According to the play's Overture, The Crucible playwright, Arthur Miller, set his political allegory in Salem Massachusetts, in the spring
of the year 1692. However, we know that Miller wrote the play during
the McCarthy era of the 1950's. What makes the play an allegory is
the political climate shared by both time periods; a climate of
interrogation, prosecution, and persecution based on hearsay
(accusations without real evidence) and the accused being considered
guilty until proven innocent.
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1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.