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Miller’s account of the “Salem Witch Trials” in colonial Massachusetts between
1692–93, is an allegorical play which points to the climate of hysteria
surrounding McCarthyism in the 1950s.
The Crucible is a heavy, cheerless play,
principally about, honour, power and its abuses. When Miller was called to
testify before the “Un-American Activities Commission” in 1956, he was
sentenced to a year in gaol for contempt of Congress, for refusing to name
names. The conviction was eventually over-turned on appeal.
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