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the theme of the supernatural is a main theme. Have you read the play? maybe these notes on the play might help 
if you look at the context of the book, it was written when the salem witch trials or arthur miller was criticizing that period.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crucible/context.html
if you look at the context of the book, it was written when the salem witch trials or arthur miller was criticizing that period.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crucible/context.html
yeah i know all thta jazz.. but my english teacher just made us watch the movie, and then relate it back to the area of study imaginative journeys. He said its something to do with how the negative imag. journey leads to a journey of the society, and how, although there is suffering, it was ultimately positive. But i still dont see it!! But thank you anyway..
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Hmm... I haven't studied imaginative journeys, but perhaps you want to look at the whole McCarthy-ism/witch hunt thing- people 'imagining' things that aren't really there and having the imaginations of a few people forming the catalyst for the deaths of so many people, also the strict Puritan society just waiting for something to liken itself to "ultimate death" (their purpose for being so 'puritan' to cause such a huge uproar?