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The crucible was a play written by the author Arthur Miller. This Play was written in 1952, and It was a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that happened in Salem  Massachusetts. The Witch Trials were a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned. This caused an outbreak in fear and caused many friends and neighbors to turn on each other. Some events that happened in the trials are still unexplained till this day.