The Crucible (Movie vs The Actual Salem Witch Trials)?

The Crucible isn't so much about the Salem witch trials as it is about the McCarthy red scare of the 1950s. The witch trials are used as a giant metaphor for the paranoia that permeated Hollywood and the political spheres of Aurthur Miller's time. People were being accused left and right of being communists and being stripped of their positions and imprisoned with or without reasonable evidence. Thus Miller thought that the ogy of the witch trials was a reasonable fit. Its historical accuracy takes a backseat to its cultural significance of the day it was written in.