The+Crucible

Title: The Crucible Author: Arthur Miller 	# of book : 152 Genre: Play About Arthur Miller -	He is mostly known as the writer who developed Shakespeare’s tragedy in to modern tragedy and he married Marilyn Monroe in 1956. -	He was born in Manhattan, New York city in 1915 under poor family. -	He graduated Abraham Lincoln High School in 1932. -	He went to University of Michigan. -	In 1944 Miller wrote The Man Who Had All the Luck, which won the Theater Guild's National Award

-	He wrote Death of a Salesman in 1949, which won Pulitzer Prize for Drama. -	He wrote The Crucible in 1953. Summary The book starts with girls accusing people of witch craft. They bring up the witch trial to avoid the punishments for their sinful behavior. Some of accused people again accuse someone else to save their life but some of them do not. And the court killed them who do not confess and accuse someone else of having contacts with the devil.

Symbol In the crucible, witch trial that girls bring up in the beginning, in order to avoid their punishment is a symbol of the paranoia about communism that pervaded America in the 1950s. At that time, people in the states were afraid of communists as same as feeling about the court, witch trial of people in Salem.

Interesting passage Sarah Good: “Oh, is it you, Marshal! I thought sure you be the devil comin’ for us. Could I have a sip of cider for me goin’-away?” She says this passage in the prison right before the death.

Text to self As same as girls accused people for themselves in the beginning, I had done something bad in order to get out of the punishment. I lied. Therefore, I could sympathize with the girls, even though I knew it is wrong.

If you read this book, you will get a chance to look back over your life. So I strongly recommend this book to you.