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THE CRUCIBLE
The witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the early sixteen hundreds
was a time of uneasiness and suspicion. Anyone could easily turn in his or
her neighbor on the ground of witchcraft. Someone could merely say their
neighbor's spirit had attacked them during the night, which no man can
prove. Nevertheless, as a God-fearing community, they could not think of
denying the evidence, b ....
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.... from it, as an allegory to show
people the insanity of the McCarthy hearings. He wrote it as an allegory
so that, if tried by McCarthy, he could say, "it's just a play about the
witch trials in Salem. How do you get this communist idea from it?" The
story illustrates how people react to mass hysteria, created by a person
or group of people desiring fame, as people did during the McCarthy
hearings.
Arthur Miller, acting as a great visionary, warned us th ....
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