was very suspicious of John’s

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She is accused of witchcraft, and naturally Abigail tries to take the blame off of herself. But she goes a bit too far. Abigail starts accusing everyone, but one person she is particularly interested in is Elizabeth Proctor. Since Abigail and John Proctor

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The play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is about the Salem witch trials of 1692 witch resulted in the death of nineteen innocent people. The plot begins in a small Puritan community in Salem, Massachusetts when Abigail Williams and several other young girls were caught in the woods dancing around a fire by her uncle Reverend Parris. His appearance shocked some of the girls into silence. The strange behavior of the girls resulted in many of the townspeople to turn to witchcraft as the cause of their behavior.

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I just come from the farm; the whole country’s talkin’ witchcraft! They’ll be callin’ us witches, Abby!”, affects the readers to feel that the town is in great anxiety against the witchcraft. There are so many

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Abigail was not only one of the girls that got caught dancing in the forest, she was the only girl that drank a blood charm in order to kill John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth Proctor. The Jealousy and hate she has for Mrs. Proctor is undeniable when she calls her “a bitter woman, a lying cold sniveling woman” (1271) and a “gossiping liar.” Abigail clearly conjured with the devil in hopes that it would get rid of the only obstacle standing in the way of her being with Mr. Proctor. Abigail naively believes that her feeling for John are reciprocated because of an affair that may or may not have happened. With the jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor and desire for John Proctor, we can see that Abgail’s motives for accusing other people , specifically Elizabeth, are completely self-centered.

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How many times has one action by one person influenced crowds of people to follow? This is known as “mob mentality”: when a group of people is influenced by a person’s actions to change their behavior and think as a group. In both The Crucible by Arthur Miller and “Half-Hanged Mary” by Margaret Atwood, groups of people who share the same beliefs can conform to a certain idea, whether it is correct or not. No matter how one views the story, it is evident that both communities in the play and poem were determined to band together and to bring these “witches” to extinction. The reasons for having the accused executed seemed unlawful, and it is presumed that with the acceptance of the community, unjustifiable actions become acceptable.

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In history there have been many major events that have shaped the times we live in. Two of the major events of our time are the "witchunts" of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism. The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a drama and fictional story of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. Miller wrote the play as a parable for McCarthyism, when the United States government ostracized people for being communists.

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‘The Crucible’ an allegory that Arther Miller created connecting The Salem Witch Trials and The Red Scare. When Arther Miller wrote the play ‘The Crucible’, he was coming from a position of victim. Aurther Miller uses The Salem witch trials as a symbolic story of what happened during his time period. An allegory is a story that can be intercepted on both literal and symbolic levels, which was exactly what Miller did. He took a real story and real life events making an allegory.

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The Crucible a play by Arthur Miller was created in 1953. The Crucible was based on a Salem Witch trail which occurred between 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory. The witch trail that’s took places in Salem shows how a community can be torn apart by lies, fear, and religion.

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Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is a political allegory because it uses characters from the Salem witch trials, such as Reverend Hale, to criticize the uncontrolled use of authority of McCarthy during the era of McCarthyism. In terms of harsh treatment, theocracy, and biased arguments made by people in authority, the McCarthy hearings and the witch hunt share certain historical similarities. For example, in the play Parris and Hale argue, “ Parris: This is a clear attack upon the court! Hale, to Parris, trying to contain himself: Is every defense an attack upon the court?

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Abigail Williams and the girls is responsible for the deaths of the people who were wrongly convicted and hanged. Also Danforth has some of the blame for this situation as well. However, the girls are the ones who started this situation because the book explains, “Mr. Parris said, “That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest,” (6). In Salem, the rules are to not go through the woods and dances. Now people think that they are doing witchcraft.

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(I.465-472). Seeing Abigail cry, it suggests that Abigail’s affair with John Proctor has influenced her behavior in jealousy and lust as she strives for nothing more than her love for John Proctor. By only being heartbroken, Abigail is not to be fully blamed for the hysteria within the town as her actions are only based on desperate attempts to win John Proctor over, and no intentional harm whatsoever. However, on the other hand, Abigail cannot be excused with outside forces making her the way she is due to the fact that she has clearly had a choice in most of her decisions and actions throughout the witchcraft crisis. When Mary Warren, another girl involved in the forest incident, enters the court, she explains to Danforth, the judge, that the girls are lying and are only pretending to see spirits.

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The Crucible “Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them. ”---- John Tillotson. Although it is usually perceived as a concomitant of religious goodness, piety at times is false. Like a beautiful plant which grows deformed and withers because of wicked roots, false piety bears the fruit of evil, which fulfills one’s selfish and malicious agenda by taking advantage of the trust of others. Such phenomenon is demonstrated most vividly through Arthur Miller’s skillful depiction of Abigail Williams and Reverend Parris’s manipulation of the people of Salem in the play The Crucible, where they use the townspeople’s desire for virtue and piety to achieve their personal gain.

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Miller, within The Crucible, uses symbolism creates an effective allegory that shows the connection that it has to McCarthyism. The symbolism used within the play symbolized McCarthy’s accusations and allegations. The doll that is found on Elizabeth Proctor's shelf is considered a traditional symbol of voodoo and witchcraft, “Elizabeth: ‘I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl.’ Cheever, embarrassed, glancing toward the mantel where sits Mary Warren's poppet: ‘I spy a poppet, Goody Proctor.’ Elizabeth: ‘Oh!

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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

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The Trail of Lies The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller is a unique piece of work. Many themes are embedded in the work. One significant theme that is prevalent throughout the play is lies and deceit. Miller applies the theme of lies and deceit all throughout the play because practically all the characters are lying either to themselves or other individuals which plays a hefty role in the plot.

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