Identify three reasons why Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible?

The late
playwrightnever did the public the favor of conveniently listing one or more of the reasons he
decided to write hisof the anti-communist hysteria sweeping the country during the early 1950s. 
One can, however, get a good idea of the motivations behind his writing
from an article he wrote for The New Yorker
(October 21, 1996).  In this article, titled Why I Wrote The Crucible: An Artists Answer to
Politics, Miller describes thein which he, a playwright, was immersed during a period in which
actors, writers, producers, directors, and others affiliated with the film industry and with the
theater were being pressured to implicate each other as communists or as individuals affiliated
in some way with the Communist Party of the United States, which was funded by the Soviet
Union.  Alarmed by the hysteria and by the injustices associated with this environment, while
simultaneously fascinated by the history of the Salem Witch Trials...

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