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What does the setting of 'The Crucible' symbolize?

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The play is, as you presumably know, a thinly disguised attack on Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt against Communism and above all Communists in America in the late 1940s and 1950s. For McCarthyites there were 'Reds under beds' in apparently unlikely places. (See: McCarthyism - Wikipedia). read more

In most science classes a crucible would be used to test how pure or good a certain substance is for an experiment, etc. The plays title alone symbolizes the entire plot of the play, considering how the story takes place during a time of great chaos and hysteria in the community. read more

The Crucible by Arthur Miller falls under the category of historical fiction. It is based on actual events. The author used dramatic license in combining characters and events in order to lessen the number of characters and the setting needed to produce the play. read more

Traditionally ( in religious beliefs of that time) view as a symbol of SATAN Dep. Governor Danforth Leads the investigations himself and trials on witchcraft in the village. read more

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