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Unit 1: Exploration Notes - The crucible Essay 2: Context 'The Crucible' is a play, written in America during the 1950s, by Arthur Miller. It is based on the true events that happened in the American town of Salem in the 1600s. Many Women and some men were arrested, trialled and imprisoned for alleged witchcraft. Twenty were hanged. However it is also influenced by other events that occurred before and during Arthur Miller's life. For example the anti communist movement that is now known as McCarthyism. The period Miller wrote 'the crucible' was the 1950s this was a time when new beginnings were happening in the USA and most people at that time were in search of the American dream. As James Truslow Adams describes it in his book entitled The Epic of America (1931) "That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man,...

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