The Crucible
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TOPIC : A - was written in the early 1950s as an exploration of events which took place in Massachusetts in 1692. What does the play have to offer an audience in Perth, Western Australia in 1996?
is a play which brings to our attention many timeless issues. The nature of good and evil, power and ....
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.... committed one sin, then it was assumed that they were committing many others.
They were condemned because they did not follow the exact ‘rules’ in their society which ‘defined’ who was good and who was evil. The people who followed the ‘rules’ were in turn deemed ‘good’, the nature of their true character being basically irrelevant. This is relevant to our time because history has shown us that it has happened before, for example, McCarthyist Am ....
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