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To what extent can 'The Crucible' be viewed as a Classical Tragedy?
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... To what extent can 'The Crucible' be viewed as a Classical Tragedy? Arthur Miller was born on October 17th 1915 in New York; he won several awards for plays that he wrote while still at university, and continued writing after his graduation. Miller's play 'The Crucible' was first produced in 1953 during the middle of the McCarthy political 'witch-hunt'. Strong themes shared in each of Miller's works are: the responsibility of each individual to other people, self-knowledge and self-realization. Also, Arthur Miller is intensely concerned with those who are vulnerable to and led astray by false values, 'The Crucible' is no exception to this. 'The Crucible' tells the story of the 1692 Salem witch trials which led to the execution of twenty people. The play is an allegory and uses the story of the 1600s witch trials to speak about the political 'witch hunt' of the 1950s; his accusations of Communism destroyed the
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