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Who or what was responsible For the Salem Witch trials?
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Ben Newman. Who or what was responsible For the Salem Witch trials? Arthur Miller one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century was persecuted in the 1950's during the McCarthy trials suspected of attending communist meetings. America was against the idea of communism and saw it as a threat to their country anyone thought to be going to these secret meetings were persecuted and in some cases imprisoned. Miller wrote the play 'The Crucible' to show the parallels between two different societies i.e. the hysteria caused by the supposed witchcraft taking place in Salem and the hysteria caused by suspected communism which swept America. The play based around a small puritan town called Salem. In which girls, caught dancing in the woods lie their way out of a 'whipping' by blaming other members off the town of witchery. This was a very religious town if anyone did anything that was...
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