Towns from New York to Savannah participate in this outrageous behavior, and when it comes to films depicting such grand dissipation, one of the best is Nicholas Hytner's "The Crucible." Based on Arthur Miller's play of the same name, "The Crucible" is set in the small settler town of Salem, Massachusetts in the early 1690's, a town with many young ladies looking for love. ... Many of the people targeted in McCarthy's hunt were celebrities based solely on the reason that they spend a lot of time outside the country; Miller topped this exclusive list and in response he wrote...

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The Crucible Arthur Miller's 1950 play The Crucible uses literary elements to mirror the Mc Carthy Ear. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a "witch hunt" play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. ... Miller's 1950 play The Crucible expresses a variety of themes. ... In The Crucible reputation is a fear of guilt by association becomes particularly pernicious. ...

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The author, Arthur Miller, wrote The Crucible to show people McCarthyism was going far, to show the similarities in the time periods, and to help our nation use facts instead of fear. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to show people McCarthyism was getting taken too far. ... Miller wrote The Crucible to show the similarities in the time periods. Miller purposely made The Crucible to clearly illustrate similarities of the 1950s. ... Miller wrote The Crucible to help our nation use fact instead of fear when judging Communism in America. ...

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The Crucible: Cause & Effect One of the most awful chapters in human history, is oppression. Parallels between The Crucible, and more modern examples of oppression such as the McCarthy hearings of the 1950's, are appalling. ... Arthur Millers' The Crucible depicts the Salem witch trials during the end of the seventeenth century. ... The Crucible is a terribly accurate portrayal of the accusations of communism in the United States. ... "The Crucible" is quite clearly a response to the political paranoia of the "Red Scare". ...

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As a victim of McCarthy's accusations, author, Arthur Miller, wrote The Crucible to put the trials in a different perspective. ... The title compares the cartoon to the literal witch hunt presented in are Arthur Miller's, The Crucible The theme of hysteria can also be seen in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. ... The officials were made to parallel the judges in The Crucible. ... The Crucible depicts similar themes of paranoia as the political cartoons. ... Throughout The Crucible, the authority and trustworthiness of the accusers is never doubted, in the same way as the committee ...

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Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is a drama based upon the 1960s Massachusetts witchcraft trials. ... In The Crucible, a similar event occurred. ... In third act of The Crucible, Giles Corey brings evidence to the court about his wife's innocence. ... Arthur Miller almost fell victim to the HUAC and blacklisting after the release of The Crucible. ... These quotes explain the essence of The Crucible and McCarthyism. ...

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In the Crucible, a lot of the townspeople were wrongfully accused of witchcraft. ... McCarthyism is linked to the Crucible in the fact that both use unfair accusations to expose disloyalty or subversion. ... Finally McCarthyism and the Crucible are both based on lies and false accusations in order to put someone down while pulling yourself up into their spot....

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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. ... McCarthy was then seen as brash and temperamental, with little evidence to back up any of his claims, and then his following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. ... The play The ...

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In The Crucible, paranoia also led to suspicion of neighbors and friends for use of witchcraft and accused others for suspicion of witchcraft. ... This was like the girls who had danced in the forest in The Crucible because they faked that they had seen those who were accused make a contract with the Devil. ... This was like the court in The Crucible where McCarthy is similar to judge Danforth in which he also wanted to do away with witchcraft within Salem and executed those who denied or did not confess for witchcraft. ...

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Arthur Miller, author of the play "The Crucible," was one of the many Hollywood writers who faced public scrutiny because of alleged ties to the communist movement in America. "The Crucible," a play about the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century, was an allegory for the communist trials led by McCarthy. ...

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If people in the world did not bother to seek out the truth, then the whole world would be in chaos. Everybody has lie at least once in his or her life. If there is so many liars, then how can we know what is the truth and wouldn't others be affected by your lies. That is why for our society to be fair and equal to everyone, they must seek out the truth. Those that want to learn the truth are the ones that want to win over injustice. ...

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