But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.
Arthur Miller Harold Bloom. H. Hale, John enquiry into the nature of witchcraft, 50–52, 57–58 Hall, David, 81 Harris, Jed, 60–61 Hathorne, Judge (The Crucible) evil power of, 8, 18, 38, 44, 46 religious sensibility, 8 and the trial, ...
"The 1953 premiere of The Crucible confirmed Arthur Miller's reputation as one of America's most important and serious playwrights as it underscored the earlier success of Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning...
Now a major film from 20th Century Fox This is the first-ever adaptation of Arthur Miller's twentieth century classic for the big screen.
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history, " Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction...
The great play The Crucible exposed the paranoia and suspicion that permeated American society during the Cold War. This collection of essays by Miller reveals the author's thinking, personal peril and despair at that crucial time.
Proctor " witched her ” into writing it , she says . Proctor is hauled off to jail . By October , 11 witches have gone to the gallows . On the morning John Proctor and seven othersincluding Rebecca Nurse — are to hang , strange rumors ...
G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad’s message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world.
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Lost in Literature, language: English, abstract: ...