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Arthur Miller

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns of threats of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. Focused on these new concerns, a senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public presentation that more than 200 communists had accessed the United States government. Eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for conducting false statements. His enthusiastic campaigning ushered in one of the most restraining times in 20th-century American politics. During American history there has been an event that unquestionably parallels that of the witch trials in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The Red Scare was a time in history when the United States was in apprehension of the communist government of Russia. People were to be thrown in jail and/or fall at criminal charges for speaking against the government. In the Salem witch trials people were in trepidation of witchcraft the same way that Americans were in apprehension of communism. During the time period when the witch trials occur in The Crucible, people are forced to either confess crimes of witchery or pass the blame towards another.
 * "The Red Scare"**

Arthur miller wrote about the red scare, since he himself was accused of being communist. His play, The Crucible, is about the Salem which trials, in which men and women were accused of witchcraft and put to death because of it. Arthur Miller drew parallels between both the Red Scare and the Salem which trials, and decided to write about what he was experiencing at the time. He was put on the Red list in the 1950's, and was accused of being against the American government. He did confess that he had attended certain meetings, but he denied ever being a communist.
 * Arthur Miller**

“There is a great parallel between the witch trials and the “Red Scare.” Both created a frenzy among the public, involved people going against each other to prove their innocence, and sought to hunt out those who rebelled against the dominant values of the time.”
 * Relation to other events**

(independent.co.uk) (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/mccarthyism/484/) (http://www.essays.cc/free_essays/b1/mts83.shtml)