Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Beware, Goody Proctor - cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion the very crown of holy war I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. He’s too certain that the devil is in Salem. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.Mister, I have myself examined Tituba, Sarah Good, and numerous others that have confessed in dealing with the Devil.
is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, "Political opposition. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. 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. "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts.
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