... justice system of Salem. John Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties. He did not have to be a partisan of any faction in the town, but there was evidence in the books that he could not tolerate hypocrites. This is perhaps the one thing that Proctor was afraid of becoming. ... alcohol liver damage, and died three years later, just 48 years old (196). The McCarthy era came to be known as a troubled time in our history. Many historians wonder what cause this mass hysteria. Growing Soviet nuclear capabilities and the paranoia about the government could have contributed, however, there w...

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... justice system of Salem. John Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties. He did not have to be a partisan of any faction in the town, but there was evidence in the books that he could not tolerate hypocrites. This is perhaps the one thing that Proctor was afraid of becoming. ... with McCarthyism. In The Crucible, it is simple to find events that occurred similar to the Communist witch hunts. One of the heroes of the play, Giles Corey, is crushed to death, thereby circumventing the system, where he would have become forfeit and his family left destitute. This is ... other time periods...

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... who accused innocent people of the village of being under the influence of the devil and harming them with spells of witchcraft. How would a town so concerned with religion react to such crazy accusations? Arthur Miller describes such reactions to these in The Crucible. In this story Miller describes ... victims-, are in accusing them otherwise innocent people of witchcraft, if witchcraft is even the cause of the girls' hysteria. Arthur Miller writes the play to demonstrate that human nature is actually good regardless of how easily humans can be influenced by the spread of evil. Miller ...

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... a witch and then the court would actually forgive the accused if they blamed their accusations on another individual. This was the main idea of the play. In this play a group of young girls are caught dancing in the woods and are then accused of being witches. These girls then blame other people in order ... towards Abigail. He is married to a good woman (Elizabeth Proctor). Maybe he's trying to make things all right. Elizabeth Proctor is John Proctor's wife. Our first impression of her comes from Abigail who obviously doesn't like her because she is jealous of the marriage between John...

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