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The Crucible
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about the chaos and deceit that occurs under the pressure of a witch-hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. A crucible is an instrument found in science labs that is used to filter out solids from liquid compounds. The book was named after this object because the Salem witch trials ....
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.... anything before they'll hang; have you ever thought of that?" Throughout the chaos of the trials, while hundreds confessed to being witches, John Proctor was persistent in his idea that everyone who confessed was lying in order to avoid getting hanged. It came as no surprise that when his maid, Mary Warren, who participated in the dancing, mentioned that his wife was accused of witchcraft he set out to let the court know that was not true. He persuaded Mary Warren to admit to the court that she had been lying about being possessed by witches and that Abigail Williams had ....
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