How Arthur Miller's The Crucible Critiques Authority and Power

This analytical essay on Arthur Miller's The Crucible considers the theme of authority. The student notes concerns about what happens when authority is placed in the wrong hands, or executed for personal reasons, drawing connections to the McCarthyism that inspired the play.

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"This draft is a good start. You have your main claims and pieces of evidence down on the page, and your organization is logical and presents the information so the reader can follow "where" they are in the essay's overall structure.

At the granular level, however, the ideas are more difficult to follow. Your engagement with the text and ideas really comes through in the way you discuss the themes and characters, so I believe these clarity issues are a matter of how the ideas are being expressed at the level of language, and not difficultly with Miller's text itself. As you move forward, I recommend a focus on sentence structure, word choice, and direct statements. For example, para. 4 begins, "I believe the true source of authority... is the fact that they couldn't make their own judgements..."; this is pretty confusing (i.e., "the source is the fact"). Use targeted revisions to make this claim--and others--more precise and clear."

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