Arthur Miller essay
Office of the VP Communications - Keeping alumni and friends connected to UM. Arthur Miller's ode to UM. Written by. Frederic Alan Maxwell. Playwright Arthur Miller, '38, is perhaps best known as the artist who transformed American theater with such seminal works as Death of a Salesman (1949) and Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a play that tells a partially fictionalized and dramatized story about the witch from Salem. Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony In The Crucible, a group of girls go dancing in the woods late at night with a Barbadian slave Tituba. As they dance, Reverend Parris catches them. I remember reading Arthur Miller's essay "The University of Michigan" in an anthology dedicated to my freshman English class. It captured many of my first impressions of college, Ann Arbor, and the excitement of starting a new life. Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' is a compelling critique of the dark and tangled web of society, politics and morality. Set during the Salem Witch Trials, this play serves as a vivid reflection of the oppressive nature of McCarthyism in America. Although rooted in a different period, Miller's piece uses the rigid and.