he most obvious reason Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible (or anything else, really) is because he had a story to tell. Without that, he would not have been inspired to write. It is true, however, that what inspired him to write this particular story is quite personal.
As a Jewish man, Miller was a political advocate against the inequalities of race in America, and he was vocal in his support of labor and the unions. Because he was such an outspoken critic in these two areas, he was a prime target for Senator Joseph McCarthy and others who were on a mission to rid the country of Communism.
Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities because of his connections to these issues but refused to condemn any of his friends. This experience, a rather blind and sweeping condemnation of anything even remotely connected to Communism without sufficient (or any) evidence, is what prompted him to write about the Salem Witch trials.
In a later interview, Miller said the following:
It would probably never have occurred to me to write a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692 had I not seen some astonishing correspondences with that calamity in the America of the late 40s and early 50s. My basic need was to respond to a phenomenon which, with only small exaggeration, one could say paralysed a whole generation and in a short time dried up the habits of trust and toleration in public discourse.
However, the more he began to study the tragic events in Salem, the more he understood that McCarthy's hunt for Communists was nothing compared to the fanaticism which reigned in Salem in the 1690s.
Answer:
Among the option given on the question the correct answer is option D.
To show Americans the inappropriateness of their behavior
Explanation: Frederick Douglass was an social reformer, writer, abolitionist and a statesmen.He became one of the national figure in the New York against slavery as he also escaped from slavery. He wrote many autobiography on the slavery and his life. He depicted his purpose in his writings. His purpose was to abolish he slavery.
However he used biblical allusion to advance on his purpose. Because there many terms in the Bible related to the slavery. Moreover, most of his audience was christian and non believers who are also familiar to Bible.
He compared the Church bell as the bell ring in the slave auction market.However he didn't wanted to say that religion has created slavery. His purpose was to use the biblical term to show the Americans the inappropriateness of their behavior. Most of the slave owner goes to the Church regularly but they did not know how to behave with slaves. They behaved like slaves were less than human.
So Douglass used the Biblical allusion To show Americans the inappropriateness of their behavior.
From ”who do what has to be done, again and again” line, readers can infer that Marge Piercy, the poet who wrote “To Be of Use,” views hard work as an activity that is worthwhile. This line is from the second verse of "To Be of Use" poem. This verse described that people become addicted to hard work because of the benefit that hard work gives<span>.</span>
The statement best describes the tone of the poems "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron and An excerpt from "To Helen" by Edgar Allan Poe is B)Both poems are complimentary, paying tribute to loved ones. The tone for both is very romantic, soft and calm.
