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The Crucible Written by Arthur Miller Character Sketch It was with ardent horror that the prehistoric man first witnessed a solar eclipse---the sun swallowed by the predator moon until all light ceased and darkness fell on to the land. We, the more enlightened descendants, have also suffered eclipses. One such eclipse was the darkness of evil that fell upon Salem in 1692, when many men and women were accused of compacting with the Devil. These charges …

…nature by revealing these characters to our face and forcing us to watch as they warp their values and ideals to uphold the acceptance of this behavior. As The Crucible is read, people are forced to see how wrong it is to place the value material things over the price of a human's life; and by knowing this, hopefully people will start to discover these aspects within themselves, and will gain the courage to change.