The 17 th century was a time when a great many issues that had arisen since the Reformation came to ahead: religion, politics, power and freedom were questioned as never before. ... His father had left Roman Catholicism and Milton was raised Protest and, with a heavy tendency toward Puritanism. ... As a puritan, however, he believed that the Bible was the answer and the guide to all. ... On the one hand, Satan can be related to the monarchs who ruled during the 17 th century. ... This place in completely different to the turbulent periods of the English Civil War, Cromwell's Republic an...

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His plays are staged and studied by students to understand American life in Russia, P and, Iceland, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Czech Republic, and China to name a few (Griffin xi). ... Miller used the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th century, to make an indirect, but assertive comment upon McCarthyism in American life (Richard Watt, Jr. 536). ... Thousands of people who refused to answer q stions and confess were executed during the seventeenth century. ... The Puritans believed that the Devil was continually enticing man. ... The Puritans believed that a person became a witch by entering i...

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