First, to dramatize the hysterical effects of McCarthyism. Arthur Miller writes The Crucible for three main reasons. In American society, the Red Scare, a moment during the Cold War in the US when mass hysteria about communism hit the country, represents a distressful political time.
Noteworthy, the time setting of the play is the Salem witch hunt of the 1600s and 1700s, which the author uses to explain the dangers of mass hysteria. McCarthyism, which The Crucible records, is one of the political scars of America from the Cold War (Montesdeoca, 2017). This contentious era from 1957 to 1991 has many political and economic scars on America. The four-act play “The Crucible” was published in 1953, when America and the Soviet Union were in a non-combat contentious economic and political rivalry, the Cold War. The award-winning author of The Crucible, best known for his play, “Death of a Salesman,” craftily puts a 1950s political allegory in a play with hysteria at its heart.
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