The Crucible By Arthur Miller ACT I: Scene 1 SETTING: A bedroom in Reverend Samuel Parris‘ house, Salem, Massachusetts, in the Spring of the year, 1692. As the curtain rises we see Parris on...

The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.

Arthur Miller characterizes this political climate of fear in the United States by setting The Crucible during the frenzied witch trials of Salem Massachusetts. The play both mirrors the era of McCarthyism as a whole, and also shows how Miller was implicated and testified in hearings that sought to eradicate Communism without due process or ...

The Crucible opened in 1952, and was considered an attack on the anti-Communist McCarthyism then raging in the United States. Miller himself was brought before Congress in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate.

2020年10月23日 · The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 realist play, is based on the historical events of the 1692 Salem witch hunts. Although partially fictionalised, it depicts the very real consequences of false accusations based on blind religious faith, as Miller displays the dangers of such baseless rumours.

2024年10月8日 · The Crucible was often banned in the 1950s because the play is an allegorical criticism of the US government's actions during McCarthyism. At the time, it was accused of being pro-communist and...

2020年4月1日 · The Crucible as a Political Allegory. In his classic drama The Crucible, Arthur Miller chronicles the horror of the Salem witch trials, an embarrassing episode of colonial America’s history. At first reading, one might only view Miller’s work as a vivid account of the tragedy of theocracy in America’s late seventeenth century.

In The Crucible, religion causes conflict because the Puritan theocracy in Salem leads to extreme, literal interpretations of the Bible, resulting in irrational actions and accusations of ...

For The Crucible, despite its current implications, is a self-contained play about a terrible period in American history. Silly accusations of witchcraft by some mischievous girls in Puritan...

2024年5月18日 · The play “The Crucible” is bases on the historical event of the witch trials in Salem. Miller lights on the discovery of some teenage girls dancing in the woods in attempt to conjuring spirits. He highlights the point that rather than having severe punishment, the girls accused other individuals of practicing witchcraft.