The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is an intellectual prototype to an embodiment of dynamic ideals of personal and the social tribulations within the writer himself. Many social issues have plagued him for a massive quantity of his existence that has played a main role in Millers active career as an author. In his writings, Miller often portrays the events around him by relating the writings to current tragic events in Miller’s lifetime: “Miller has continually addressed several distinct but related issues in both his dramatic and expository writings. In his early plays and in a series of essays published in the 1940s and 50s, Miller first outlined a form of tragedy applicable to modern times and contemporary characters, challenging traditional notions suggesting that only kings, queens, princes, and other members of the nobility can be suitable subjects for tragedy” . In Miller’s The Crucible, he portrays the events of the McCarthy hearings, as in that event mass-hysteria was committed: “Miller's play The Crucible (1953), although concerned with the Salem witchcraft trials, was actually aimed at the then widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the United States.” As Miller’s writing describes these events in history, his ideals of political beliefs are established. He believed that mankind should not be blamed or treated differently from the fact they themselves are different. As by the McCartney hearings, Miller, in an interview, made statements through his writings to deplore these criticisms: "There was no response to McCarthyism, except for The Crucible." Just like the Holocaust, and McCarthy hearings, in The Crucible, Abigail, and attempts to put Elizabeth to death by claiming she has committed witchcraft for her own sake: “She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this!” This is not the first event mass-hysteria has occurred. Ha...
