In this act I will be examining the dramatic importance of Act 3.
Act 3 takes place in court. In acts 1 and 2 the puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts had been turned upside down by the accusations made by a group of young girls who consistently claim that certain people in the village had been involved in witchcraft. However unknown to some of the villagers this is merely a ploy to conceal their guilt as it was them who were conjuring spirits in the woods.
I think it is a key scene as it shows many of the dramatic devices and the decisions made affect so many peoples fate.
Set during the Salem witch trials at the end of the 17th century, the crucible is written as a critique of the extremes and evils of McCarthyism. The play offers an insight of a society consumed by paranoia, in which the problem of doing good in the face of evil becomes a matter of life and death. The Puritans were Protestant dissenters of the state-run Church of England, who fled to America to......
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