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Arthur Miller was only one of many thousands of American citizens singled out and condemned by the McCarthy Hearings in the early 1950's, dedicated to ferreting out "communists" in every arena of American public and private life. In "The Crucible," Miller lashes out against "witch hunts," adapting his response in the context of the Salem witch trials of 1692. "Death of a Salesman," perhaps Miller's most renowned work, celebrates "the common man" and the struggle for maintaining human dignity in a society that tends to intimidate and dehumanize.
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