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Was Tituba hanged in the crucible? How long did the crucible take to film? How old was Winona Ryder in The Crucible? These aspects offer a sense of the brooding nature of this production. Perhaps one of the most insightful criticisms which should inform any future production has little to do with this particular venture, but with the nature of the story in general. Any modern retelling of this story must take into account the very real reality that some of the judgments rendered by the court in The Crucible are merely ludicrous.

Whether a modern production seeks to play off of the guffaws from the audience as they even resort to laughter among such ridiculous decisions or whether the production seeks to transcend the modern perception of the play and create a new world that strikes the audience as unexpected and horrifying must be given attention.

A conceptual idea which seeks to emulate the terror of Salem, Massachusetts would follow the intention of the play more closely, even if it strayed from the aspects of the play which seem foreign to a modern audience today. The Crucible remains hauntingly relevant today, particularly amidst the current political climate of power and lies, and the revival reminds dramaturges how a changing American psyche should be considered when staging this play today.

In all the troubled history of Salem, was there ever an event like this? How did the young girls, so carefully protected, slip from their homes? How did they come to be so uninhibited, in a Puritan society, that they could dance naked together? In a movie that will be about false accusations of witchcraft, this is an ominous beginning; if it looks like witchcraft, sounds like witchcraft and smells like witchcraft, then can it possibly be an innocent frolic of high-spirited young teenagers?

Miller's play is about religious hysteria fanned by repressed and denied sexual lust. During the course of the action there will be an outbreak of accusations of witchcraft--all of them false, most of them inspired either by sexual revenge or misguided holy ecstasy. When the play was first produced, it was easily decoded as an allegory about the anti-communist frenzy of the McCarthy period. Today, ironically, we have come full circle; we are no longer paranoid about communists, but we are once again paranoid about Satan-worship.

Would Satanism die out altogether if not for the zeal of its opponents in publicizing it? She is one of the naked moonlight dancers, and is furious because she was rejected by a repentant Proctor, and dismissed by Proctor's wife Elizabeth Joan Allen. After being witnessed in the midnight revels by the Rev. Parris Bruce Davison and charged with unholy behavior, she counters with accusations against Proctor. The Bible and the minister's interpretation of the Bible determined what was considered socially acceptable behavior.

The Puritans had no tolerance for inappropriate or unacceptable behavior and punished individuals publicly and severely if they transgressed. Miller captures the intolerance and religious fanaticism of the period and effectively incorporates them into the play. Reading about the Salem witch trials and the paranoid frenzy going on at the time is one thing, but witnessing the trials first hand is quite another experience.

Miller permits the audience to do just that by transforming the faceless names from history into living, breathing characters with desires, emotions, and freewill. Miller did make adjustments to the ages, backgrounds, and occupations of several of the individuals mentioned in the historical records, however.

For example, he lowers the age gap between John Proctor and Abigail Williams from sixty and eleven, respectively, to thirty-five and seventeen, enabling the plot line of an affair between the two. Proctor and his wife Elizabeth ran an inn as well as a farm, but Miller eliminates this detail.

Proctor's friend Giles Corey was actually pressed to death a month after Proctor's execution; however, Miller juxtaposes his death and Proctor's. Finally, Miller chose to omit the fact that Proctor had a son who was also tortured during the witch trials because he refused to confess to witchcraft. Although no one can know for certain what the actual individuals thought, felt, or believed, Miller's incorporation of motive into the play's characters provides his audience with a realistic scenario that is both believable and applicable to society.

For example, when the play was first produced during the 's, as McCarthyism submerged America in paranoia and fear, audiences could relate to the plot because Americans were turning in their friends so they would not be labeled as Communists. Although today's society may not be engaged in so-called "witch hunts," stories of an individual attempting to reestablish a relationship with a former lover by eliminating what he or she perceives to be the only obstacle — the person currently involved in a relationship with the former lover — are not uncommon.

This classic love triangle appears repeatedly in literature, not to mention the supermarket tabloids. Miller's exploration of the human psyche and behavior makes the play an enduring masterpiece, even though McCarthyism has faded into history. On one hand Miller addresses a particularly dark period in American history — a time in which society believed the Devil walked the streets of Salem and could become manifest in anyone, even a close neighbor or, worse yet, a family member.

On the other hand, Miller moves beyond a discussion of witchcraft and what really happened in Salem to explore human motivation and subsequent behavior.