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The Crucible - Online Term Paper

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, because to deny the existence of Evil is to deny the
existence of Goodness, which is God.

The most important scene in the play was act two, scene three, where
John Proctor is able to talk with his wife, Elizabeth, one last time. He
decides that he will "confess" to the crime of witchcraft, thereby
avoiding ...

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and using that as a last resort to
make people aware of what was happening. This last stand for
righteousness is an example of proctor's great character and rationale.

Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible, a story about the Salem
witch trials, and the panic resulting 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 that if we did not
become aware of history repeating itself, our society would be in danger.
At the same time, he had to do this in a matter that would not get him
arrested, hence the witch-trial mechanization.

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Added: 3/6/2005 11:46:52 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
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