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JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY..... Salem Witch trials is a horrific stain on american history. With 19 dead and over 50 still in prison when the carnege came to an end, America was not the same after. We are unsure of exactly the date when the hysteria started but historians believe it was in jan 1692 when Betty Parris and Abiligail williams fall gravely ill. Just like a domino effect others girls followed with the same affects and no one knew what it was. Finally, a concerned Rev Parris called for a doctor. The doctor unbeknowst to himself set the carriage in motion for this unspeakable carnege; the girls were bewitched. As he put it "The Evil Hand was upon them." They for awhile refuse to name anyone, but they finally give Tituba as the bewitcher. This snowballs into people accusing their neighbors in order to get their land. Children drunk with power putting on the best show of their lives. Flast Forward to 1950's to the time of the Red Scare, the rampage Senator Joseph McCarthy went on. He made such brillant accusations but never once produced a shred or evidence. He scared people silly and used the mass hysteria to whip everyone up and drag this nonsense on. It does not mean that there were not communists in america just like there are really witches, but when you start blur truth and the lies people tell to get notice then you have a problem. McCarthy created the perfect recreation on the salem witch trials. He had neighbor turning on neighbor, father against son, mother against daughter, all in the name of purifiying our country of "RED".People were so suspicious of each other you even begin suspect your spouse, your best friend, you trusted no one.All the while accused people were lying to save their own skin and accusing others just so it will all stop and their lives could resume. Also people were turning others in, in order to gain a profit or benefit from that persons misfortune. Arthur Miller, the genius playwright of the Crucible was living in the time of an actual witch-hunt himself.He became a victim of McCarthy's cleansing process. Miller was tried and black-listed, but he would not give anyone elses name. Miller was sickened by the way everything about these hearings and how they were happening. It was like looking in a mirror to the past and seeing the witch trials all over again. He decided to fight back and remind people of our history and how we are dangerously close to repeating if not already there. So Arthur decided to give america a refresher course on what happens when the mob rules and justice is warped. Although he was inaccurate in some of the facts surrounding his play, the message was not. The play is a reminder that we should not be handing out justice based on emotions but by truth and righteousness.