His plays are staged and studied by students to understand American life in Russia, P and, Iceland, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Czech Republic, and China to name a few (Griffin xi). ... Miller used the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th century, to make an indirect, but assertive comment upon McCarthyism in American life (Richard Watt, Jr. 536). ... Thousands of people who refused to answer q stions and confess were executed during the seventeenth century. ... The Puritans believed that the Devil was continually enticing man. ... The Puritans believed that a person became a witch by entering i...

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