Similarities Between The Crucible And John Proctor

Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Arthur Miller is an American playwright who started writing “the hook” which is about union corruptions on the Brooklyn waterfront. Then he started writing The Crucible which is about a troubled young girl named Abigail Williams, who had an affair with John Proctor in his 30s, and the witch trials. He also wrote The Crucible during the communism time and during the “Hitler speech, hoping to give them a sense of the Nazi which my play took place.” The article allegory was about how Arthur Miller against McCarthyism, and how John Proctor and Arthur Miller are alike.
The allegory of Arthur Miller and McCarthyism began when Miller wrote The Crucible which shows the similarities between the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare. The fear of the the crucible still in some people as it did in the fifties “the play seems to be about the dilemma of relying on the testimony of small children accusing adults of sexual abuse, something I'd not have dreamed of forty years ago.” Arthur Miller once stated “The
crucible was an act of desperation. Much of my desperation branched out, I suppose, from a typical Depression-era trauma—the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it had brought to power.” Throughout The crucible he is full with guilt and conscience. Which he shows it throughout the characters of the crucible. Crucible is the reflection of the However during Miller’s time “The Red hunt, led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and by McCarthy, was becoming the dominating fixation of the American psyche.” When he wrote a screenplay of The Hook, Harry Cohn, whom the head of Columbia pictures. Conh then asked Arthur Miller to take the gangsters from Miller’s script, and change them to Communists. Everyone was feared because everyone was basically a communisms.
The similarities between John Proctor and Arthur Miller are numerous.
Miller characterizing himself through John Proctors. “I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see not light of God in that man” They both are great father, but they both are also horrible husband. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams. Meanwhile, Arthur Miller had an affair with lovely young, Marilyn Monroe. Secondly, they both were falsely accused crimes against society. In the 1950s, Arthur Miller was contacted by the “The Red hunt, led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and by McCarthy, was becoming the dominating fixation of the American psyche.” John Proctor meanwhile, was accused of being part of the witchcraft. Proctor and Miller both are noble. Miller attended the Communist party and had been sponsored by it, In Proctor’s case, he also admitted of being part of the witch trials and sacrifice his life for the
society.
In conclusion, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible because he wanted to show his point of view and on communisms. “When Gentiles in Hitler's Germany, for example, saw their Jewish neighbors being trucked off, or rs in Soviet Ukraine saw the Kulaks sing before their eyes, the common reaction, even among those unsympathetic to Nazism or Communism, was quite naturally to turn away in fear of being identified with the condemned.” He also wanted to show how many people were accusing each other of being a communists. Instead he wrote The Crucible because he knew that they wouldn’t publish it, but the story line of The Crucible and the Communism during the 1950s are similar. John Proctor and Arthur Miller are alike with numerous reasons. Miller and Proctor were falsely accused of being something they are not. These men also had an affair with lovely young women. And, lastly they are noble men.