![]() Soon everyone is calling each other witches (the penalty for which is death) and no one knows what actually happened. When the town minister’s daughter falls ill after allegedly “dancing” in the forest a group of girls, the town immediately assumes the children were practicing witchcraft. The Crucible is a partially-fictionalized adaptation of the Salem Witch Trials and is meant as an allegory of the McCarthyism of the 50s. I technically did not READ The Crucible I watched a performance on YouTube because I could only get the audiobook and figured I might as well just watch it as a play like it is meant to be viewed anyway. ![]() ![]() This was the first book I was supposed to read in junior year but ending up having to read in the summer because of online school. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence“ My Thoughts In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town’s most basic fears and suspicions and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. ![]() “ Based on historical people and real events, Miller’s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. ![]()
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