(if you're writing a paper, copying this verbatim is plagiarism)
It's a criticism about mass hysteria and mob mentality. One person gets scared and everyone else jumps on board. Along with the fact that it's the people scared of being fingered that start placing the blame on other people to keep from being accused themselves.
to use crucible tongs you grab the ends and put the other ends around the crucible firmly so it does not slip and pick up
The events in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" are used by him to mirror the events in America of the time. At the time it was written, a crazy senator named Joseph McCarthy used fear to sway the Americans to persecute and arrest certain people for "communism" without any proof at all. They could be famous actors or actresses, random men and women, anything, and, without having done anything wrong, would get arrested for Communism. In the play, two crazy kids decide to run a plot where they use the town of Salem's common fear of witchcraft to accuse everyone in the town of witchcraft with no proof, in an event known as the "Salem Witch Trials".
He wanted to use a very well-known episode from history (the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts) to warn people that something similar was happening in 1950s America. This passage is from the Wikipedia entry for 'McCarthyism', which you should read if you can find the time:-"The 1953 Arthur_Millerplay The_Crucibleused the Salem_witch_trialsas a metaphor for McCarthyism, suggesting that the process of McCarthyism-style persecution can occur at any time or place. The play focused heavily on the fact that once accused, a person would have little chance of exoneration, given the irrational and circular reasoning of both the courts and the public. Miller would later write: "The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding images of common experiences in the fifties."Answers.com"
So she wouldn't die
Use the whole witchcraft scandal to try to get more land
Gold is melted in a crucible.
to use crucible tongs you grab the ends and put the other ends around the crucible firmly so it does not slip and pick up
My criticism of your sentence is that you misspelled "criticism." (I intend this as the answer - it's a sentence using the word)
It was the wicked witch which practiced witchcraft.
a crucible and cover
ya its part of it. In some of the branches of Paganism you can and do find people who use witchcraft as part of their spiritual path, however it is a personal choice and not all use it. To use an old mathematical formula... All Witchcraft is Pagan, but not all Paganism is Witchcraft.
A crucible is used to contain chemical compounds when heated to extremely high temperatures.
Witchcraft is one of the most misunderstood and maligned spiritual paths in the world today.
It is a group of religions. It is not "used".
Witchcraft is a way of life. It is a religion (or, rather, a group of religions) and magick. One form is Wicca.
The student raised the test tube above the stand clamp with crucible tongs.
Yes they did