Personal Journey Through the Crucible

Personal Journey through the Crucible

Dramatization, an action in which language is seen as a mode of symbolic act rather than a mode of knowledge, was my primary drawback. I have always been a quite person and performing on stage has been my frail point, but nonetheless I chose to perform on stage casing my fears inside and performing in Authur Miller's The Crucible. As I commenced my drive, with frustration and aggravation, I began to make it my aim to advance in my shortcoming, dramatization. Ultimately we reached a point where success was within our reach, at the night of the performance. This brought me satisfaction and fulfillment for my endeavor in the play.

In developing the plot and progression of our play our class evaluated the use of literary techniques that were used with in the play while reading. What we found was that a very momentous technique was used in which the content of the play dealt with fictional tellings of historical figures and events. This technique was first employed by Bertolt Brecht's historicisation in his poem "Speech to Danish working-class actors on the art of observation". Brecht said 'historicization,'for the actor, constitutes a fundamental interpretative attitude. Throught out our reading process we felt we neeeded to keep this theory in our mind in order to interpertate what each of the charcters in the play felt and for this it was inmportant for us to understand the nature of each of the characters.

In the first reading of the Crucible, I was able to understand the theocratic nature of the society, moral laws and state laws to which the characters were bound. Since the play was essentially written in response to Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee's crusade against supposed communist sympathizers, we could easily see some of the themes, such as intolerance, hysteria and reputation