Arthur Miller's 'Weight of Truth' in The Crucible - 6 views

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  #1 Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11

   

  In Stephen Marino Literary Criticism about Arthur's Miller novel The Crucible, Marino highlights the importance of Miller's use of the word "weight" at crucial moments of The Crucible, claiming that "the word supports one of the play's crucial themes. Marino purpose of writing the essay was to trace the repetition "weight" in The Crucible and reveals how the word supports one of the play's crucial themes: how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society. Marino's essay remains consistent as it analyzes the effect word "weight" and its connection to the theme. The constancy remains during the book because Marino uses logical facts from the book and from other scholars to support his argument, Throughout his studies of the book and other scholars works Marino examines that Miller also uses other constant words to portray other theme. The textual evidence in the essay is abundant as it show the reader the amount of times the word "weight" has been used in different forms to squeeze the truth out of the characters in the drama. Marino came to the conclusion that the Miller's use of "weight" in The Crucible does highlight the overall theme of how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society. Marino is able to conclude this because of all the different denotations for the word "weight" which is all leading up the truth and if whether the truth is beneficial to society of not. Marino also examines the way one interpret weight in the play whether it has to do with law, religion or authority. Marino states that "the play is based on the clashes of truth between those characters who profess to speak it, those who profess it, those who live it and those who die for it." (Marino, 488). So the truth is trying to be forced out of these souls but one could only get truth if the character falls in the right category.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In Stephen Marino Literary Criticism about Arthur's Miller novel The Crucible, Marino highlights the importance of Miller's use of the word "weight" at crucial moments of The Crucible, claiming that "the word supports one of the play's crucial themes. Marino purpose of writing the essay was to trace the repetition "weight" in The Crucible and reveals how the word supports one of the play's crucial themes: how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society. Marino's essay remains consistent as it analyzes the effect word "weight" and its connection to the theme. The constancy remains during the book because Marino uses logical facts from the book and from other scholars to support his argument, Throughout his studies of the book and other scholars works Marino examines that Miller also uses other constant words to portray other theme. The textual evidence in the essay is abundant as it show the reader the amount of times the word "weight" has been used in different forms to squeeze the truth out of the characters in the drama. Marino came to the conclusion that the Miller's use of "weight" in The Crucible does highlight the overall theme of how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society. Marino is able to conclude this because of all the different denotations for the word "weight" which is all leading up the truth and if whether the truth is beneficial to society of not. Marino also examines the way one interpret weight in the play whether it has to do with law, religion or authority. Marino states that "the play is based on the clashes of truth between those characters who profess to speak it, those who profess it, those who live it and those who die for it." (Marino, 488). So the truth is trying to be forced out of these souls but one could only get truth if the character falls in the right category.</div>

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