The town portrays good and evil as a dichotomy, white or black. ... Miller revealed to us that Proctor had confessed "God help me I lusted," unbeknownst to Elizabeth and she mistakenly covered up the affair that contributed to Proctors arrest. ... Like Elizabeth, the reader wrestles with the conflict of whether she will confess or not, intensified when she makes the seemingly terrible decision to "protect" him. ... In Act two, Elizabeth talking about Abigail states "and I thought she were a saint, to hear her and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Isr...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the United States in 1954 under the iron-mouthed Senator John McCarthy. ... Black listing, which was a list that had prevented the people on it to acquire jobs because of the potential communist threat, made many artists whom lost their jobs were unable to acquire any more work; lives were ruined. ... McCarthy was then seen as brash and te...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate