... point that no matter what Kazan's feelings were about communism, he might have exposed the threat in ways other than testifying to an organization that ruined many careers and lives. Arthur Miller said of it that Kazan, "in his human weakness had been forced to humiliate himself."" The consequence of blacklisting and the fear generated by HUAC was that there was a shift ... Noon could be regarded as a continuation of the concern in On the Waterfront. Hadleyville has been cleaned of the un-American oppressors: Will Kane and the townspeople fought against Frank miller and the corrupt vill...

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... their universe. In a vain attempt to explain what befell them, the Puritans built up "such personifications [and] marvelous interpretations"32 as to reveal their own morbid fascination with the unnatural. Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature of the Puritans. They believe that the forest was "the Devil's last preserve."33 Hence, when the Salem minister, Reverend Parris ... so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name for the Devil."44 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne commits adultery ...

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• Grade Level: High School