The Crucible By: Arthur Miller Arthur Miller is the author of The Crucible play. The Crucible is a story of the Salem witch trials, which took place in Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600’s. The trials were a major cause for a lot of innocent peoples death. Some of the people in the town found they had control over the others life and took it to an extent. The meaning of crucible can stand for …showed first 75 words of 851 total…

…showed last 75 words of 851 total…name? I have given you my soul; leave my name!” Proctors test left him only with two paths. Proctor may lie and loose the good name that he has built up for himself and his family or, tell the truth and live in nothing but lies for all of his life. In Proctors final decision he tells the truth and dies for what he thinks is right, not for what he knows is a lie.