The Red Scare In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller is an upper class, well-educated man who has been influenced by the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. This piece is about the Red Scare, which took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. The audience of the piece is the upper-class wealthy people who were well educated and knew about the Red Scare. Arthur Miller wrote this piece to reveal to the American people the government and their misinformation. Miller states that the play is about the Salem Witch Trials and the Puritans. The overall tone of the piece is negatively talking about Salem and the Puritans and, in a way, talking about the Red Scare through the Witch Trials.

Miller talks about the wilderness, darkness, and the mystery. Miller states, “The edge of the wilderness is close by. The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of mystery for them. It stood, dark and threatening, over their shoulders night and day, for out of it Indian tribes marauded from time to time, and Reverend Parris had parishioners who had lost relatives to this heathen.” (Miller 2) In the Crucible it has many uses of symbolism as well as in this passage; whether it is about nature, colors, or feelings. Arthur Miller uses symbolism to tell the reader more about the Red Scare and how he relates to