Similarities Between The Crucible And The Mccarthy Era

You ask me what parallels there are between the play The Crucible and the event The McCarthy Era. There were many parallels throughout the whole play. In this play everyone was blamed for no reason at all and all everyone one did was make excuses to try and not get their own selves in trouble. They were always wondering why everyone was getting tricked into believing that witches existed and it was because they were all just trying to get themselves out of trouble. Arthur Miller shows the audience that people have not moved on that much from when people were believing in the Salem witch trials. All through this play, Miller used the trails in The Crucible and the McCarthy Era because he realized that the events were the same. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to help everyone today, who wasn’t alive back then, notice that they were not going crazy they were just trying to keep themselves alive and just they were believing everything they heard.
Miller completed The Crucible in the 1950’s and at that time we were facing the civil …show more content…
There was also an obsession toward communism. Most people were getting very scared of communists and were trying everything they could to stop all the power they had. The H.U.A.C was an organization that was responsible for going around looking for communists and prosecuting them. This organization was led by Joseph McCarthy, and the committee hunted down many perspective communists for questioning, and Arthur Miller was in the group of people that were prosecuted. He refused to give the court any information because he disliked McCarthy. In both The Crucible and the McCarthy Era people were prosecuted based on what other people were saying and they could clear their names only by accusing others of the same crime you were committed for. Arthur Miller could see that it was a sinful cycle, and he was able to make a connection between the events from both time