Why Is The Crucible Still Relevant Today
Hysteria The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953. The Crucible is about a group of girls who practice witchcraft and then accuse innocent people of being witches in order to avoid consequences. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 during the McCarthy period when many Americans were accused for having Pro-Communist beliefs. The Crucible draws many parallels between the witch-hunts of the 1690s and the McCarthy trials of the 1950s The Puritan life was a very plain, straightforward life; their religion was a very harsh and strict religion. The Puritans’ life was mostly based on discipline and religion. Back in the 1690s, “A thousand Puritan settlers arrived in New England in 1630 after leaving England. In the next fifteen years the Puritan community in the New World would have almost 20,00 members” (“Overview: The Crucible” 1).
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According to Understanding The Crucible, “In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, instead of seeing witches everywhere, the government saw “subversives” people involved in an international conspiracy to ever throw the country” (Johnson and Johnson 141). Joseph McCarthy started a movement to stop communism from entering the United States, “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), a Wisconsin Republican, led a tidal wave of anticommunist political republican repression in the United States” (“McCarthyism” 1). Witchcraft was a major crime many years ago, but as more people were accused of witchcraft, the more people that denied it. There were too many people denying the fact that they are not witches, which caused the witch trials to stop. There were many accusations of communism in the 1950s. McCarthy himself also accused others of communism, especially when “McCarthy was nonetheless catapulted to national prominence as he exploited the press with thundering quotes and
According to Understanding The Crucible, “In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, instead of seeing witches everywhere, the government saw “subversives” people involved in an international conspiracy to ever throw the country” (Johnson and Johnson 141). Joseph McCarthy started a movement to stop communism from entering the United States, “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), a Wisconsin Republican, led a tidal wave of anticommunist political republican repression in the United States” (“McCarthyism” 1). Witchcraft was a major crime many years ago, but as more people were accused of witchcraft, the more people that denied it. There were too many people denying the fact that they are not witches, which caused the witch trials to stop. There were many accusations of communism in the 1950s. McCarthy himself also accused others of communism, especially when “McCarthy was nonetheless catapulted to national prominence as he exploited the press with thundering quotes and