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[quote=nqxau]because he had innaprorpriate relations with that girl and then she had to wear the red A on her shirt
that hap[pens all the time in every day life and it ios a modern tradgedy that people wou8ld have to wear the color red[/quote]

You're thinking of The Scarlet Letter. Crucible is about the Salem Witch Trials.

I'll give you a basic overview to help you get started.

It's a tragedy in the sense that unfair accusations are resulting in innocent people getting killed. Proctor, Paris, and Rebecca Nurse all suffered internally on whether to choose the path that was "right" (telling the truth of not being a witch) or best served their intentions of staying alive by lying. It's modern because all the people in the story are just your average ordinary Joes, not royalty. Ironically, it was Miller who conned that tragedies can happen to people with less wealth.

Proctor would be a tragic hero since he stayed true to his faith of God, friends, and family even with the consequence of death looming over him. Yeah, he could have just lied and lived the rest of his life like most of the people did yet he told the truth, which resulted in his death.

[quote=MistFTW]Proctor's not a tragic hero; he's an idiot for hooking up with Abigail. To answer your first question, The Crucible is not a modern tragedy. It's more of a story on how stupid people can get.[/quote]

[b]Tragic hero[/b]
A privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering. Sophocles' Oedipus is an example.
As @DrHye said, don't try to answer when you don't know what a tragic hero means. (That is in the literary sense)

OT: Actually, it is a somewhat modern tragedy. These events that Arthur Miller (the author of the Crucible) alluded to was based on what was happening during that time. Do you remember the Red Scare during the 1940's-1950's? (When everyone was suspected as being a communist and put in trial even though a LOT of them were innocent.) Joseph McCarthy put many communists on trial because people in the United States thought that they were gonna do some crazy stuff because they were still under the Cold War. (It wasn't really a War though. Nothing really happened. More like a nuclear arms race, but that's it. That's why many Americans feared the commies.) And it was also during that time that Truman passed his doctrine in order to contain communism. However, McCarthy took it too far.
I learned this in Theatre.

You can also relate this to terrorism if you want a more modern approach. A lot of Arabic/Middle Eastern people are suspected of being a terrorist and are being put on trial/searched/accused of doing nothing wrong. However, I think it's best to talk about the Red Scare. That was Miller's intention in the first place.

I will not explain John Proctor for you because you should be able to do that research on your own. Just follow the example of what a Tragic Hero is, in the [i]literary[/i] term.

EDIT: aww man, the above poster beat me too it. ;o; and I reedited this stupid post like 10billion times.

1. crucible: witchcraft=mccarthyism, everyone just accusing one another of a witch/communist

Books great so far, gotta finish for ap test

[quote=MistFTW]Proctor's not a tragic hero; he's an idiot for hooking up with Abigail. To answer your first question, The Crucible is not a modern tragedy. It's more of a story on how stupid people can get.[/quote]

If you don't know what a tragic hero is, just don't answer the question

Proctor's not a tragic hero; he's an idiot for hooking up with Abigail. To answer your first question, The Crucible is not a modern tragedy. It's more of a story on how stupid people can get.

The Crucible is NOT a modern tragedy. A modern tragedy would be something like "America's youth".
He's a tragic hero because he dies at the end despite being a hero.

[b]BECAUSE IT IS MY NAMEEEEE![/b]

sparknotes will help you

isnt the crucible an analogy to ww2/McCarthyism?