The Crucible probes into the totalitarian violence of the Salem society in which the subversion against the unity of the theodicy is thoroughly repressed by the apparition of witch-hunting. This theodicy claims force as God-given righteousness and social justice by which all the ruptures in discourse are mended and recuperated. Thus Miller holds the mirror up to the contemporary society in which otherness is always threatened to be absorbed, transformed, and homogenized into oneness. Miller’s concern about the imperialism of the ego and the forgetfulness of ethical relationship with the other in modern society brings to light Levinas’s philosophy as a methodology to approach this play, for Miller and Levinas pursued in their own fields ethics of the other as the quintessence of humanism. Both Miller’s criticism against the witch-hunting as the violence of the same and his positive description of Proctor’s assumption of the responsibility for the other running the risk of death can arguably be more clearly interpreted in terms of the concepts of Levinasian philosophy: the apparition of the same, the imperialism of the ego, and the metaphysics of the face, and the responsibility for the other. (Yeungnam University)