Arthur Miller Wrote a Book About The Salem Witch Trials

Back in the day if you lived in this time you were very scared, because anyone could turn you in and get you killed. Arthur Miller wrote a book about The Salem Witch Trials and he was trying to compare it to the Red Scare. Miller wrote this book to make a statement to the public about what kinda world we were living in. Miller wrote the Salem witch trials to relate to the red scare and shows that the two have similarities and differences. That shows that people don’t deserve to be accused of something that they didn’t commit.

What is the red scare? So people might be asking what it is so I will tell you what it is. The ‘Red Scare’ is the promotion of widespread fear by society or state about the potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is often used to refer the two periods in the history of the United States with the name “The First Red Scare. The First Red Scare which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare, occurred immediately after World War II, it was preoccupied with national or foreign communists infiltrating U.S. society and the federal government.

Mr. Miller wanted to make a comparison between the red scare and the Salem witch trials. Miller wanted people to know that these two events in history were very similar and they had connections that people didn’t even realize. In the book, miller wrote that people would blame other people for no reason. If someone had a problem with someone else or if they were friends and the other one didn’t like them anymore all they had to say was that she is a witch and that person would get arrested. In The Salem Witch Trials Abigail and Elizabeth didn’t like each other so Abigail accused Elizabeth of witchcraft and Elizabeth was sent to jail.

Miller didn’t believe that someone should get accused of Witchcraft that easily and that it was an unfair advantage. So miller wrote the story for people to read about how unfair this time of the year was and how rude people can get. He wrote about how scared people were so they just started telling people that they committed witchcraft. Miller did not want people to rewrite the past witch is another reason why he wrote the story he thought that if people read this story and started to realize what was going on. Then most likely the people wouldn’t want that to happen again.

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