from the wiki: Miller intended "The Crucible" as an allegory to McCarthyism. ... The events that took place during the time the play was written were very similar to the Salem witch hunts. This is why Miller named the book "The Crucible" after the Salem Witch Trials.
Sadly I feel we as a country--the United States--are near
,if not exacly in/on the "zeitgeist" of both the witch trials, and the red scare...what happened on Jan 6 is a wake up call at the least, and systematic at worse..The Civil War just didn't suddenly happen...there were years and years of various events that proceeded it--Brown's uprising being one of the last...
So that all said, i am invoking Miller's play which once served to remind a crazed nation of another time when people on this great land lost their collective minds and "hunted" and even killed innocents...
