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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.
They are similiar enough to make the comparison easy, but they are also different enough that Miller couldn't get in trouble for writing against a senator who was against communism.
The American town famous for the Witch Trials (called the Salem Witch Trials) is Salem, Massachusetts.
Puritans and Witches: Conflict and Compromise at Salem
No. How could a town founded 60 years after the trials ended have had them? The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Salem witch trials began in 1692.
Why did miller choose the which trials as the basis for the crucible
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, he compared the 20th Century "hunt for communists" to that of the Salem Witch Trials.
That would be "The Crucible". Written in 1953 by Arthur Miller.
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.
The main difference is that McCarthyism was a real political period in the United States when Senator McCarthy tried to scare the people that Communism was leaking into our government whereas The Crucible is a play about the Salem 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.
The Crucible tells about the Salem panic using facts that make the panic into a close parallel with McCarthyism.
They are similiar enough to make the comparison easy, but they are also different enough that Miller couldn't get in trouble for writing against a senator who was against communism.
The Salem trials. The whole town goes insane by blaming each other of witchcraft.
The judge presiding over the Salem witch trials along with Deputy Governor Danforth.
They are easy to compare to McCarthyism and Miller was trying to make a point about McCarthyism. The Trials are also different enough that he could not get in trouble for writing about them to write about a senator.