In Arthur Miller’s two plays the Crucible and the Death of a Salesman, they both following the sort line of the “American Dream.” The Death of a Salesman is about how Willy Loman is a salesperson living in New York with his wife Linda, in the same house for the last twenty-five years. Willy starts having flashbacks which leads him to lose his job. The flashbacks are of him cheating on his wife, how Biff is a football star, and about his brother becoming rich. Linda, Willy’s wife is a devoted and loving wife to him. She sticks up for him when their boys are home and think that he is crazy because of his flashbacks. In the Crucible, it was about how the tragic hero had an affair on his wife and then kicked out the girl. Then series of witchcraft stuff came up they thought but it really didn’t. There was foreshadowing in the beginning of the play about the witchcraft stuff. …show more content…
I think the play the Crucible by Miller, John Proctor the literary character has a major flaw, Abigail the teenage house servant. In the town his reputation is highly concerned so he tries to hide his adultery, but the crime only starts a strain of events that happen in Salem. The events were that Abigail and the other house servant girl,s saw the devil through witchcraft. By the end Proctor decides that telling about the affair will help instead of doing more harm. But he is just convicted of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hung but can be saved if he said he saw the Devil, so he did but he ended up go8ng back on that lie because he didn’t want to be saved by a
Proctors Grave Mistake Corruption has always existed in our society since the beginning to present time due to conspiracies such as the witch trials and the communism era. The Crucible by Arthur Miller was written during the era of communism to mere the hysteria. The Crucible is about the Salem witch trials in Salem Massachusetts in 1692. It’s a corrupt witch trial in Salem that’s due to false accusations of witchcraft for personal gains. John Proctor is the protagonist in the story The Crucible who goes through the ultimate test by choosing his reputation over integrity.
In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail William’s flaws – mendacity, lust, and arrogance – that led her to be responsible the most for the tragedy of the witch hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. Driven by lust, Abigail was able to lie to the Salem community in hopes of covering her and her friends’ deeds and gaining the attention of John Proctor. Her arrogance enabled her t0 advance her deceit.
Everybody has a flaw that leads them to their downfall. John Proctor, from the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, had many flaws that lead to his death, but is known as an honorable man. “The Crucible” is about a group of girls committing witchcraft but accused other innocent victims. Any of the victims the girls would accused would go to court and most likely would get hanged. John Proctor was one of the victims and was hanged because of false accusations. John Proctor is an honorable man because he is honest, he refuses to blacken his name. However, he does cheat on his wife which leads to all of the chaos in Salem.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” People tend to behave and deal with life differently according to the situation that they are in. In most cases when a person is in a very blissful and comfortable point of his or her life, they tend to act pleasant towards themselves and other people. This is why it is not fair-minded to judge people when they are in a contented part of their lives. It is during times of trial and suffering where the true soul of a person is revealed and judgment can be made. Readers can see the actions that are made by characters through times of hardship that reveal what they truly are in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Crucible by Arthur Millar.
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” In the case of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Edward Murrow is uncannily accurate. The Crucible, set in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials, proves that when one antagonist has accomplices, they can destroy the lives of many. In this story, Abigail destroys the lives of everyone in Salem. That being said, in times of stress or panic, people's’ true traits and personalities can be discovered, as shown in the cases of John Proctor and his damning indiscretion, Rev. Hale’s panicked realization, and Mary Warren’s naive and fearful indecision; all of which develop throughout the play in response to different stimuli.
Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible" illustrates a powerful drama based on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. A very strict theocracy rules Salem; a place where the bible is law and anyone who does follow the rules to the letter, must have dealings with the devil. The accusations of witchcraft in Salem start off by a group of girls who were caught dancing in the woods. Dancing is forbidden and out of fear of being punished or even accused themselves of witchcraft, the girls begin to accuse others for having been seen with the devil. In an attempt to prove that they were lying John Proctor sacrifices his own life to protect others. (LEAD IN SENTENCE). John Proctor portrays the classic tragic hero, in where his tragic error and overcoming of evil, becomes the cause of his untimely death.
The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a historical play about the Salem Witch Trials. The play contains a historical allegory to the Salem Witch Trials and a political allegory to Mccarthyism. John Proctor is one of the main characters in and is considered the tragic hero of the play. Throughout Miller’s play, John Proctor is seen as the protagonist of the play because he is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in, even if no one else agrees with him. John Proctor’s intention to hang instead of admitting that he was consorting with the devil was an act of honor because he didn’t want to lie for the sake of saving his own life, but also wanting to prove that Puritan society has changed because of the Salem Witch Trials.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on real events in 1692 about the Salem witch trials. A group of girls were joking around in the woods and pretended to play around with witchcraft. The main character John Proctor who is a married respected man with 2 kids must try and stop Abigal his former servant/mistress before she gets everyone in the town killed because the church is believing her over everyone else regarding her accusations in witchcraft. Proctor has a greater positive effect by allowing the church to take his life so that the truth can be revealed and the people who were killed did not die in vain.
Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” shows how materialism destroys a person and drives them to insanity. Willy, the play’s protagonist, is a man who is obsessed and addicted to work and money to the point where he is going mentally ill. The play shows Willy growing steadily into a man who ends up killing himself because his mind won’t rest. By not letting his mind rest, Willy in the beginning almost gets into a car accident. Although the first scene with Willy is when he almost crashes the car, it’s also when we see his relationship with his wife Linda. Linda and Willy have a very unhealthy marriage fraught with stress, anger and infidelity. Willy in “Death of a Salesman” is a man who constantly belittles and disrespects his wife and cheats on her. Willy is also the type of man who can be classified as someone who wanted to be a hero, especially to his two sons who resent him and who he also resents. Willy wanted to be the dad who his sons loved and inspire to be, but he ends up pushing them away. Willy’s sons Happy and Biff resent their dad because of how he treats their mother, and how he has respect for everyone except his family. Willy is a man who is not only addicted to work and money, but women. In the play “Death of a Salesman” we are introduced to the idea of the “American Dream” which is a gorgeous home, two to three children, good paying job and a supportive spouse and as Americans this is the most common dream we all share. Willy thought he was living the “American Dream”; two sons, a wife and a nice house, but he had a secret of being a fraud. Willy was living the “American Dream” on the outside, but on the inside his life was unorganized and most of all filled with anger. The reasons Willy was not the man w...
Purist Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 suffered from a rapidly increasing phenomenon: witchcraft accusations and trials. The Crucible is a play that recounts the times of this incident. For the most part, it follows a man known as John Proctor. He is a sensible, honest, and hardworking man who made the mistake of succumbing to lust which sets off a chain of events that leads to the witch trials, and to his own demise. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible’s protagonist John Proctor proves to be a flawed human being who struggles to make sense of his past relationship with Abigail, his love for his wife, and his pride.
Intolerance is synonymous with small-mindedness, parochialism, bias, discrimination, and inequality. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, intolerance is the main theme. In addition to The Crucible, the Holocaust is a prime example of a historical event where intolerance is present. The underlying theme in The Crucible that usually goes hand-in-hand with intolerance is hysteria. There is a cause and effect relationship between the two; when there is a high level of intolerance, the people involved usually end up contributing to the existence of hysteria. There are many similarities between the Holocaust and The Crucible, but the one that stands out the most is the prevalence of both hysteria and intolerance being woven into the culture.
In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller goes into detail about the historical event, the Salem witchcraft trials which took place in Massachusetts in 1692. The drama centers on John and Elizabeth Proctor and a young girl Abigail Williams, whom John Proctor has committed adultery with. In order to get rid of Elizabeth so that Abigail can have John to herself Abigail accuses John’s wife of witchcraft, a crime that was highly frowned upon. John proctor goes through a series of changes from being a horrible person who cheated on his wife to a tragic hero who will give up his life to say his wife. John proctor is viewed as many things in this play but at the end he come out an honest and noble man.
A tragedy should bring fear and pity to the reader. A man in this tragedy should not be exceptionally righteous, but his faults should come about because of a certain irreversible error on his part. This man should find a bad or fatal ending to add to the tragedy of the story, for this man in the tragic hero. The protagonist John Proctor portrays a tragic hero in The Crucible; his hamartia of adultery causes great internal struggles, he displays hubris by challenging authority, and he encounters catastrophe through recognition and reversal.
Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is a statement to the 17th century witchcraft. The Crucible renders John Proctor as a puritan, a husband, and a highly respected man. His name is his prime possession. John Proctor is a farmer and a villager who is faced with intense dilemma. He also commits adultery, which becomes his tragic flaw. Therefore he is to make a decision to tell the truth and ruin his name or lie and save his most prized possession. By this John Proctor is portrayed as an honest, tenacious, and faithful man.
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a story about the dark side of the "American Dream". Willy Loman's obsession with the dream directly causes his failure in life, which, in turn, leads to his eventual suicide. The pursuit of the dream also destroys the lives of Willy's family, as well. Through the Lomans, Arthur Miller attempts to create a typical American family of the time, and, in doing so, the reader can relate to the crises that the family is faced with and realize that everyone has problems.