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The Crucible is a fictional story about the Salem Witch Panic. Just don't take any facts from the Crucible and believe them, its fiction after all.

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Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible?

The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller in which he mangled facts and theories about the trials to create an allegory to McCarthyism in the 1950s.


Why did the Salem witch trials began in The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

The Salem witch trials began in 1692.


What did The Crucible by Arthur Miller have to do with the Salem witches?

During the trials, it meant absolutely nothing. The Crucible didn't exist. The Crucible, written in the 1950s, is very loosely based on the events of the trials and the author, Arthur Miller, used that loose basis to criticize the McCarthyists in the Senate.


What was the name of the play about the Salem witch trials?

That would be "The Crucible". Written in 1953 by Arthur Miller.


Why did Miller choose the Salem Witch Trials as the basis for The Crucible?

Why did miller choose the which trials as the basis for the crucible


Why did Arthur miller compare the hearings to the Salem witch hunt?

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, he compared the 20th Century "hunt for communists" to that of the Salem Witch Trials.


Why did arthur miller name his book crucible?

Arthur Miller named his play "The Crucible" because a crucible is a vessel used for melting or purifying metals, reflecting the intense heat and pressure the characters experience in the play. Metaphorically, the title represents the intense trials and tests the characters face during the Salem witch trials.


Who is hathorne in The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

The judge presiding over the Salem witch trials along with Deputy Governor Danforth.


What is the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller about?

The Salem trials. The whole town goes insane by blaming each other of witchcraft.


What is a similarity between the Salem witchcraft trials and The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

The Crucible tells about the Salem panic using facts that make the panic into a close parallel with McCarthyism.


What did arthur think about most when he was writing The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

Arthur Miller thought about how people can be accused of things without proof. He compared the Salem Witch Trials to himself and others being accused of being communist traitors.


Arthur Miller's dramatic portrayal of Salem leading up to the witch trials?

Miller's play is titled "The Crucible." Is not a factual history of the event, but a mangling of facts and theories about the trials to create an allegory to 1950s McCarthyism.