1. The Crucible and McCarthyism
In the play "The Crucible," by Arthur Miller, the language is used to intensify the struggle between individual morality and social law. Set in the puritanical 'black and white' society of Salem, Massachusetts during the witch trials in the1600s, there is the idea that there is a serious danger in handing over too much power to a society with a mob-mentality. ... The color black is used traditionally to represent evil, taking the form of sin and the Devil in 'The Crucible.' ... Had they refused to support the trials, the courts would have not have had any real power in ...
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