/lit/ - Literature

>>6118544
>ignorant and proud of it

>>6100770

>>6029839
>your mom xDD

My prof is having us write an essay on the Crucible and I'm having a hard time coming up with examples. The prompt is "why is Salem, Massachusetts an appropriate setting for the play by analyzing how the setting serves Miller's dramatic and thematic goals"

>talk about how miller wanted to show similarities between the salem witch hunt and the McCarthy trials

I would but the prompt also states that "miller had plenty of historical periods to choose as a basis of his play: trials for sorcery, heresy, and witchcraft had been going on for centuries in other countries, and the judicial methods used were not far different from those in the Crucible, so why did he choose salem specifically?"