The Crucible Research
Articles and Book Research
`Why I wrote The Crucible` - Arthur Miller
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'Are you Now or Were You Ever?'
KEY POINTS and USEFUL QUOTES - The idea was to destroy all ideas associated with socialism and communism - 'The Death of a Salesmen' was another play that Arthur Miller wrote. It had gone from being a masterpiece to being a theory or belief. - The crucible was an attempt to make life real as he thought previously that life was more of a metaphor. - There were many people who were very talented but were forced to leave USA e.g. Charlie Chaplin - 'The word socialism was all but taboo. Words had forgotten fearsome' - University students did not rent rooms that were run by the housing cooperative because they were afraid of being labelled communist. The New McCarthyism
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