Witchcraft In The Crucible

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Dobrev, Alexander 10/6 19.04.2011 In Actual Case The American writer Arthur Miller was born in 1915 in New York, he graduated in the University of Michigan and won the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards with his two plays: "Honours at Dawn" and "No Villain" and the Pulitzer prize with "the Death of Salesman". But indisputably one of his most important book is "The Crucible" written in 1953 during the hysteria the Americans suffered because of believing and mostly accusing each other of being communists. The book has much in common with that time period, Arthur Miller tried to connect the theme of witchcraft with the…show more content…
She was originally from an Arawak village in South America, where she was captured as a child, taken to Barbados as a captive, and sold into slavery... Parris, at the time, was an unmarried merchant, leading to speculation that Tituba may have served as his concubine. Tituba helped maintain the Parris household on a day-to-day basis... Tituba made herself a likely target for witchcraft...". Arthur Miller uses a lot of that data to build Tituba's character "The door opens, and his Negro slave enters, Tituba is in her forties. Parris brought her with him from Barbados, where he spent some years as merchant before entering the ministry. She enters as one does who can no longer bear to be barred from the sight of her beloved, but she is also very frightened because her slave sense has warned her that, as always trouble in this house eventually lands on her back." (8). Most of the information about Tituba is historically true but Arthur Miller adds some ideas like "her slave sense has warned her that, as always trouble in this house eventually lands on her back." which has no real background but help build Miller's play. Arthur Miller creates a story from the plethora court information and next uses the information he has from every individual and adds some information about the individual that he has to use for the story to be accurate and plausible. The interesting thing is that he not only creates and…show more content…
Arthur Millar tries to imply all the facts he has found in the court documents into his play "The Crucible" and manages to do a significant job, he not only managed to get a story out of the documents but then thanks to that story he added enough details to finish with fully developed character which can be changed during the
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