The Crucible

Through the dramatic play, the Crucible, Arthur Miller presents the audience with many themes. Some examples being the impact of hysteria, conformity versus the freedom of individuality, and the wrongful use of authority. These themes are all eternal issues, which continually re-occur in society throughout time, and therefore can be seen as ‘universal messages’. This essay will discuss these messages, and how Arthur Miller evokes the ‘full force of theatre’ to communicate them.
The setting of the play is an important ‘force of theatre’. Miller’s use of stagecraft plays a major role in expressing the tension, and distraught emotion throughout the drama. The setting of each act is spare and sombre, yet effectively portrays the Puritan lifestyle and contributes to the anxiety of the plot.
Act One is set in a small upstairs bedroom, in the home of Reverend Parris. Like the room, the only window is small and barred, symbolising no escape from the future events, and adding to the over crowded, claustrophobic feeling, of a room



 

 
   
 
  
 
 
 
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Through the characters of the Deputy- Governor Danforth and Reverend Samuel Parris, Miller presents the universal message of the wrongful use of power and the resulting consequences. The hypocrisy and ulterior motives that both these characters posses, evidently contributes to the injustices in the outcomes of the play. Reverend Parris is preoccupied with his salary and blackening his enemy, John Proctor. Ironically he is supposed to be “ ordained, ...” and have “... the light of God...” within him. (page 63). The strong belief in his own righteousness is evident in his claim to Proctor, that any faction which is against him is opposing legitimate authority. (page 35)



Some topics in this essay:
The Crucible, Salem Witch Trials, Fear, John Proctor, Daniel Day Lewis, Salem Massachusetts, Arthur Miller, Hysteria, Drama, Thomas Danforth,

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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS:

The Crucible .... Arthur Miller, a playwright with socialist sympathies, viewed the HUAC hearings as a virtual witch-hunt, inspiring him to pen his play The Crucible. .... (749 3 )

The Crucible and the Holocaust In Arthur Miller's (1995) The Crucible, the author provides a dramatization of the fanaticism and hysteria generated during the Salem witch trials in the .... (765 3 )

The Crucible .... fulfilled in thinking about our relationship than I have been for some time. Miller, A. (1995). The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin. (1097 4 )

Symbols in The Crucible and the Holocaust In Arthur Miller's (1995) The Crucible, the author provides a dramatization of the fanaticism and hysteria generated during the Salem witch trials in the .... (765 3 )

The Crucible & McCarthyism There are three main parallels between McCarthyism and the events portrayed in Miller's (1995) The Crucible. These are: fear, ethnocentric .... (708 3 )

The Crucible: A Recommendation Arthur Miller's (1995) The Crucible is a drama I highly recommend for a number of reasons. .... Miller, A. (1995). The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin. (843 3 )

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