It seems quite by chance that Miller visited Salem, Massachusetts in the spring 1952. Some 250 years before, Salem had been the setting of the most tragic legal miscarriage of justice in the United States history. In the article, “Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible,’” originally published in The New Yorker, Miller explained how he came to write the drama:

“The Crucible” was an act of desperation. Much of my

desperation branched out. I suppose, from a typical

Depression—era trauma—the blow struck the mind by

Rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it

had brought to power. But by 1950, when I began to think

of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was

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