The Crucible
identify the OVERALL SETTING (place+time) and the importance of the following settings: - courtroom. -Outside the jail + Gallows.
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Time of setting- around 1692
Place - Salem, a small town in colonial Massachusetts
Courtroom- where much of the hypocrisy takes place. The courtroom symbolizes the everything that is wrong with these witch hunts. It seeks to legitimize punishment with no grounds.
Jail- Well, it would be a sad place where the innocent languish.
Gallows- Again representing punishment without any truth.