Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is a drama based upon the 1960s Massachusetts witchcraft trials. ... The fact that the girls were practicing witchcraft throws the town into hysteria. ... The appalling part of the play is that girls, who were actually trying to practice witchcraft, were the ones making the accusations. ... This short dialogue shows that anyone that was accused of witchcraft had two choices, both with ill consequences. ... again, "The Crucible straddles two different worlds to make one, but it is not history in the usual sense of the word, but the moral, political and psy...

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