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The Crucible

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 States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."

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Title of ebook: The Crucible
ISBN: 9781101033173
parent-ISBN: 9780142437339
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages: 176
Published: 03-2003
Released online for download: 01-03-2006
Author of eBook: Miller, Arthur

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Title: The Crucible
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	Doesn't need to be seen on the stage 01/26/2010
Reviewer: A viewer from Sydney, Australia
This play can be read without being staged. The themes of jealousy and revenge are easy to grasp from the page. The enormous power of peer-pressure is as scary now as it was for those accused of being witches.
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