The parrallels between The Crucible and McCarthyism are naming names, lack of evidence, and resistance. Both stories are very similar; the only thing different is in The Crucible, they were hunting actual witches, and in McCarthyism, the were hunting communist. One parrallel between The Crucible and McCarthyism is naming names. In The Crucible, Abigail and her group of evil children accused people of being witches. In the book things were said by Abigail such as, “I danced with the devil. I wrote
McCarthyism and The Crucible Communists are hidden in the government, and it is my job to weed them out. In Joseph McCarthy’s mind, this was his duty to track down communist and communist sympathizers. Throughout Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy’s career, he became widely known for his uncommon ideas of traitors planted in the Government. He went through great measures to discover the unfaithful and publicly trial those. Perhaps the biggest outcome was publicly naming ten people as communists in
In the late 1940's there was a rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Russia also known as the cold war. As the war intensified the U.S. began to analyze and determine whether citizens were loyal to their 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
Marcellus Benton Mrs.Minor English 3 26 September 2015 The Crucible: Religion and Politics The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, was written in the early 1950s during a period after World War II where the American government became paranoid of the spread of communism from the Soviet Union. These political ties can be seen within The Crucible, where the community of Salem became paranoid of the spread of witchery and the effect that had on their community. Due to these hysterias the American
In the article “Why I Wrote The Crucible”, Arthur Miller explores the relationship he observed between Joseph McCarthy's hunt for “Reds” and the Salem witch trials. Miller explains how the similarities led him to write The Crucible. The article makes the reader question if there are still witch hunts today. The play was written right after World War II, which ended in 1945, and was written when the United States was becoming concerned of the Soviet Union gaining so much power. According to a number