Witch Hunts In Mccarthyism And The Crucible By Arthur.
Essay about red scare and the crucible. of how the hysteria of the witch hunts could be dangerously similar to the communist hunts going on in the United States at the time.
The novel, The Crucible was written in 1953 by Arthur Miller, which was based on the Salem Witch Trials existing in the late 1600s. In the play, Abigail and several other young women accuse innocent citizens of Salem for the action of witchcraft.
It is known that modern day witch hunts include the communist hunts, the political events of the 1950s which inspired the characters in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The following groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds: political groups including Communists, Socialists, religious groups, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the groups of homosexuals.
Salem Witch Trials: The Salem witch trials had a lot in common with “the Witch Hunt” of the 1950's. Both Abigail and McCarthy use their towns to get what they want. McCarthy creates hysteria in with the fear of communism, and Abigail with witchcraft.
Miller composed The Crucible in the early 1950’s and it used the Salem Witchcraft trials of 1692 as a response to the anti-communist “witch hunts” to which miller was accused of. Miller believed that the madness surrounding the witchcraft trials was similar to McCarthy’s mission to terminate communism.
The Holocaust and the Crucible Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” in response to witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
The Crucible was written in the 1950?s but it takes place in the 1600?s during the Salem witch trials. It tells the story of John Proctor and Abigail Williams. No, it?s not a love story. It?s a horror story! That?s right, when listening to it being read, one does not feel happiness, you feel scared, scared of finishing it. It plainly is a bad book.