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

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 tha...

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  • Tracing the repetition "weight" in The Crucible reveals how the word supports one of the play's crucial themes: how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society.
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      The thesis of the essay to connect the word "weight: to the theme of the book.
  • 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: how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society."]
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      The purpose of Marino writing this essay was to highlight how the use of the word weight in the crucible highlights the individuals struggle for truth and the conflict with society
  • 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.
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      The play is about who speaks the truth and who does not
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  • Similarly, Miller's thematic use of weight is intimately connected to the conflicts that occur when an individual's struggle to know truth opposes society's understanding of it
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      Society's understanding of the truth is different than that of the individual.
  • Selz argues that truth is at odds with the very people, the judges and ministers, who are supposed to discern it.
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      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      It is hard to recognize the truth.
  • Murray examines how in The Crucible Miller "in a very subtle manner, uses key words to knit together the texture of action and theme." He notes, for example, the recurrent use of the word "soft" in the text.6
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      Another Author notices Millers repetition of words and the connection to the theme in this case "soft" is the word
  • On one level, Parris's use of weight as "importance" or "seriousness" appeals to Abigail on a personal level, since her uncle's ministry and her cousin's life are at stake.
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      The word is used to manipulate the truth out.
  • Parris invokes his ministry in connection with the "weight of truth," the religious connotation is clear.
  • If Abigail felt the weight of religious truth, she would confess to Parris about the abominations performed in the forest, thereby releasing her from the heaviness of falsehood, sin, guilt, and the power of Satan.
  • his mission is equally connected to the same religious "weight of truth"
    • Alan Adjei
      Alan Adjei on 20 Jan 11
       
      Hales mission is to take the "weighted books" and find out the "weight of truth" of witchcraft.
  • In this line, "weighty" possesses all of the figurative connotations of both law and religion. Clearly, the exposure of witches to the community is the work of God and religion, but it is equally the work of the community in its legal entity to dispose of such witchcraft. Thus, the "weight of truth" that Parris uses in all its ramifications and the "weight of authority" that Hale so reverences are both dispensed by the weight of the law.
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