The Crucible Social Commentary Analysis

Arthur Miller was a famous playwright who wrote a dramatized story of the Salem witch trials in his famous play, The Crucible, in the early 1950’s. The Salem witch trials took place in the late 1600’s in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, about 260 years prior to when he wrote it. Arthur Miller uses his play to make social commentary about the events that were occurring in the era in which he lived in. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, the hysteria over the sense of communism became known as the Red Scare as the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. escalated. Communism was increasing around the world, and many Americans were in fear that the communists in the Soviet Union would take over the United States. Many members of the Federal