Miller's Intentions In The Crucible And Communism

What were Millers Intentions in his writings? What was the message he was trying to convey? Well, Miller had intended 'The Crucible' to be a gateway in which he could share his view point on Communism; he wanted to let the world know the extreme numbers of people that were accusing each other of being Communist in the later part of the 1950's. However, Miller was aware that if he wrote directly on Communism it would not be published, due to people’s views on the subject, therefore he chose another event which had many parallels, for example, the extremity of accusations. This led him to write his views based upon the events of the Salem witch trials.
McCarthyism was the fear of communism which spread across America in the 1950's. The hysteria of the American citizens was due to the threat that communism would spread across the globe. This is when the paranoia began to start. During this period the FBI accused many people of communism, meaning that the accused suffered from job loss, and many of their lives, as they knew them, were destroyed. The movement took the name from the anti-communist leader Joseph McCarthy. Hence, McCarthyism. The late 1940s & 50s saw the increase of anti-communist sentiment throughout America which created a Red Scare, in which McCarthyism exploded, leading to the loss of many jobs particularly in the
During the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy said, “Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work (US History).” Apparently both the Reverend from ‘The Crucible’ and Senator Joseph McCarthy had the same idea of eradicating the evil and or traitors out of their societies, unlike the monstrous intentions of the girls in ‘the Crucible’ Reverend Hale and McCarthy both genuinely believed there was an evil amongst