een able to talk of the Salem witch trials and discuss the structure of the play, ...but I have always struggled to lift the plays issues into a contemporary context to get my students to feel at a visceral level how this drama concerns us just as much as it did those people who were looking for witches 300 years ago. (32-33)This is Arthur Millers goal. He doesnt want people to forget that what happened in Salem in 1692 and what happened in West Virginia in 1950 can always occur at any given time. The only way to stop thing like that from happening again is to change the view of society. We should not have a mentality of saving ourselves first, but of trying to save others first, even if it may be at our own expense. ...
