The Crucible | Compare and Contrast
- 1600s: Puritan settlers in New England, familiar with persecution, create tightly-knit communities where church and state are closely linked in the running of the society. In The Crucible Miller described the state which they created as "a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it up to destruction by material or ideological enemies."
1953: Joseph Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union since 1928, dies at the age of 73. Hostilities with...
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