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The Crucible is not an allegory, although many mistake it to be for obvious reasons. The Crucible was written, in part, because Arthur Miller (the playwright) was angered at his friend during The Red Scare. His friend, Kahn, reported a list of government names who were taking inside steps towards communism. Miller, upset at his good friends false accusations, wrote The Crucible shortly after.However, the Crucible's characters are almost historically accurate, three dimensional characters, two aspects rarely found in allegory. Crucible is often read to learn about the destructive nature of man and what reputation and greed can do to and/or for a person.
Poverty and the Great Depression.
Mercy Lewis was a real person in the Salem witch trials. Later, Arthur Miller used her as a character in the play "the crucible". Not much is widely known about Mercy Lewis as a real person. In the book however Mercy Lewis is the Putnam's servant. She is described as being a "fat, sly, merciless girl of eighteen". The fact that she is merciless is ironic given her name. At the beginning of the play, Mercy suggests beating Betty, "because I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute". At the end of the play, shamed, Mercy leaves Salem with Abigail.
Abigail Williams is the protagonist of THE CRUCIBLE. She is the one who gets the ball rolling about the whole witchcraft and witch hunting. She is the person who pushes the story forward to a climax and even a resolution.
In the physical device called a "crucible", a small pot is heated, and golden items can be melted. Gold itself melts at a relatively low temperature, while alloying metals and impurities remain solid, and will float to the surface of the liquid gold. This allows the jeweler to skim off the dross, leaving only the pure gold, which when cooled could be fashioned into jewelry. In literature, there are several books and stories that use the crucible as a metaphor for human desires and feelings. By "heating" all of the actors to an emotional feverish pitch, the characters will reveal their flaws and inner demons, allowing the true nature of the person to be revealed.
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The Crucible is not an allegory, although many mistake it to be for obvious reasons. The Crucible was written, in part, because Arthur Miller (the playwright) was angered at his friend during The Red Scare. His friend, Kahn, reported a list of government names who were taking inside steps towards communism. Miller, upset at his good friends false accusations, wrote The Crucible shortly after.However, the Crucible's characters are almost historically accurate, three dimensional characters, two aspects rarely found in allegory. Crucible is often read to learn about the destructive nature of man and what reputation and greed can do to and/or for a person.
Abigail Williams was a real person but also a main character in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. She accused three women of witchcraft.
Poverty and the Great Depression.
Bridget Bishop, who was tried and convicted on June 2nd, 1692.
Mercy Lewis was a real person in the Salem witch trials. Later, Arthur Miller used her as a character in the play "the crucible". Not much is widely known about Mercy Lewis as a real person. In the book however Mercy Lewis is the Putnam's servant. She is described as being a "fat, sly, merciless girl of eighteen". The fact that she is merciless is ironic given her name. At the beginning of the play, Mercy suggests beating Betty, "because I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute". At the end of the play, shamed, Mercy leaves Salem with Abigail.
Abigail Williams is the protagonist of THE CRUCIBLE. She is the one who gets the ball rolling about the whole witchcraft and witch hunting. She is the person who pushes the story forward to a climax and even a resolution.
In the physical device called a "crucible", a small pot is heated, and golden items can be melted. Gold itself melts at a relatively low temperature, while alloying metals and impurities remain solid, and will float to the surface of the liquid gold. This allows the jeweler to skim off the dross, leaving only the pure gold, which when cooled could be fashioned into jewelry. In literature, there are several books and stories that use the crucible as a metaphor for human desires and feelings. By "heating" all of the actors to an emotional feverish pitch, the characters will reveal their flaws and inner demons, allowing the true nature of the person to be revealed.
In the physical device called a "crucible", a small pot is heated, and golden items can be melted. Gold itself melts at a relatively low temperature, while alloying metals and impurities remain solid, and will float to the surface of the liquid gold. This allows the jeweler to skim off the dross, leaving only the pure gold, which when cooled could be fashioned into jewelry. In literature, there are several books and stories that use the crucible as a metaphor for human desires and feelings. By "heating" all of the actors to an emotional feverish pitch, the characters will reveal their flaws and inner demons, allowing the true nature of the person to be revealed.
Your mom was the one.
A miller grinds wheat into flour.
Bewitched is a word which relates to the activities of witchcraft and spells. Accordingly, the word means to have a spell or charm placed on an individual which gives the witch or wizard control of that person. Many people during the Salem Witch Trials claimed to be bewitched by women.