Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in order to give Americans a frightening mirror to stare into, with the hope that it might shock them out of their paranoid delusion. In his reflections on his work and society, he says “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable.” The identification of Americans resistance to accept their own mistakes shows a core problem that Arthur Miller wanted to target. The resistance to realize wrongs is something that The Crucible would directly challenge by presenting such a shocking situation that nobody could deny. If he could get Americans to realize how paranoia drove the people
