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This is the first 1,000 characters of 7925 words (31.7 pages) in the essay titled The Crucible booknotes ^^^^^^^^^^ARTHUR MILLER: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMESIn Salem, Massachusetts, a dozen teen-age girls and a black slave woman are caught dancing in the woods around a bubbling cauldron. Today, you wouldn t even use the word caught. You might think these girls were strange, but you d hardly call the cops on them. But it s 1692, and Salem isn t just an ordinary small town; it s a religious community of the strictest kind. The people and their laws are as harsh as the Massachusetts winter. When two of the girls pass out from fright and can t be revived, the others find themselves in serious trouble. Women who dance with the Devil are witches; and witches, when they are caught, are hanged. To get themselves out of their predicament, the girls try to spread the blame around. But the blame-spreading gets out of hand, and before long the whole town is in a panic, everyone accusing everyone else of witchcraft. Nineteen people will be hanged before the madness is stopped. Well, you say, people were superstitious then. Nothing like that could happen today. Maybe so, but in the early 1950s, at the time The Crucible was written, a similar kind of hunt was taking place, not for witches, but for Communists. Today it bears the harmless-sounding name of the McCarthy Hearings on Un-American Activities, but for the people who got caught up in it--some of them our parents and grandparents--this witch-hunt was anything but harmless. in fact, to the playwright Arthur Miller, the McCarthy Hearin... |
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Keywords: teen age girls, mccarthy hearings, playwright arthur miller, crucible, witches, salem massachusetts, hanged, blame, witch hunt, resemblance, call the cops, dance with the devil, slave woman, serious trouble, black slave, philbrick, booknotes, religious community, predicament