Critical Analysis "The Crucible"
History tends to repeat itself. People forget the lessons that should have been learned from past mistakes, no matter how dire the consequences had been. The 1990 film "Guilty by Suspicion" which recreates the story of the "Blacklist Era" in Hollywood in the 1950's when accusations of communist activities rocked the creative community has many comparisons that can be drawn between those involved in the blacklisting Guilty by Suspicion, and the characters from Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," who played important roles in the Salem witch trials in the late 1600's. The character, John Proctor, a farmer in The Crucible, similar to David Merrill in Guilty by Suspicion. Both John and David tell the truth, neither of them will confess to something they did not do, and they both want to keep their names.
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