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Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their communities and their friends. Miller explores the handy scapegoat that an accusation of witchcraft can be: a father can dismiss his daughter's behavior, a landowner can acquire still more land, a serving girl can attract attention to herself, and emotions can be displaced onto other people. Miller fully explores the power of an accusing figure.
 
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Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Beware of Children Bearing Big Mouths

Date of Review:  Dec 16, 2006
The Bottom Line: I would recommend The Crucible because it constantly kept me on edge.
Review: The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is an amazing read on infamous acts that took place in Salem, Mass. circa 1692. As you were probably taught in grade school, the Salem Witch Trials killed nineteen innocent women, as well as a couple of men, who were...
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interesting storyline, many twists,...
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perhaps too many characters
 
 
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Authors Arthur Miller
Fiction Genre Drama
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  Martin, Robert A.: "'The Crucible' has endured beyond the immediate events of its own time. If it was originally seen as a political allegory, it is presently seen by contemporary audiences almost entirely as a distinguished American play by an equally distinguished American playwright."

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Publisher: Penguin Group USA (March 01, 2003)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.3 lbs.
ISBN: 9780142437339
 
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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth- century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United ...
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