1. Arthur Miller
According to Raymond Williams, The Crucible is a powerfully successful dramatization of the notorious witch trials of Salem. ... 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). ... However, Miller was interested in the witch trials before he opposed McCarthyism however. ... His play makes clea the facts from the past that sinners and guilty people were mistaken for witches in Salem (Bu*censored* 128 -129). ... Witch-hunting and the evil Salem trials in The Crucible was a work of social...
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