The Crucible: Characters
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The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller that was first produced in 1953,
is based on the true story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Miller wrote the
play to parallel the situations in the mid-twentieth century of Alger Hiss,
Owen Latimore, Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, and Senator McCarthy, if onl ....
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.... own behavior. Many of the accusers have meddled in witchcraft
themselves, and are therefore doubly to be distrusted. (Warshow 116) The court
convicts the victims on the most absurd testimony, and the reader has to wonder
how the judges and the townspeople could let such a charade continue.
The leading character of the play is John Proctor, a man who often
serves as the only voice of reason in the play. He had an affair with Abigail
Williams, who later charges his wife with witchcraft. Pro ....
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