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Play Review for The Crucible
Fall semester US History
Mr. Morris
The Crucible
What is a crucible? A crucible is a vessel in which metal is heated to a high temperature and melted for the purposes of casting. It can also refer, metaphorically, to a time in history when great political, social, and cultural changes are in force, where society is seemingly being melted down and recast into a new mold. In the late 1600s a new mold was made in an attempt to purify the world. The town of Salem did not know what an effect it had unleashed. It had unleashed something like the Red Scare.
Upon reading the play The Crucible, I realized how history repeats itself. Later on in the 1950s, we had a time period where there was a mass hysteria of McCarthyism. McCarthy blamed even the U...