... history is demonstrated in his sensitive and passionate writing in Death of a Salesman (Griffin 41). The Crucible (1952) was originally intended to be called Those Familiar Spirits, referring to a spirit that a witch presumably sends out to torment her victims. However, the well area at the bottom of a blast furnace is known as the crucible, it is whe the molten steels collects being entirely broken down due to immense ... Miller's c cept of the tragic hero. Both of them struggling to maintain the image they have of themselves. Miller maintains that this is the prime criterion of traged...

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