The Crucible And Mccarthyism Analysis
Comparison Between the Salem witch trials and the McCarthyism period
In today's world, there are many ridiculous happenings that people blow out of proportion. Everything as frivolous as celebrities from anything as serious as 9/11 many go overboard in any given situations. Like in the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller which is a comparison the ridiculous social paranoia of the McCarthy period in the 50’s and the salem witch trials. The play written by Arthur Miller shows how many has not changed from century to century. That there is many similarities from how people use to act to how we act now. Many of the same situations happened to both eras. Arthur miller wrote the crucible as a parallel to the communist scares in America; Both of which, had witches and communist trails which contained, loaded questions, personal power agendas, Or placing pressure on the accused to name others.
One similarity is that many random innocent people were brought to trial and …show more content…
Due to the severity of being accused of being a communist or being a witch one would be black balled or in the case of witch trials hung to death. This would allow people to come in and take their land During Salem. Or, in the case of communism, it would put people out of there jobs creating less competition allowing people to rise in a company.Or for the people of salem, allow them to buy the land of a witch because they lost legal ties to it. Many writers in the McCarthyism period were blackballed and struggled to find work. Like when in the crucible Miller says “why, abigail williams charge her.”(1176). Abigail charged john proctor's wife and many other townspeople. She accused john's wife because Abigail was obsessed with john. With john's wife out of the way abigail could be free to pursue john as she wished. This sort of hidden agenda was common among accusers who wanted something and decided to abuse the
In today's world, there are many ridiculous happenings that people blow out of proportion. Everything as frivolous as celebrities from anything as serious as 9/11 many go overboard in any given situations. Like in the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller which is a comparison the ridiculous social paranoia of the McCarthy period in the 50’s and the salem witch trials. The play written by Arthur Miller shows how many has not changed from century to century. That there is many similarities from how people use to act to how we act now. Many of the same situations happened to both eras. Arthur miller wrote the crucible as a parallel to the communist scares in America; Both of which, had witches and communist trails which contained, loaded questions, personal power agendas, Or placing pressure on the accused to name others.
One similarity is that many random innocent people were brought to trial and …show more content…
Due to the severity of being accused of being a communist or being a witch one would be black balled or in the case of witch trials hung to death. This would allow people to come in and take their land During Salem. Or, in the case of communism, it would put people out of there jobs creating less competition allowing people to rise in a company.Or for the people of salem, allow them to buy the land of a witch because they lost legal ties to it. Many writers in the McCarthyism period were blackballed and struggled to find work. Like when in the crucible Miller says “why, abigail williams charge her.”(1176). Abigail charged john proctor's wife and many other townspeople. She accused john's wife because Abigail was obsessed with john. With john's wife out of the way abigail could be free to pursue john as she wished. This sort of hidden agenda was common among accusers who wanted something and decided to abuse the