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    Arthur Miller's play The Crucible explores his concept of modern tragedy through the story of John Proctor. Miller rejects many Aristotelian ideas of tragedy, such as the notion that only kings can be tragic heroes. Instead, Miller argues that ordinary people like the farmer Proctor are just as capable of evoking tragic emotions. Proctor's refusal to falsely confess to witchcraft stems from his desire to maintain his personal dignity and integrity, even at the cost of his life, demonstrating tragedy as the consequence of man's compulsion to evaluate himself rightly. The flaws that lead to tragedy in the play come not from Proctor as an individual, but from the rigid, paranoid society of Salem itself.

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    Arthur Miller's play The Crucible explores his concept of modern tragedy through the story of John Proctor. Miller rejects many Aristotelian ideas of tragedy, such as the notion that only kings can be tragic heroes. Instead, Miller argues that ordinary people like the farmer Proctor are just as capable of evoking tragic emotions. Proctor's refusal to falsely confess to witchcraft stems from his desire to maintain his personal dignity and integrity, even at the cost of his life, demonstrating tragedy as the consequence of man's compulsion to evaluate himself rightly. The flaws that lead to tragedy in the play come not from Proctor as an individual, but from the rigid, paranoid society of Salem itself.

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    Millers Tragic Vision

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    Arthur Miller's play The Crucible explores his concept of modern tragedy through the story of John Proctor. Miller rejects many Aristotelian ideas of tragedy, such as the notion that only kings can be tragic heroes. Instead, Miller argues that ordinary people like the farmer Proctor are just as capable of evoking tragic emotions. Proctor's refusal to falsely confess to witchcraft stems from his desire to maintain his personal dignity and integrity, even at the cost of his life, demonstrating tragedy as the consequence of man's compulsion to evaluate himself rightly. The flaws that lead to tragedy in the play come not from Proctor as an individual, but from the rigid, paranoid society of Salem itself.

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    The crucible

    Arthur miller’s tragic vision


    Tragedy and the common man
    • Arthur miller is modern dramatist and playwright. He is a tragedian too
    but miller never intended his play to be a tragedy on Aristotelian model.
    • Miller has his own concept of tragedy as a modern playwright and he
    described this concept in his brilliant essay tragedy and the common
    man (1949).
    • In this essay, he rejected many Aristotelian concepts about tragedy and
    gave his principles on which tragedy should be based.
    “Common man is as apt a subject for
    tragedy in its highest sense as kings were.”

    Texual evidence:
    • Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties. ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    Tragedy is the consequence of man’s total
    compulsion to evaluate himself justly.
    • Textual evidence:
    • Proctor: I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be
    public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church. God sees my
    name . God knows how blacken my sins are! It is enough! ― Arthur Miller, 
    The Crucible

    • Proctor:  How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul;
    leave me my name! ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    • Proctor tears the paper and crumples it. ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    "Tragedy enlightens and it must"
    • For example when Proctor dies, his death not only evokes great sympathy
    but it impresses the audience with enlightenment and knowledge—
    enlightenment in the sense that how we can defend our dignity when we
    are traped in some dilemma.
    • Miller states that “. . . the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in
    the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need
    be, to secure one thing – his sense of personal dignity.
    “The flaw is not within the individual or
    hero, but within society itself ”

    • For example, in the crucible,


    • Deputy Governor Danforth :Mr. Proctor, you have been notified, have you not?
    I see light in the sky, Mister; let you counsel with your wife, and may God help
    you turn your back on Hell. ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    • Parris: “I see no light of god in him” ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    • Parris: ‘We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such
    corruption in my house.’  ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    tragedy as inherently optimistic.

    Proctor: why must it be written? ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible


    Proctor tears the paper and crumples it. ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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