Arthur Miller was born in the year of 1915 in the month of October on the seventeenth day. He was born to an immigrant family, and his dad: Isidore Miller, owned a coat manufacturing business. However, they were no exception to the depression and when the stock market crashed they lost almost everything. The family moved to Flatbush, Brooklyn. Throughout his life, Arthur was always closer to his mother Augusta. His mother loved reading novels, she was also a educator.
Furthermore, when Arthur finally saves up enough money to attend college he goes to the University of Michigan. It's there that he starts majoring in Journalism. Around the same time he also works for the university's newspaper, called the Michigan Daily. However, he also majors in english.
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Though, some of his more popular plays are Death of Salesman, All my sons, A view from the Bridge, and The Crucible. The Crucible, is based around the Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Arthur wrote this play as an allegory of McCarthyism, which is a story that has characters or events that are a symbol of some kind whether its historical, political, as well as many other things. However, it also means making accusations without proof. His play The Crucible, is an allegory of McCarthyism because he takes the events that unfolded during the Salem witch trials. When the play first came out critics loved it, they said it was “a powerful play.¨ The play, The Crucible is still one of his more famous plays. When the play came out it was performed in the Martin Beak Theatre on Broadway, its first showing was on January 22,