Monday, September 19, 2011

Arthur Miller, "Are you now or were you ever?" Questions

1. Miller attempted to make life real again by showing that things get repeated in history. The McCarthy trials are just like the Salem Witch trials. People being wrongfully accused for something they did not do and no evidence that they did any such thing. The Crucible shows that yeah these events happening now happened years ago. we are repeating a terrible part in history.

2. Miller's criticism was that the political left wing was not acknowledging the truth. Paul Robeson testimony was so remarkable because he expressed the idealistic canon of his convictions. Robeson stated that faith in socialism was a cure for racism.

3. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller evokes how people deal with conformity and individual freedom.

4. I think Miller means is that people forget the past mistakes in history so they end up repeating and repeating things that they could of avoided if they just looked back. It is vital for them to remember so we do not make anymore tragic mistakes over something small and silly and then later realize that it could have been avoided.

2 comments:

  1. Wow, your vocabulary is ridiculous times six. I think that your right about how sometimes humans tend to repeat the stupid things they do in history. It seems that we would just learn the first time.

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  2. so true,it is vital to avoid simple mistakes that are avoidable

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