The Play Crucible is a fictional re-call of events in the American history surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Miller's parable of the Mc Carthy trials of the 1950s, John Proctor's agonising struggle with guilt emphasises the restrictive nature of the Puritan society. ... The difference in the Crucible is that it was set in a different time and with a different type of system controlling the society. Both had strict laws that were to be followed without question. 1984 was a totalitarian state that was tightly controlled, w...

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