McCarthy saw this fear as an opportunity to rise to power. He ruthlessly used scare tactics to get people to believe and follow him blindly into his accusations as to innocent citizens supporting communism and either having them jailed or killed by providing phony evidence. Known as McCarthyism the overly-paranoid “witch hunts” for infiltrators began. People were accused of being communists and found guilty with barely any say for themselves. Anyone could be named and they would suffer, just because they were “outsiders”.
McCarthyism beliefs were established by Senator McCarthy in which he stated that citizens found suspicious of being a communist or having any kind of association with the Communist Party deserved to be punished (Firy). Arthur Miller was once found guilty of taking part in Communist actions. Much like one of the characters in his play, he confessed to an uncommitted crime, yet refused to inculpate others. Much like the Salem Witch Trials, Miller noticed the injustice lingering upon the Communist Trials. The portrayal of his thoughts and opinions are reflected through The Crucible and its characters (Understanding the Crucible).
Did Sacco and Vanzetti had a fair trial? Why not? Were they guilty of the crime? No , Sacco and Vanzetti didn’t have a fair trail as they didn’t commit any crime but they got arrested and sentenced to death just because they are anarchists and confessed that they hated the capitalism and the American system of the government. Also, the Americans who tried them are all biases and when the court case was trailed, it was the height of the red scare so all Americans were being so paranoid when they knew that a murder case had something to do with foreigners and they didn’t even find out what the truth was and just assumed that Sacco and Vanzetti were the attackers.
Some relations with the play itself will also be made. To begin with, “The Crucible” is settled in Salem, a town inhabited by Puritans. Practitioners of this religion were very devout and superstitious people who believed that every behavior opposed to the Bible, even the tiniest thing, was a sign of the Devil and witchcraft. After the Second World War ended in 1945, the countries divided into two huge and powerful blocs according to their economic system: Capitalism and Communism, which faced each other, always on the brink of war. The play was written during this period called the “Cold War” in the United States of America, the leader of the Capitalist bloc.
Stalin greatly feared older members of the party too as they knew the truth of Stalin’s rise to power and what Lenin’s testament contained which would have ruined Stalin’s career. Under Yagoda’s influence of suggesting communists questioned Stalin, his paranoia further developed and caused the emergence of the great terror. Undoubtedly Stalin felt he had to perform the mass purges because of his paranoia that he would be removed from power. As Stalin was in control this must be the main cause of the great terror as his desire to remain in power was the drive for allowing the great terror to happen. The Congress of victors was a short term cause of the great terror and only added to the main cause of Stalin’s paranoia.
Salem in the late seventeenth century was not just a place of God, but also a place of emerging guilt. Many characters in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, such as Giles Corey, Reverend Hale and John Proctor, struggle with the deep-seated guilt in their hearts. The townspeople’s reaction to the witch trials reveals their guilt and transforms them. Their guilt ultimately contributes to the tragic finale of the Salem Witch Trials. The bottled up guilt in Salem is slowly gaining momentum amongst the townspeople.
Belonging is the human need for wellbeing, acceptance and social security. One belongs to a group, a family, a unit, and one can also be isolated from groups and rejected from communities. The Crucible explores the destruction of a community by mass hysteria which was caused by members of the community accusing one another of practicing witchcraft and devil worship. As Salem was a Puritan society, to act against God is frowned upon and cannot go unpunished. I wrote this play because it relates to the McCarthyism period which was happening during that time as others are constantly accused of being communist without actual official evidence.
Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th century was full of hysteria about witches casting spells, spirits being conjured, and the devil influencing the townspeople. Accusations of witchcraft, for personal vengeance, hurled fellow citizens into jail for eventual execution. The greedy were taking neighbors land once their innocent blood was spilled for crimes of witchery. John Proctor disliked the court’s lack of justice, and thought that the spreaders of the lies only did it to get what they wanted. All he wanted was for fair trials to be conducted and evidence to be looked for, because he was a very just individual and when a debate of who had authority he said “we vote by name in this society, not by acreage” (1.
Why and or Why not? Yes, it would warrant the judge being disciplined do to the fact that these unethical, illegal, and violated rights of others within his court and judicial office say that the judge is incompetent to fulfill his duties and obligations of his position within the judicial system all together. He does not respect himself, his position, the laws and others and he further gives indications to the fact that he doesn’t have any “Morals” what so ever here. In addition to my previous answer: Yes, the judge should be moved from office as well as being arrested for the violations he committed here. Moreover, I have read and heard in the news as well as the internet reports that is “Extremely Difficult to Remove a Judge from Office,” primarily because they all cover for each
His life is a web of lies and deceit in some form or another and the reader is set up to view Amir negatively. 1. * Amir’s inability to accept accountability or own up to his ‘past’ reaffirms his weakness in character. * Spends most of his life escaping the sins of his past which leads him to shame himself and with hold secrets. * Ultimate sin was the betrayal of Hassan, letting him get raped, then displacing Ali and Hassan from their home with Baba.