'Is the Crucible a Dystopia?\r'

'In Arthur milling machine’s contactwright, The crucible, the reader is exposed to different examples of what could be considered a dystopian society. A dystopia is a society characterized by human mischance and unhappiness. The characteristics of a dystopian society in com/the-crucible-by-arthur-miller/>The melting pot include spiritual insure and this playwright contains a dystopian protagonist.Throughout The Crucible, the townsfolk in capital of Oregon, Massachusetts be financial support in a theocratic political relation. A theocratic government is a government subject to religious authority. In moth miller’s playwright the court is much affiliated with the church, therefore the characters can be prosecuted if they are approximation to be associated with the Devil. reverend bum Hale believes that â€Å"the Devil is slender” and that â€Å"the marks of his presence are expressed as stone.” This statement files the paranoia of the townspe ople and how they fancy any wrong doing or any unanswered act was the work of the Devil.The Crucible shares characterization tropes with the dystopia genre such as a dystopian protagonist. John varan is a classic Arthur Miller hero, a man who struggles with the incompatibility of his actions with his self-image. He is a member of the Salem society who incessantly feels trapped by the sin he has committed. Proctor also believes that the church of Salem is corrupt in the way they tryout someone to committing witchcraft. When Reverend Hale comes to straits Proctor, Proctor tells him that the accusations are complete hogwash and Hale fires back by stating that solely the people he has questioned have confessed to witchcraft.Proctor thus questions Reverend Hale by asking â€Å"why non, if they must hang for denyin’ it? there are them that will swear to anything onward they’ll hang; have you never thought of that?” Reverend Hale gives Proctor his federal agency that he has thought of that before besides he has a hard eon believing that someone would lie in the name of God. Throughout the story John Proctor does his best to bring the uprightness upfront in the court of Salem, however, in the end he is not believed.Moreover, The Crucible isn’t considered to be a dystopia. The play does share some characteristics of a dystopia notwithstanding it does not fit the requirement of fetching place in the future. The way Arthur Miller frames 1692 Salem, Massachusetts as a dystopia is by showing the reader that the townspeople are living under a theocratic government where the only answer to ambiguous events is witchcraft. Not only can religious oppression and â€Å"naming names” take place to a dystopia-like environment in this play, only if the fact that the citizens live in revere of being persecuted also leads to a dystopian society. For this is the true point of The Crucible; to show the reader of the dystopian characteristics this play comprises of and that not only the future can be interpreted as a dystopia notwithstanding that the people of the past, and even the present, can be living in a dystopian society.\r\n'