Essays on The Crucible

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are many “moments” where the author uses literary devices to convey how a few characters rebel against and conform to authority figures and peers and the values and expectations of Puritan society as a whole. Ultimately, Arthur Miller...

In modern day societies we consider conflict a part of our everyday lives, making it easier tohandle. Throughout ​The Crucible ​any conflict presented, resulted in a world of chaos which they did not know how to properly handle. Elizabeth Proctor deals with internal and external...

Miller explores desire and the gendered selfhood in various ways in The Crucible, however the text remains conscious of the context in which they are operating in. Miller presents desire in The Crucible conscious of the public’s perception of desire, sex, and the representation of,...

People worry about their reputation all time. People worry that their reputation is in jeopardy. There were so many people that were worrying about their reputation not the act “The Crucible”. There are many examples of this. There was John Proctor when he was accused...

The majority of people have enough common sense to make the split-second decision in favor of good over evil. However, the friction between good and evil is an immense conflict for those without proper reasoning. In The Crucible and “Where Are You Going, Where Have...

Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers, once said, “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. ” In other words, a good reputation takes a long time to form, often taking numerous years of...

Most people have developed a reputation for themselves in one way or another during their lives. The desire to protect one’s reputation is an extremely prominent theme in The Crucible. This play takes place in a Puritan society in Salem, where the moral code and...