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WEBThe Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
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WEBOct 30, 2015 · First produced on Broadway on January 22, 1953, the play was partly a response to the panic caused by irrational fear of Communism during the Cold War which resulted in the hearings by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. 1 In Miller's play and screenplay, however, it is a lovelorn teenager, spurned by …
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WEBThe Crucible is a fictionalized account of the Salem Witch trials of 1692, in which 19 innocent men and women were killed by hanging and hundreds convicted before the panic subsided. Yet while The Crucible depicts one witch-hunt, it was written during another.
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WEBA list of important facts about Arthur Miller's The Crucible, including setting, climax, protagonists, and antagonists.
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WEBThe Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
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WEBJul 9, 2019 · Written in the early 1950s, Arthur Miller’s play "The Crucible" takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, during the 1692 Salem witch trials. This was a time when paranoia, hysteria, and deceit gripped the Puritan towns of New England.
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WEBThe Crucible. Author: Arthur Miller. Genre: Historical fiction. Publication Date: 1953. Overview. A play staged in four parts, The Crucible (1953) is one of Arthur Miller’s primary works alongside Death of a Salesman (1949) and All My Sons (1947).
The Crucible: Genre - SparkNotes
WEBGreek tragedies told stories of noble characters whose flaws, or deficits, caused them to compound one bad decision after the other, making their deaths at the end of the plays inevitable. In The Crucible, John Proctor is in most ways an upstanding character, honest and highly moral.
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WEBMar 25, 2003 · 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...
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WEBMar 25, 2003 · First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil.