The Crucible
Many of literature's finest works have been a response against a social or political situation. The French Revolution was documented, romantically if not accurately, by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, and Victor Hugo in his masterpiece, Les Miserables. An excellent example of a modern event that inspired a masterpiece of fiction is the McCarthy Witch-Hunts. Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible, in response to what he felt was madness on the part of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The author's revelations between the Salem Witch Trials of the seventeen century and the McCarthy Witch-Hunts of the 1950s were so powerful that an attempt was made to ban the book in the United States. By using a historical event and real people, and considerable artistic license, Miller created a dramatic tour de force parallel to the McCarthy Investigations in Un-American Activities. From 1950 to 1954, the four years that Joseph McCarthy served in the Senate were his glory days and America's darkest. In May 1954, he confronted the United States Army and its secretary, Robert Stevens with charges that they were Communist agents, and the famous Army-McCarthy hearings started soon after. With a television audience of twenty million Americans, th
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