The Reverend John Hale embodies the growing awareness of the illegality and immorality of the Salem witch trials.
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Have a little read: ... Kit Carrau 5th January 2002 The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Reverend John Hale embodies the growing awareness of the illegality and immorality of the Salem witch trials. The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, and is a study in the mass hysteria which led to the 1692 Salem Witchcraft trials. The trials then led to the execution of twenty people. Arthur Miller was born on 17th October 1915 in New York and wrote The Crucible in 1953. This was in the middle of the McCarthy Witch Hunt in America. McCarthyism was an anti-communist crusade in America that started in the early 1950's and led by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. The Crucible was meant to be seen as a political parable to this. This is because the McCarthy trials were very similar to the 1692 Salem Witch trials. In the Crucible, the Reverend John Hale embodies the growing awareness of the illegality
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