... comparing the thoughtlessness of the witch trials to that of the McCarthy hearings. Arthur Miller opposed the views of Senator Joe McCarthy, and The Crucible was a way for him to express an opinion in the matter. Arthur Miller had never supported the McCarthy hearings or the hunt for Communist spies becoming a ... dominating fixation of the American psyche. In fact, Miller's political activities in the 1950's led him to be called before the House Un ... for the ordinary person, and their intricate explorations of the inner lives of their characters." (Carson 24) The Crucible is no except...

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... " own fears, and the fears of the community also led to the use of scapegoats for the evils of Salem. Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible, a play depicting the tragic events that occurred in Salem, was "profoundly, angrily concerned with the immediate issues of ... overthrow the government of the United States. This anger with the events that transpired during the middle of twentieth century was what motivated Miller to write The Crucible. (Miller, "Why I Wrote" 160) Also, when observing the discrimination that has occurred as a result of the recent terrorist attacks on ... the anal...

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... hysterical over nothing, thousands of artists were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard ... to back up any of his claims, and then his following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. Arthur Miller had rewritten the Witch-hunt that had...

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... as a result of the Cold War, and Americans fear of communism. The American Communism scare of the 1950s also affected Broadway. Arthur Miller, author of the play Death of a Salesman, recalls the scrutiny he underwent as a result of his play's storyline. Miller recalls that "Death of a Salesman questioned the ethos of the business civilization, which the play intimates has no real respect for ... ...

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