"The Crucible"by Arthur Miller
Brief revision of key things in the Crucible
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- Created on: 16-05-13 18:16
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- "The Crucible"by Arthur Miller
- themes
- integrity
- bigotry
- manipulation
- truth
- guilt
- Purification
- Mass hysteria
- Lust
- empowerment
- Reputation
- Intolerance
- Quotes
- "While I speak God's law, I will not crack it's voice with whimpering"
- "A sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time but against his own vision of modern conduct
- "It may be that God damns a liar less than that who throws away his life for pride"
- "This girl is murder! she must be ripped out of the world!"
- "We danced, that's all. Let you speak a word or the edge of a word about the other things to anyone , I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring with you a pointy reckoning that will shudder you!"
- "You forget nothin' and forgive nothin'"
- "He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him now"
- Purification process
- Each character has a purification event
- for characters like John he comes through his purification event
- although his death causes his purification
- for characters like John he comes through his purification event
- Hale also goes through purification
- Although Hale succumbs to the fires of the crucible
- Hale leaves salem a broken, morally bankrupt character
- Although Hale succumbs to the fires of the crucible
- Each character has a purification event
- Parallels to the McCarthy trials
- Characters in the play are symbolic of people in the McCarthy trials
- John is symbolic of innocent people accused by McCarthy
- Mary Warren is symbolic of everyone who witnessed injustice and was to scared to do anything about it
- Danforth is symbolic of the courts in the 50's and of course of McCarthy himself
- Characters in the play are symbolic of people in the McCarthy trials
- themes
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