Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” accurately depicts the proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials back in 1692. These trails are acclaimed to be some of the most controversial events occurring during this time period because of the unclear amount of truly guilty people facing these sentences with the mass hysteria of the devil lurking in Puritan society. Similarly, The Second Red Scare of 1947 was also very controversial because of hysteria and numerous faulty convictions. While all blame for appalling occurrences has seemingly been pointed to the devil in these situations, Mick Jagger’s “Sympathy For the Devil” would likely say otherwise. Hysteria usually brought out by fear of the devil and higher authorities should not be looked at as a result of the devil, but rather fault of mankind. Following World War Two the United States was in constant fear of communist espionage within its boarders and sought for it to be expunged immediately. President Harry Truman marked, "Totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States. (Truman Doctrine 1947)” transcribing this displayed the urgency the United States had to rid themselves of this matter. Similar to the Salem Witch Trials, trials were held to expose those whom are presumed to be of Marxist outlooks. Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” as an allegory for this time period of McCarthyism. It was written to show the parallels between the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials and to portray the dangers of dehumanization that may result from frenzy. During the Red Scare, Arthur Miller was sentenced to confinement out of speculation that he was withholding intelligence from the courts about names of suspected communists. Out of fear of authority, peers of Miller shamelessly gave information to courts to save themselves from this lockup unaware the legitimacy of these claims. Conversely, characters in “The Crucible” turned on each other out of hysteria brought out by higher auth