Crucible 11
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The Crucible is a great play about the Salem Witch trials which history has never forgotten. What is a crucible? The dictionary has defined it as a severely difficult test or experience, and indeed the play does have a difficult test in the plot of its story. The author, Arthur Miller chose a g ....
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In the drama, the witch hunt put many people to the test of faith characterized by confession to being possessed to be a devil or denying it thus being hanged in front the town’s people. This is the crucible brought up in the story, where a man, John Proctor, sets out to prove Abigail and her followers to be frauds. John Proctor is a good man with a hidden past of lust with Abigail. His wife, Goody Proctor knows of this sin and never forgives him for it until the end of the story wh ....
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Word count: 587
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)