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cible? Webster and his book the dictionary defines a ‘crucible’ as, “A container in which metals are heated, involving a change. A severe test or trial.” Author Miller in his play, uses the title ’The Crucible’ as an analogy fo ....

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.... It shows how important a part religion plays in the community. Seeing as people’s life styles revolved around working and praying. If people were not working or farming their lands, they are praying. On holidays they pray, there are hardly any moments of recreation or ‘fun.’ The people of Salem are deeply religious and to drift on to the side of the devil is the most serious ‘sin’ or ‘crime’ imaginable in the community. Just as it was a sin drift on to the side of the devil in the time of the crucible, it was the same to drift on to the side of communism in the 1950’s, when Arthur Miller wrote th ....