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How Did Arthur Miller Wrote The Crucible

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Arthur Miller 's dramatic playwright, The Crucible was about women who were being trialed for their association with the Devil and witchcraft and it took place in Salem, Massachusetts. Miller published The Crucible three years during the whole fiasco with Joseph McCarthy and him claiming that there were people who were communist living in the USA. During the McCarthy fiasco the claimed communist people where being trialed and investigated, much like the women in The Crucible who were being trialed for being classified as a witch. Miller states that he wrote The Crucible out of desperation. At first he wanted to write about the hunt for the Reds in America, but he was motivated to write the playwright because of the liberals fear of being
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