How Effective Is The End Of Act Iii As An Ending To This Act And As A Preparation For The Rest Of The Play?
The play ‘The Crucible' was written by Arthur Miller in 1953, but set in 1629's Salem. It was written as "an act of desperation" by Miller during the McCarthy period, where Americans were accusing fellow Americans of having pro communist beliefs. Miller and his friends were later accused and Miller was found guilty. The Salem trials and McCarthyism were both based on witch hunts (the Salem trials both figuratively and literally speaking), people were blaming each other of crimes, mostly for the sake of saving themselves, and in both situations, mainly because of propaganda, everything spiraled out of control. Miller used the play ‘The Crucible' to express his views on McCarthyism in an allegorical like way.
The crucible starts when, after dancing in the woods of Salem, two children take sick, one being the minister of Salem's, Rev. Parris's daughter. Being a theocracy, speculation in the village arouses about the causes of the children's illness after the towns doctor......
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