Arthur Miller Essays and Research Papers

Fear can lead to a lot of things, however in humans it usually ends with something bad. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible shows this in multiple occasions. The play’s characters choices and final decisions gives examples of how fear can steer peoples actions into dishonesty and wrong judgement. Through emotion. Fearful of gaining a bad…

The Crucible is a play based on the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. During this period, accusations led to trials and convictions for witchcraft, and twenty people were hanged. Not being honest caused Abigail and her friends to ruin the lives and families of others, such as the Proctors. Her whole goal was…

Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” both embody the idea that masculinity is presented as a significant factor in society and is explored in different ways. The question ‘what is it to be a ‘man’?’ Has travelled through generations and is still in this day and…

The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller is based on a true story in a small village called Salem. During 1692, the witch trials began. Throughout this paper I will be talking about the affair between two characters named John Proctor and Abigail Williams. There is another character by the name of Elizabeth Proctor…

Plot In, The Death of a Salesman a middle-aged man, named Willy, lives with his wife Linda in a small humble home surrounded by edifices of apartment buildings. One night after Willy returns from a hard day at work he discovers his two adult sons, Biff and Happy are visiting. Willy has always had high…

During the 1930’s, the great depression became a threating worldwide economic depression, which began in the United States. It began in 1929 and ended in 1939. In Death Of A Salesman it takes on larger issues going on in America like the economic struggle, the ‘American Dream’ and the strive for it, basically the risk…

Through many instances in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, there is evidence of Simmel’s ideas in his essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life” interlinking the social aspects of modern life to Willy Loman’s demise in attempting to fulfill the American Dream. In the turn of the 20th century, an individual was challenged by…

The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a story that takes place in Salem Massachusetts and 1762 about the townspeople there and their paranoia of witches and Witchcraft. John Proctor is one of the main characters in the story. Proctor’s the one who wants to show everyone that witchcraft is not real. Abigail another…

The reality in Death of a Salesman is not simply embodied in the physicality of the content, but is also carried through the values the story harbors. The status of salesman is exalted by Willy, to the extent of reverence. Willy claims that ‘selling was the greatest career that one could ever want’ (Miller 63),…

In the play The Crucible, deceit is often present but what motivated Arthur Miller to include it that much? The Crucible is a story full of lies and accusations, what effect does this have on the play? By including deceit, it adds a certain twist to the story that can be acquired in no other…