Analysis Of The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The night of January 2, 1953 in the heart of New York many have traveled to see the first premiere of the crucible of who they have heard to be the over-slightly liberal Arthur Miller. The play is not reportage of any kind,” Miller said. “Nobody can write a tragedy and make it reportage. What I was doing was writing a fictional story about an important theme." Words such as these were the very ones that began to make people question the truth in his words. Considering the due date of this play “so happened” to be at the peak of the red scare, Miller further on was known, or rather accused, as a communist sympathizer. However, the more sympathetic of

the critics accepted Miller’s piece as informative work through a piece of american history. Miller makes his political

in march of 1662, an 8-year old girl made history to be the first reported disturbance of this kind. witchcraft was not a minor offense in connecticut at the time, being one of twelve capital crimes.Leviticus 20:27 (“A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death”).could be seen by many as a motto.

For those that experienced the salem witch trials and have heard of them it would seem unimaginable that there was ever normality prior to. Salem was and is made up of mostly puritans and those believing in a more simple way of existing. there was also the belief that no sin should go unpunished making for a very complex “rulebook”. Very conservative in the ways of their daily life, man ruled woman, while women took care of household duties. “old fashioned” to say the least, even for the 1600’s. Education is another value worth mentioning in this case, without a proper education you were seen to have made a choice to refuse the respect of