Religious leaders were powerful members of society.People were expected to go to church and observe the Sabbath.They believed in the supreme power of God and were frightened by the devil.The Puritans left England after disputing the authority of the King, claiming that the head of the church was Christ not the King.In 1692 the majority of residents in Salem ( the setting of The Crucible )were Puritans.Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives Committee on Un -American Activities Committee in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.Many people, including intellectuals and celebrities, were arraigned before the court, ostracized and condemned.Many people in America were frightened by communism post WW2.Senator Joseph McCarthy gained popularity by claiming there was a communist threat from Russia.Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory of the Soviet Union during the Russian Revolution.Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, which tells about the strange customs of made-up countries, but he was really criticizing things about his own country, the UK.
It is often used as a way of criticizing things or people where it would not be possible to do so directly. People have to use their imagination to understand what it is trying to say. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism.Today it is studied all around the world because of its exploration of justice and its reflections on 1950’s America.It is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place during 16.His daughter, Rebecca Miller, is married to Daniel Day Lewis, who starred in the film version of ‘The Crucible’(1996). First wife Mary Slattery was his college sweetheart.The son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City, died 2002.
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