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The Crucible
Analytical Essay # 20722
The Crucible
(Arthur Miller). Examines the play on Puritan witch-hunts in the context of the historical need of a community to find scapegoats to express its oppressive bigotry.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) |
5 sources |
1993
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"The subject of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is the Salem witchcraft trials, and Miller uses the historical trials as a way of commenting on the nature of official oppression and bigotry as directed at a specific group in society. Miller's play was produced during the McCarthy era and was intended to comment directly on the "witch-hunts" of our own time as McCarthy and his cohorts ferreted out Communists everywhere as a way of promoting their own careers rather than the truth. The witchcraft in the play is built on historical evidence from the period as to the rationale offered by the Puritans for the witch hunt, historical analysis which has offered its own assessment of why the witch hunts developed and what purposes they served, and links with contemporary witch hunts to show how these processes and patterns of thought persist and continue to cause injustice.."More papers on The Crucible:
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