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THE CRUCIBLE

The twentieth century has seen many artists, writers and playwrights criticize the frailities of society and human nature. Often, these satires and allegories show man's weakness to the pressures of society and how this weakness eventually leads to his defeat. One such writer is George Orwell, a famous political satirist who prophecizes about the future of humanity using past events for his analysis. Arthur Miller on the other hand, uses present day events to criticize post-war America - two of his most famous works being Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Death of a Salesman is a criticism of the American Dream and The Crucible is an allegory of McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s. Although both plays offer insight into post-war American society, Death of a Salesman prevails in depicting the way Americans dealt with its pressures...