The play is a fictionalized version of the trials and tells the story of a group of young Salem women who falsely accuse other villagers of witchcraft. The accusations and ensuing trials push the village into a hysteria which results in the arrest of 200 villagers and the deaths of 19.Inspired by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, focuses on the inconsistencies of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behavior that can result from dark desires and hidden agendas. Miller bases the play on the historical account of the Salem witch trials.accusations heightened the political tensions of the times. Known. as McCarthyism, the paranoid hunt for infiltrators was notoriously. difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom were labeled. communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working.
The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.[1] Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
Explanation: Waverly's mother felt angry because Waverly told her mother to stop bragging about her winning the chess games to random people because Waverly felt emberassed but Waverly's mother took it the wrong way and got angy instead of understanding how her daughter felt.
