The Play Crucible and Novel 1984 - Comparing the ways in which the two authors express the Themes of Authority, Power, Repression and Rebellion
Title: The Play Crucible and Novel 1984 - Comparing the ways in which the two authors express the Themes of Authority, Power, Repression and Rebellion
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 2590 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Play Crucible and Novel 1984 - Comparing the ways in which the two authors express the Themes of Authority, Power, Repression and Rebellion
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 2590 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Play Crucible is a fictional re-call of events in the American history surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Miller's parable of the Mc Carthy trials of the 1950s, John Proctor's agonising struggle with guilt emphasises the restrictive nature of the Puritan society. The play explored the fate of citizens when the law of church and state was manipulated for personal gains and individuals end up …showed first 75 words of 2590 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2590 total…a person learns from his or her mistakes in life. The language used in the Crucible gives us the ability to feel that it was happening while we were there as it was set out as a play. Made it feel like it was more real. 1984 gives an example of the life of a person where he has no choice of free will instead of making us feel that it was happening there and then.