The Crucible
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The 1953 premiere of confirmed Arthur Miller’s reputation as one of America’s most important and serious playwrights. The drama is a historical play of 17th century colonial America and a parable about the communist witch hunts in the United States of the 1950s. The events which surround Mil ....
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.... the unknown hung over the population. The setting of helps add to the conflict and sets up a fertile environment for associated guilt (Weales 58).
Examples of associated guilt as presented in are the hangings and convictions of nineteen men and women and two dogs in Salem in 1692. Their bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all. The trial of these people are perhaps the most disconcerting single episode in American history. The trials were started when several girls accused memb ....
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