Comparing Sin In The Scarlet Letter And The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to represent conflicts invloving good and evil and to involve morals throughout. The play is classified as a morality play and Arthur Miller used characterization and symbolism to represent his ideas of conflicts invloving good and evil. First off, Arthur Miller created the characters known as Proctor, Elizabeth, and Giles Corey. These characters were created to represent Miller's idea of a play classified as a morality. Proctor is married to Elizabeth and both characers were written in terms of breaking the commandments and sinning.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two stories that are based on mass hysteria and public shaming. Both stories and their topics are what helped to shape America’s early identity. In The Crucible, the townsfolk accept and become active in the hysterical climate not only out of genuine religious piety but also because it gives them a chance to express repressed sentiments and to act on long-held grudges”. This shows that there is mass hysteria in the story based on the quotation and its explain why people have mass hysteria or why they do it. A group of teenage girls is discovered dancing naked in the woods by the town minister.

Arthur miller greatest stage play The Crucible wrote in 1953. The crucible was wrote as a metaphor to the mccarthy trials . Mr. Miller described the book witchcraft trials which is a whole different time period but, this book was trying to represent that the time of the mccarthyism, and how everyone was being accused and harassed for being a commie. In fact Mr. Miller himself was accused for being a commie. In his stage play he made similar connection, like how he had the characters all be accused of witchcraft and even anyone who talk or looked like one was accused , many of the them where innocent people.

Reader’s Response Act 2 In reading act two of The Crucible, we discover the important role power plays in the lives of John Proctor and Abigail Williams when rumors of witchcraft continue spreading. John Proctor is known as a prominent landholder and farmer in the community of Salem, whereas Abigail is Reverend Parris’ niece and a former servant for the Proctors. I believe Proctor is in a difficult position because he knows he can stop Abigail’s accusations, but not without the whole town finding out about his affair. When act two begins, Proctor comes to the realization that Abigail has taken over the town of Salem and she’s gaining power.

Religion envelopes a plethora of distinct phases, structures, and beliefs. For example, religion could be used as a vessel that enables a support structure, creates wider unity within a group, and pushes things like charity. The other side of the coin, however, is one of corruption, injustice, and greed. Out of the two, Arthur Miller chose the latter when it came to the production of his play The Crucible. Although, being a fictitious account of the Salem Witch Trials, The Crucible used the realistic setting, and overall premise of Salem Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials.

On the Play "The Crucible by Arthur Miller, we follow the dramatic story of a group of people on Salem Village in which crimes of "wirchcraft" are being accused among the citizens of the village. We are able to percive the message that people in order to avoid consequences for wrong actions find another person to take the blame. By the 1870s, Salem Village was primarly goberned over religious beliefs, in which all the saint and demons were creatures existed under the minds of the innocent people. On the story Abigail and a group of girls, start dancing on the forest(something that was prohibited by the strict religion.

Moreover, another important crucible someone had in the story developed from the very beginning all the way to the end. In the beginning of the story before even the trials really began we learned about the adultery of John Proctor. While in the house talking to Elizabeth, they have a conversation about what John has done and how she cannot forgive him, he must forgive himself, “You will not judge me more, Elizabeth” (54-55). He says she forgets and forgives nothing but he will not forgiving himself.

Arthur Miller’s other notable works include “The Crucible,” which was 1953 play production concerning the historic Salem witch trials, “A View From the Bridge,” “The Price,” “The Misfits,” “After the fall,” The American Clock, “A Memory of Two Mondays” and “All my Sons.” In total, Miller wrote 17 plays, many of which were performed on Broadway. Through the year he won many awards and prizes for his work, notably the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Tony Award. The drama critic Mel Gussow, in the New York Times, wrote , “he holds man responsible for his and for his neighbor’s actions.” Critics raved about the consciousness of his work and it’s ability to shed light on the world and its truths.

“The Crucible” Literary Analysis “For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.” –James 3:16. Translating this quote into the new, simple meaning would be, “For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.” There is a connection between both, Envy and Jealousy, which both take upon people and do such evil, sinful acts. Abigail, who was strikingly beautiful, dishonest and a manipulative woman in “The Crucible,” had caused such drama throughout the village of Salem, in the year 1692.

starting from Chris who wants to forget his brother Larry and tries to escape his suspicions about his father just to marry Ann and adopt another identity. And even Ann herself is an instance of adopting a new self; she escapes the shame of her father and her anger of his crime by deciding to marry Chris. And the major escaping character is Keller himself, who deliberately blinds his own eyes from the truth and lives disguised in the character of the considerate husband and the honest man. All these themes are used to echo a hidden idea about the ethics and the lost moralities. Miller managed through this play to construct a moral system based on the original virtue that should mount any personal interests (Andreach, 98).