Arthur Miller Influence On The Crucible

Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible, lived through the 1950’s. During that time, there was a fear of communist ideas, and Americans had a campaign against it. Experiencing this time period had a lot of influence on the reasoning behind Miller writing this play. The Crucible was a play on the hysteria that was produced when the U.S. government sought to suppress Communism and radical leftism activity in America (Thirteen). McCarthyism and personal experiences during that time are two of the most important factors on why Arthur Miller wrote this play set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The personal connections that Miller had made while writing The Crucible shined through his writing. When he was in an American History class at Michigan,