In Act 1, Miller writes: "In the countries of Community ideology, all resistance of any import
is linked to the totally malign capitalist succubi, and in America any
man who is not reactionary in his views is open to the charge of
alliance with the Red hell... A political policy is equated with moral
right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence...While there
were no witches then, there are Communists and capitalists now,
and in each camp there is certain proof that spies of each side are
at work undermining the other."
How do the characters, conflicts, and events of Act 1 represent
McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s? Explain all of the
similarities (and any differences) that you notice.