The presentation includes the themes and symbols present in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, It includes videos and photos from the movie Crucible starring Winona Ryder.

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2. THE CRUCIBLE
Syeda Fatima Tuz Zahra
“it is an allegory of our times”

4. THEMES
• Mob Hysteria
• Injustice
 Theocratic Values
 Swindle or Die
 Hypocrisy
 Reputation

5. MOB HYSTERIA
• “I have seen too many frightful proofs in court—the Devil is
alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the
accusing finger points!”
Reverend Hale
“We cannot look to superstition
in this. The Devil is precise.”

7. INJUSTICE
• “Mr. Hale, as God have not empowered me like Joshua
to stop this sun from rising, so I cannot withhold from
them the perfection of their punishment.”
Judge Danforth
“I never said my wife were a witch,
Mr. Hale; I only said she were
reading books!”
Giles Corey

8. INJUSTICE
• Do they look like they
were worshipping
antichrist?
• “Fear warped the justice system in
Salem, so justice was corrupted”
Arthur Miller

9. THEOCRATIC VALUES
• Puritanism
• “A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his
filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them
that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and
as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that
this be fraud—God damns our kind especially, and we will
burn, we will burn together!”
John Proctor

10. SWINDLE OR DIE
• Some chose truth over life
• “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust
on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I
have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
John Proctor

12. HYPOCRISY
• Salem’s community is solely
based on Hypocrisy
• “ There are wheels within wheels in this village and
fires within fires”
Goody Putnam
• Characters driving each
other to destruction

13. REPUTATION
• John Proctor
• How integrity
later becomes a
character flaw.
• How his affair
affects his later
decisions
• Self recrimination

14. REPUTATION
• “My name is good in the
village! I will not have my
name soiled! Goody Proctor
is a gossiping liar”
Abigail
“It is not my
soul, John, it is
yours”

15. SYMBOLS
 Crucible Chains
 Abigail Rebecca Nurse
 McCarthyism Poppet
 …
 Dagger

16. CRUCIBLE
• A ceramic or metal
container in which metals
or other substances may
be melted or subjected to
very high temperatures.
• Extreme, Severe test or
trial

18. REBECCA NURSE
• ''There is prodigious danger in the seeking of
loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it.‘’
Rebecca Nurse
• Her fear is completely
justified. If only those
assembled had listened to
her!
• Voice of Warning, Reason

19. POPPET
• “I made a gift for you, Goody
Proctor. I had to sit long hours
in a chair, and passed the time
with sewing”
Mary Warren

20. MCCARTHYISM
• THE Crucible is a play,
which reflects the mass
cultural and political
hysteria produced when
the U.S. government
sought to suppress
Communism and radical
leftist activity in
America.

21. ABIGAIL
• “I want to open myself!...I want the light of God, I want the sweet
love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his
book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with
the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget
Bishop with the Devil!”
Abigail

22. DAGGER
• “"Tonight, when I opened my door to leave my house-
a dagger clattered to the ground. You cannot hang this sort. There is
danger for me. I dare not step outside at night!“
Parris
• People are getting tired of this charade
• They want to end this

23. CHAINS
• Oppression
• “Herrick! Herrick, don’t chain her! He rushes out the
door. From outside: Damn you, man, you will not chain
her! Off with them! I’ll not have it! I will not have her
chained!”
John Proctor

24. MODERNISM
• HE IS ON THE
VERGE OF
MENTAL
BREAKDOWN
• IT’S AN ACT
OF
FRUSTRATIO
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• God is no
longer the ruling
force in Salem
anymore,
INJUSTICE
AND
PURITANS ARE

25. AFTERMATH
• P.S: Don’t ever dance
in the woods

26. ENDING THIS WITH DANTE, BECAUSE HE
IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE RELATABLE