The Crucible by Arthur Miller was an analogy of the Salem Witch Trials of

New England and

(A) the events of the Holocaust

(B) racism in the southern states

(C) the acts of Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee

(D) the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany

(E) the infi ltration of communism in the United States

The Acts of Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Committee. The play was used portray the similarities between McCarthy’s hut for communist spies and sympathizers with the Salem Witch Hunts. Both were similar in a sense when people were arrested on suspicion alone. Trials were unfair and many lives were destroyed as a result. People were put to do death while some lost their livelihood and their reputation was destroyed even if they did not do anything. In the end, people began to question the methods of how these investigations were being conducted and eventually it came to a halt.