country. This was called the Red Scare. The U.S. were scared of communist because of their alliance to the red soviet flag. Communism is an economic system in which everyone is equal and the government owns everything. Of course people disagree. Joseph McCarthy a former American politician who served as a republican U.S. senator made claims that there were large numbers of soviet spies through out the country and people believe him. McCarthyism came into play. McCarthyism is the practice of making
because of McCarthyism, which could be described as the making of accusations without any real evidence. This term McCarthyism started being used because of Joseph McCarthy. He was a U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin. During the time of the Cold War, McCarthy became a very well known public figure. He was known for claiming that there were communists in the United States that we didn’t know of. Many people became very scared quite quickly. This became known as the Second Red Scare (maybe because
McCarthyism and The Crucible In the small Puritan town of Salem, a group of girls, including Abigail Williams and Tituba, go to the forest and dance. They are caught by the church minister, Reverend Parris. Parris’ daughter falls inert and the town fills with rumors of witchcraft. Abby tells the other girls that they must not admit to anything they did in the forest. After Abigail and Tituba are interrogated, Tituba finally confesses to communing with the devil and accuses many other townsfolk
The Crucible, we learn how people fail to learn their lesson the first time around. The author of The Crucible, Arthur Miller, wrote this play because we as citizens kept repeating the same mistakes over again in the 1950’s along with Joseph McCarthy. Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17, 1915. Arthur Miller and his family was very affluent. They had a great deal of money. The Miller family almost lose everything in the Wall Street crash in 1929. After the crash, Arthur Miller
The Crucible is a dramatic work by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play, first produced on Broadway in 1953, illustrates the story of the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693. Miller's tragic drama follows the protagonist John Proctor and his plight for justice amongst mass hysteria, which metaphorically examines the motivations and corruption of the McCarthy era in Miller's own time. McCarthyism was a time period during the 1950s in which, the practice
colonies were created during the Salem Witch Trials, explained through the story The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Other time periods, such as in the late 1950’s during the Second Red Scare, when people worried about the spread of communism through America, and between 1933-1945 during The Holocaust, when concentration camps were made to contain Jewish people. Miller’s message in the story The Crucible is saying that if we do not address
around for someone they can blame.” Society will always find a scapegoat to use when something reprehensible or frightening happens. “Half-Hanged Mary” by Margaret Atwood set in the late 1600s is one historical example of scapegoating. The Crucible by Arthur Miller set in Massachusetts in 1692 is a significant literary representation. The 1947 Herb Block cartoon “It’s okay -- we’re hunting Communists” from the Washington Post, is also a source showing scapegoating. In all three artistic works, scapegoating
problem. Arthur Miller portrays this idea within his play The Crucible, a drama based around the idea of displaying the traumatic notions of the Salem Witch Trials and further exemplifying the mistakes behind McCarthyism in the face of the Red Scare. The Crucible follows the story of a group of girls who provoke the fear of witchcraft within Salem causing the deaths of their neighbors through false accusations and hangings. The hysteria within the play epitomized not only the Red Scare, but events
A book named The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was staunchly influenced by both events. The McCarthy era and The Crucible are both prime examples of mob hysteria which makes people think unclearly, abandons their morals, ethics, and shows blatant corruption.