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The Crucible was written and produced during the McCarthy witch hunt of early fifties and this was a kind of political parable. This work is the dramatization of Salem witch hunt in New England theocratic community in the seventeenth century. The witch hunt of Salem begins from little girls' simple sport (or picnic) in a dark forest. This happening is interpretated as a profane ceremony by the Salem community. When Reverend John Hale and Salem people threaten Negro woman Tituba and girls to confess a witchcraft, the women pretend to he ohsessed by the devil for the fear of punishment. The men of Salem have evolved a patriarchy that reposes all social, political, and religious power in male hands, disempowering the women to the status of children. And silly accusations of witchcraft by some mischievious girls in puritan mask graduallv take possession of Salem. The Reverend Hale who is proud of witch expert himself sets fire in witch hunt and the ambitious minister Parris, the greedy Putnam, the envious Abigail, each of whom uses this situation to his[her] own advantage. The villainous judge Danforth enforces severe punishement with his political authority ignoring the appearance and the reality of witch hunt. In brief, Salem witch hunt is a mixture of private and public hysteria. In many cases there had been antecedent personal quarrels, so occasions of revenge followed; for some of those condemned had been suspected by their neighbours for several years with bitter rancor. John Proctor's affair with the young Abigail makes him endangered to death. When he is finally faced with the choice of death or confession (that he consorted with the Devil), he prefers death. The Crucible is a meaningful drama becuase it shows that every man high and low has the seed of hysteria which may cause other people to be victimized or victimize himself.