What Is The Difference Between The Crucible And The Red Scare

Research Paper: The Red Scare and Arthur Miller

“There are today many Communists in America. They are everywhere -- in factories, offices, butcher stores, on street corners, in private businesses. And each carries in himself the germ of death for society.”

― J. Howard McGrath

The Red Scare was the threat posed by the Communist in the United States. Often times the Communist were referred as “Red” because of their faithfulness to the Soviet flag. There was a variety that had an immense effect on the United States government and the society. There were many people involved in this complication; including Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller finished writing The Crucible in 1952. He wanted his plays (especially The Crucible) to cause people to start asking questions. The Red Scare was the panic of the rise of Communism and there are many ways that Arthur Miller was involved.

The first Red Scare was after the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolshevik became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Russia in 1917 (ended in 1920). The second Red Scare was before World War II. It created the fear of the American Communist and created McCarthyism. It was significant because it came in the aftermath of the first World War and the Bolshevik Revolution. Furthermore, they showed an extreme fear that lead to the violations of individual rights.

The first scare

He wrote The Crucible in the early 1950’s, during the Red Scare and finished the play in 1952. The famous play was about the Salem witchcraft trials. Many thought that Miller was trying to attack McCarthy. Miller responded with, “It was not only the rise McCarthyism that moved me, but something which seemed much more weird and mysterious.” Miller wrote the Crucible because his reaction from the Red Scare, it reminded him of the Salem witchcraft trials. The playwright went to Salem and completed research and with the research he wrote his play, The