Plan Crucible
How does Miller present ideas about witch-hunts in The Crucible?
Plan
Intro
In the Crucible, Arthur Miller writes using the allegory to the events and actions of ex-American senator Joseph Mcarthy. The ‘house of un-american activities committee’ was established in late 1938, and with the leadership of Mcarthy, persecuted and discriminated all any communist in America. People used the accusation because there was no real way of proving if the accused was communist. It was one word against the other. This is what Miller uses as he saw these events as a type of ‘political witch-hunt’; and therefore relates their meaning to his scene of 1600’s Salem.
‘Another suggestion to explain the systematic campaign against Rebecca, and inferentially Francis, is the land war he fought with his neighbours, one of whom was a Putnam.’
May 16th, 2016 at 12:23 pm
To develop this, I woud focus on three specific characters that suffer from Hale’s (and Hathorne’s) scrutiny – how does this develop through the rest of the play?
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