The Crucible is a play that explains the story of the Salem Witch Delusion. Arthur Miller, the acclaimed playwright, is the author of this performance. McCarthyism played a vast role in the creation of The Crucible. Many parallels were drawn between the play and the Red Scare. The Red Scare was a period of general fear of the communists dating back to the Cold War. Abigail Williams and Joseph McCarthy are similar in that they …showed first 75 words of 614 total…

…showed last 75 words of 614 total…to 22 to censure Senator McCarthy making him the fourth Senator who had been censured by the Senate. Treacherousness and malice were at the root of the Salem Witch Delusion and the Red Scare. Two contemporary individuals were blessed with the power to manipulate the justice system to their own advantages. Their malevolence brought their supremacy and reliability to a halt. Given that history repeated itself once, a strong atrociousness remains that it will repeat again.