Arthur Miller wants to change the way people act towards the McCarthy trials, so he writes The Crucible. Simulate the McCarthy trials through dramatic situations and dynamic and static characters. There are connections that can be made between the communist hunt and the Crucible witch hunt. They represent how Miller sees society during trials. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it features Senator McCarthy as the court, the hysteria of people being declared communists as the hysteria of the town being declared a witch, and the high possibility of being targeted as communists as the high chance of being targeted as a witch. According to Miller, political representatives in the United States were abusing their power. Senator McCarthy labeled and targeted many citizens of the United States as communists. After making "a list of two hundred and five persons known as... members of the Communist Party," he followed them up by claiming that they were not loyal to the United States and that they were Communist Party spies. The abuse of power in the United States is demonstrated through the actions of the court in The Crucible. The court, composed of Danforth, Parris, and Hawthorne, prosecutes citizens accused of being witches. They use their power to "try" people for their crimes, but actual proof that that person is a witch is never mentioned. How people were found guilty or not depended on the court's judgment after hearing testimony that may or may not be true. The comparison between the two is that they both contain powerful leaders who make decisions based on unverified facts. Similarly, Herblock's cartoon “Okay...we're hunting communists” portrays how McCarthy took cha...... middle of paper ......ur Miller wrote the Crucible as a response to the McCarthy trials. He was trying to reveal McCarthy's abuse of power, the hysteria he was causing, and hopefully this would stop the terrible happenings in America. Miller transformed his private life into his play. He was the John Proctor of his time. It showed what society was like during the McCarthy trials and what needed to be changed. Works CitedBlock, Herbert. "Fire!" Cartoon. Washington Post. June 17, 1949: 25. PrintBlock, Herbert. "Okay...we're hunting communists." Cartoon. Washington Post. October 31, 1947: 18. Print.Block, Herbert. “You read books, huh?” Cartoon. Washington Post. April 24, 1949: 24. PrintMiller, Arthur. Why I wrote The Crucible. New York: The New Yorker, October 21, 1996. Print.Oakley, Ronald J. “The Great Fear.” The Crucible and related readings. Evanston: McDougalLittell, 1997. Print.