Essay Comparing The Crucible And Joseph Mccarthyism

People believe that the McCarthy trials and “McCarthyism” are similar to Arthur Miller’s work by the title of The Crucible. These people relate the two in the sense that Joseph McCarthy never found anything or anyone actually communist. McCarthy actually did find quite a few communist sympathizers in the government. Not only that, but he was bullied while doing so by the media and the senate. If people were able to take a look at how the senate bombarded Joseph McCarthy, they would be outraged. They would almost treat him as a second class citizen, ”It took Joseph Mccarthy just under six hours to complete his speech on february 20, 1950 because of constant harassment from hostile senators who interrupted him a total of 120 plus times” (drummey). Senators did so in an attempt to force him into a sort of submission. Believe it or not, communist sympathizers practically flew away from their government jobs within just one year of McCarthy’s speech. “After McCarthy’s speech on february 20, 1950, more than 150 people were discharged from their government jobs due to loyalty issues in one year” (Drummey). To put that into perspective, 1 person every two and a half days were fired in the time space of 1 year. The senate tried to soil Joseph’s name multiple times. In fact, the senate wrote a report that says
For instance, “ Joseph had made the mistake of confusing a miss Anne Lee Moss with another woman of a similar name. Mrs. Moss was working in the pentagon who was wrongfully under suspicion of being a communist. After realizing he was wrong, he actually helped her get her job back in the pentagon” (drummy). Joseph was not so a heartless man who walked away from miss prosecuted suspects like it was never real. He actually wanted to help America. And as hard as it is to believe that, he obviously didn't want to ruin people's lives but was rather forced to do