The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and then focuses upon how The Crucible may have been set in the sixteenth century and featured Salem witchcraft trials but symbolically represented what was happening in the United States of the 1950s with the communist witch hunts conducted by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.