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The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller as a reaction to McCarthyism. There are parallels between hysterical witch trials of the 1600s and communist witch hunts of the 1950s. The author is expecting the reader to find the witch trials unjust and then reach the conclusion that the McCarthy hearings are similarly unjust.
In 1956 Arthur Miller was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee while trying to obtain a passport. During the hearings he was convicted of contempt of Congress.
He was (falsely) accused of being a communist and McCarthy tried to force him to name others, which Miller refused. Miller later wrote a critical play about McCarthyism, called The Crucible.
It is pretty clear that he is comparing the House on Unamerican Activities Committee and MacCarthy's Army hearings to a witch hunt.
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The McCarthy hearings influenced the writing of Arthur Miller.
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Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a result of the McCarthy hearings in the 1950's. He felt both era were times of hysteria and witchhunts. In both cases, people were accused without evidence and people were asked to name names.
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The main difference is that McCarthyism was a real political period in the United States when Senator McCarthy tried to scare the people that Communism was leaking into our government whereas The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch trials.
Marilyn Monroe was one that I know of.
Though anti-Communist sentiment continued throughout the Cold War, McCarthyism essentially ended with Joseph McCarthy's downfall. He was ultimately censured in the Senate in 1954 over his unethical tactics.
Joseph McCarthy accused Arthur Miller of being a communist, so the feelings that he harbored toward McCarthy were unpleasant, to say the least. His play "After the Fall" seems to be modeled on his feelings.