Perverted Trajectories of Power-Games in Arthur Miller’s the Crucible
Perverted Trajectories of Power-Games in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Pawan Kumar Sharma(Research scholar)
Dr A S Rao ( Assistant Professor of English)
MITS University, Lakshmangarh, Sikar (Raj.)
Arthur Miller is a well-known name among American playwrights. In the play, The Crucible (1953), he visualises a world immune to all kind of abuses. He wants to see hale and hearty society. In this paper, it has been sought to expose corrupt routes of power, how it is gained and lost. In fact, like Karl Marx, Miller also denegrates class-bound society. He abhors victimised relationships. Of couse, he has taught the lessons of kindness to huminity. In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller has dreamt for the betterment of not only Americans but of whole mankind.
The major plays of Arthur Miller include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View From the Bridge (1955) and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955). Set in the village of Salem Massachusetts in 1692, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play about the seductive nature of power and for pubescent girls that seductiveness is perhaps not unconnected with a confused sexuality. The Crucible has endured beyond the immediate events of its own time. If it was originally seen as a political allegory, it is now seen by the contemporary audiences almost entirely as a distinguished American play by an equally distinguished playwright Arthur Miller. The political questions raised in the play by the playwright make it distinct from other plays. These political questions are valid in a range of social, cultural and historical contexts.
The themes taken by Arthur Miller in his different plays mostly deals with existentially human and are also relevant to the modern audiences in a number of ways. For instance the film production of The Crucible, directed by Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of
Pawan Kumar Sharma(Research scholar)
Dr A S Rao ( Assistant Professor of English)
MITS University, Lakshmangarh, Sikar (Raj.)
Arthur Miller is a well-known name among American playwrights. In the play, The Crucible (1953), he visualises a world immune to all kind of abuses. He wants to see hale and hearty society. In this paper, it has been sought to expose corrupt routes of power, how it is gained and lost. In fact, like Karl Marx, Miller also denegrates class-bound society. He abhors victimised relationships. Of couse, he has taught the lessons of kindness to huminity. In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller has dreamt for the betterment of not only Americans but of whole mankind.
The major plays of Arthur Miller include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View From the Bridge (1955) and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955). Set in the village of Salem Massachusetts in 1692, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play about the seductive nature of power and for pubescent girls that seductiveness is perhaps not unconnected with a confused sexuality. The Crucible has endured beyond the immediate events of its own time. If it was originally seen as a political allegory, it is now seen by the contemporary audiences almost entirely as a distinguished American play by an equally distinguished playwright Arthur Miller. The political questions raised in the play by the playwright make it distinct from other plays. These political questions are valid in a range of social, cultural and historical contexts.
The themes taken by Arthur Miller in his different plays mostly deals with existentially human and are also relevant to the modern audiences in a number of ways. For instance the film production of The Crucible, directed by Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of