As most people familiar with the play are aware, Arthur Miller wrote this play as an allegorical commentary on the McCarthy hearings and the so-called "Red Scare" sweeping through the United States in the 1950s. Many people in the entertainment and media industries were suspected of being Communists, even if they had only attended a meeting or were acquainted with someone who was one. The hearings before Congress were seen as a "witch hunt"...
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