... perpetuating the hysteria just as people had admitted to being witches in order to escape torture until they confess. The liberal entertainment industry, in which Miller worked, was one of the chief targets of these so-called witch hunts, as their opponents termed them. Those who were revealed, falsely or legitimately, as Communists, and those who refused to incriminate their friends, ... they can no longer continue and present a false confession, after which they are killed for witchcraft. With these parallels in mind, it is clear that The Crucible was written with comparing the thought...

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