[miss marmelstein]

You are so wrong if you believe that Arthur Miller wasn't trying to portray the events of that awful period in 17th century America. He was FASCINATED by the Salem witch trial and spent mucho hours up in Salem reading the transcripts. Of course, every high school kid knows that one of its themes was the McCarthy/Army hearings.

And I have to tell you, those kids were not really witches. There are no witches. And they didn't dance around in the wood, either - that was one embellishment of the play. They sat around a fire in winter, bored out of their minds, while Tatiba - that poor woman - told them witchcraft tales. Those tales produced the hysteria that lead them to accuse innocent people of witchcraft.

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Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact & Fiction (or Picky, Picky, Picky...) by Margo Burns - New content added 02/01/04

Why I Wrote The Crucible: An Artist's Answer to Politics By Arthur Miller