Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible , the 1950's Red Scare, and even in the world today, have elements of Arthur Miller's arguments which continue to be relevant throughout these chain of events in history and even into the present day society. In one of his four arguments he reasons that significant personal sacrifice is sometimes required in order to restore a sense of community and social order. I agree with this argument because it is what logically needs to occur in order for keeping balance in societies and in order for restoring a sense of reality into hysterical individuals, such as the ones in "The Crucible," "The Red Scare," and even in everyday life. In Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," the sense of order in the town of Salem Massachusetts quickly began to diminish as more and more people became hysterical, the immoral thoughts of witchcraft that associated individuals with others took a toll on the innocent. Some individuals like the character John Proctor, Mary Warren, and Reverend Hale, slowly began to realize that the mass hysteria that was the Salem Witch Trials had gone out of control, and attempted their own personal sacrifices. John Proctor makes his sacrifices by demonstrating his admission of adultery or "lechery  by confessing to Danforth; "Excellency, forgive me, forgive me. She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might! ”for I thought of her softly, God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat! But it is a whore's vengeance, and you must see it; I set myself entirely in your hands, I know you must see it now. My wife is innocent, except she know a whore when she see one (102) John sacrifices his reputation in the town in order to help his wife from being hanged, and to help the town of Salem. John Proctor and Marry Warren both sacrifice their reputations in Act 3 of "The Crucible , when John Proctor brings Mary Warren to the court to testify that the girls were in fact lying when they accused people from the village of being witches. When questioned by the court about crying out against these people, Mary Warren tells them that she was only caught up in the excitement of everything and since the other girls were doing it, she felt that she had to do it too. Then, when she is asked to show the court how she pretended to faint, she cannot do it, explaining that she has "no sense of it now.  (99) Following this episode in court, the other girls begin to accuse Mary of witchcraft and when this happens, Mar