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The Crucible
Title: The Crucible
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1380 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Crucible
Many of literature’s finest works have been a response against a social or political situation. The French Revolution was documented, romantically if not accurately, by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, and Victor Hugo in his masterpiece, Les Miserables. An excellent example of a modern event that inspired a masterpiece of fiction is the McCarthy Witch-Hunts. Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible, in response to what he felt was madness on the part of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The author’s revelations …showed first 85 words of 1380 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1380 total…penned dozens of books with “hidden messages” such as 1984 and Animal Farm. Often, writers resort to writing fiction because it would be unwise and dangerous to voice their opinions literally, and so they veil it in an elegant metaphor. Fiction is the most eloquent and effective method of commentary upon any political or social situation. Literature!
was a successful medium in relying the author’s opinions a century ago, five decades ago, and literature will a successful medium five decades and a century later.
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