In the novel The Crucible, Arthur Miller paints a picture in the reader's mind of the brutality that followed during the witch trials of Salem and Massachucettes and ventures into the personal stories of the victims and the people who initiated the whole disaster. History repeats itself constantly, this becomes evident when comparing the Salem Witch Trials, Nazi Germany, and the Communist scare in America. When Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, he kept in mind what some thoughtlessly assumed was an ever-expanding communist revolution and used some of the issues of corruption throughout those years in his play. Blind faith, ignorance, disloyalty, the struggle for power and human indecency are all factors that contributed to the mass hysteria that followed during the McCarthyist "witch hunts" as well as the witch trials of Salem in The Crucible. Miller's intention in writing this story was not only to prove something about the terrible historical tragedies, but to express the domination that betrayal, lust for power and ignorance exert over a community through the characters John Proctor, Abigail and Reverend Hale. Proctor becomes the hero of the story and his decision to plead guilty to witchcraft and live with this lie; unlike not confessing, in which case he would be put to death. His final decision helps Millers focus on the choices surrounding betrayal. Proctor comes to a point in his life where he is debating with himself the repercussions of betraying himself versus betraying those citizens before him who were accused of witchcraft and died with respect in his mind, as exemplary Christians. He argues internally with himself and ultimately decides to die confidently in the middle of a paper. Afterwards, his internal switch flips and he stops believing everything he hears. Miller used Hale and the rest of the court – important religious and political figures – as a symbol of the ignorance residing not only in the lower parts of a community but also in those who rule it. Arthur Millers, The Crucible was written to illustrate the It often happens that a group of people are victims of mass hysteria, driven by duplicity, the pursuit of power and blind faith. The author shows them through specific victimized characters, deceptive citizens, and the city's unreliable government system. The book tells about real events in a time when all these negative qualities lead to the death of innocent people and the corruption of a small village. Just as other painful periods in history occur all over the world; again and again.