Well as I have stated, The Crucible is an allegory of the Red Scare. In the book The Crucible a group of young girls are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. accuse almost anyone of being a witch. Anyone seen as acting strange was accused of witchcraft. Anyone even being around strange coincidences were accused of witchcraft.
Body Paragraph #1 A. Topic sentence : Arthur Miller’s development of Fear in The Crucible is parallel to the fear that was experienced in the 1950’s. B. CD #1: Abigail accuses Tituba of being a witch and to prevent herseld from being hanged, Tituba confesses that she was doing witchcraft (Miller 45-49). C. CM #1.A. : Being accused of being witch in Salem, Massachusetts was alarming because even if one was innocent, they are still held guilty D. CM #1.B: One could infer that the morals of society dictated that a person wasn’t “Innocent until proven guilty” but rather they were “guilty until proven innocent.” E. CD #2: “ [ In Hollywood] blacklists were quickly circulated of
McCarthyism is a term that was used when people were being accused of being a communist. The accused were innocent people who were being prosecuted because of statements made by others. These peoples lives were changed very drastically because of the accusations. Ray
The people of the community find out about the young girls practicing witchcraft, which scared the girls, because they risked being convicted and sentenced to death for using witchcraft. Abigail led the group of girls to accusing several people who supposedly were allied with the Devil, and the girls would see the accused in their dreams speaking with the Devil. As defined from the Oxford Dictionary, crucible can be referred to as “a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures” or as “a situation of severe trial, or in which different elements interact, leading to the creation of something new”. A severe trial, indeed. The community of Salem was a tight-knit community where the people believed that keeping their good reputations was considerably important in their lives.
The country, just like in the 1950’s – nearly 60 years prior was, and is sold on fear. However in this decade there isn’t a new “McCarthy” – one man is not needed to stimulate accusations and distrust as this fear is not against just anyone, but rather focused on specific ethnic groups. The terrorist scare of present times shares the same qualities and traits as the communist scare of the 50’s and the resulting effects on historian thought. Both are an overblown paranoia against a specific group of individuals causing much havoc and fear. Out of this fear comes the resulting philosophy or thought process of historians – a new pro-American, less critical view of the
Plus wearing that in an airport especially, and with play doh. That would scare people and it would be like a threat. Also, the play doh causes bombs to explode. I think she is guilty because she would have known better if she had common sense. The evidence from the Bethel case is that Matthew Fraser used bad language in a speech.
The Salem Witch Trials started by little girls acting strangely and then accusing others to have bewitched them. The defendants during the Salem Witch Trials took desperate matters to avoid being executed. Sarah Good resorted to saying the other accused “witch”, Sarah Osborne, had “tormented the children.” At one point Osborne even pretended to also have been infected by the witches’ magic. Tituba admitted to being a witch and told stories of flying around on broomsticks and being visited by creatures. Confessing to witchcraft was the only way a member of the accused wouldn’t be executed.
The Salem witch trials were a series of court hearings conducted in the New England colonies, more specifically colonial Massachusetts, to prosecute individuals with what was once a capital felony, of witchcraft. The prosecutions and trials were characterized by mass hysteria, lapses in due process, governmental intrusion on individual liberties and unsupported and/or false accusations. This climate of irrational fear and demagogic attacks shares many similarities with the anti-communists activities spearheaded by McCarthy during the Second Red Scare. The similarities between the two have been noted by many authors, journalist and playwrights alike in contemporary interpretations of the fear of communism and in post war America and to criticize the tactics
Anthony 11/3/13 The Crucible as an Allegory English 101 In 1953, American playwright Arthur Miller produced a play titled, The Crucible. It takes place in 17th century Salem, a small town in colonial Massachusetts. The play focuses on the actual events known as the Salem Witch Trials, in which dozens of people in and around the town of Salem were wrongfully and chaotically accused of witchcraft, Satanism, and devil worship by a group of teenage girls. It is firmly established that the play is an allegory of the hysteria and chaos that took place throughout the events of the Red Scare in the United States during the Cold War; a period in which politicians and ring leaders also wrongfully accused numerous amounts of people for supporting communism. It makes perfect sense as to why Miller wrote The Crucible allegorically to these events, 1953 was a time in which American fear and madness concerning communism was frankly getting out of control, just as the experiences in Salem were in the 1690s.
When the planes hit the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001 New York along with the rest of the United States was in a state of shock, confusion, and terror. Undoubtedly if the United States had insight on the horrible plans of the terrorists, they would have done whatever means necessary to secure the country, even if that meant torturing a discovered terrorist for information. Torture becomes necessary when information is needed to save other’s lives. If a terrorist is planning an attack that is going to end the lives of 10,000 people then the government needs to find out who is planning the attack and when it will occur. In this case it would be a life or death decision whether to torture a terrorist or not.