Connections of 9/11 Attack to The Crucible
Our present day mass hysteria issues caused by the 9/11 attack stem from the same fear that drove the Salem Witch hunt in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and the Communist hunt during the Red Scare in the 1950s. We fear what we don't understand. In a frenzied state of irrational behavior we will point fingers and name names and accuse the innocent because we are afraid.