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The Crucible was a play that was first premiered on Broadway January 22, 1953 and was written by Arthur Miller. The story consists of the Salem Witch Trials which was inspired by a combination of the Puritans immigration and the theology of Calvinism. Calvinists believed in total depravity, predestination, limited atonement, and theocracy, or a society controlled by God. With this, came the belief that Satan was alive and well, recruiting people that were known as witches and warlocks. Overall this era produced confusion and chaos causing a society to internally tear itself apart and lose lives over witchcraft that science can't even prove today.