Why Is The Crucible By Arthur Miller Alive Today

Crucible Final Essay Based on what I read in the Crucible and what we know about him, if Arthur Miller were alive today, I believe he would not advocate limiting the entrance of Muslims into our nation. Arthur Miller is the type of person that disagrees with judging one particular person by their race, religion, and what others say about their “kind”. Therefore, we can’t be afraid of everyone that belongs to a certain religion like Muslim just because of the acts of the radical Muslims. This would be like, in the Crucible, if everyone in the towns surrounding Salem thought that all of the people of Salem had to be witches because of a few that were accused. Abigail’s accusations lead everyone to believe that there was a serious threat to the

The Salem Witch Trials had 19 innocent people hanged and killed because of false accusations. If we turn away all Muslims, we would be leaving them to the horrible living conditions in Syria. We can either save them from the harm they once faced or leave them to suffer. In the Crucible, there was a defender of the innocent, accused witches. Reverend Hale tried his hardest to make hanging the last possible option. For example, he pleaded with Elizabeth Proctor, trying to get her to convince her husband to confess himself, “Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie… Will you plead with him? I cannot think he will listen to another.” (p.58) Where is Syrian refugees’ defender- the one that will make turning them away the last possible option? Arthur Miller would have wanted someone like that to stand up for

In the article, Why I Wrote The Crucible, Arthur Miller states, “My own marriage of twelve years was teetering and I knew more than I wished to know about where the blame lay.” (p. 3) John Proctor was in the same situation with his unstable, crumbling marriage because of the choices he made. John Proctor was a character that gave Arthur miller a kind of hope. Arthur Miller wrote in Why I Wrote The Crucible, “That John Proctor the sinner might overturn his paralyzing personal guilt and become the most forthright voice against the madness around him was a reassurance to me, and I suppose, and inspiration: It demonstrated that a clear moral outcry could still spring even from an ambiguously unblemished soul.” (p. 3) During the time Arthur Miller was writing the Crucible, the fears of Communism was a big problem in the United States. Many people, including Arthur Miller himself, were questioned and suspected of being a Communist. John proctor may have inspired Arthur Miller with that problem of the hunt for Reds enough that he wrote the Crucible. In the biography of Arthur Miller it says, “The Crucible was not successful in its first productions. Some critics questioned the comparison between the old witch-hunts and the contemporary hunt for Communists in the government.” (p.2) The critics may have been entirely right on that comparison because it wasn’t a coincidence that he just happened to write it