...“The Crucible” The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller and was published in 1953. Arthur Miller wrote this famous play during the well known “Red Scare” when McCarthyism was first established. The similarities between the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and the Red Scare of 1950 were shown in his writing. Reading The Crucible in high schools today, educates society on the poor judgement of the 1690’s and 1950’s also putting a stop to the chance of it reoccurring in the future. From the 1690’s to the 1950’s, our leaders have made certain decisions that have greatly affected the way we think and act today. The Salem witch trials of 1692 took place in a small farming town in Massachusetts that was categorized as mostly as Puritans. Puritan religion basically opposes anything that is not modest and or proper, this is why it was a big shock when Abigail had told people she conversed with the devil. “I danced for the devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book”. When the town heard this news their fear became overwhelming and they began making...
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...The Crucible The play, The Crucible written by Arthur Miller in 1952. It takes place in Salem, Massachusetts when the witch trails started a paranoid frenzy. “The Crucible evokes a lethal brew of illicit sexuality, fear of the supernatural, and political manipulation.”(New Yorker). Arthur had inspiration from the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s. He was also inspired because this was written on the tail end of the World War II. Arthur wanted the audience to see how similar the government was treating Americans. Compared to the 1692 paranoia of Salem witch craft era. How people was getting treating was inhuman respect and reputation goes a long way. Salem took this and Religion very seriously. “When in 1950 McCarthy addressed the Ohio Candy Women’s...
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...Relations Between The Crucible and The Red Scare Ever experience the feeling of being falsely accused? This was exactly the feeling many people felt, during the times of witchery and communism. In, “The Crucible”, many people were being accused of witchery, and would only remain alive, if they confessed. During the times of communism “The Red Scare” showed the increase of fear, involving going against the leaders and speaking up for what was right. Both the play and the article are similar in many ways. While Arthur Miller clearly wrote the play “The Crucible” to demonstrate his belief that an individual should never give up the power to think for him or herself, he also intended it to be an allegory for “The Red Scare”. Being punished for...
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...September 2016 The Crucible VS The Red Scare The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Red Scare relate because of the way the trials were held. The Crucible just like The Red Scare has something to do with convicting, killing innocent people and imprisoning. In the Salem witch trial, people were in trepidation of witch craft the same way that Americans were in apprehension of communism. Around this time and between The Cold War, Joseph McCarthy was a first-term senator from Wisconsin and he had won the election in 1946 after a campaign, which he then criticized all of his opponent’s failure to enlist during WWII. By the end of time, McCarthy lost some allies. He kept his job and lost his power. He died in 1957 at 48 years old. The Red Scare has always been said to be the most effective of WWI. The Salem witch trials didn’t have any type of cause and there were even some reports of more witchcraft in other towns. Arthur Miller had become very fascinated with the environment and how it affected society as a whole. Arthur also wrote an essay in 1996 called “Why I Wrote The Crucible; Authors answer...
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...The Red Scare in the 1950’s had Americans constantly worried about Russian spies and communists. There were accusations and trials to maintain America’s “purity”. The Salem Witch Trials, in 1692, have multitudes of similarities to the Red Scare. The town of Salem was filled with accusations and trials to rid America of witches. In both instances, there were faulty accusations and many citizens were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. About 250 years later, Arthur Miller experienced this firsthand, when he was convicted for contempt of Congress. Miller utilizes appeal to fear and parallelism within The Crucible to achieve his purpose of addressing that history repeats itself. Both the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials caused citizens to fear for their reputations and for their lives. With one simple accusation, all could be at stake. Miller incorporates this fear into The Crucible in a scene where Danforth and Francis are speaking of all of the accused: Danforth: And do you know that near to four hundred are in jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature? Francis: I--...
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...When you compare two time periods with such time in between ,you rarely find any similarities but with expert crafting by Arthur Miller was able to draw lots of the same moods and evidence from both time periods . Using the basis of the witch trials and the red scare he was living through I believe Arthur Miller wrote “”The Crucible” to show how stupid the current era of McCarthyism. The Red scare was a time period in the 1950’s where American senator Joseph McCarthy was accusing many Americans of being communists. This was a time where the entire country was weary of their neighbors because of the thought that they supported the communist opposition. Most of these if not all of the accusations were false and only caused hysteria . The...
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...Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible using catastrophic periods in history to create his vivid literature as a metaphor for alienation of the innocently accused and influenced minds of an entire community. The Red Scare connects to The Crucible by the indistinguishable missing evidence of the accused and crossing the border to a megalomaniac. In addition, Miller uses actual names and historical events from the Salem Witch hunt in the 1690s in this play. He uses these events to explain what happened with Abigail’s plan for lovelorn revenge by the similar false accusations, mass hysteria, and aspiration of power during the Red Scare. During the red scare in the 1950s, the senator of Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, caused mass paranoia by telling the...
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...to constantly live with a guilt for an event that never happened. During the Red Scare this is what was occurring all around. In The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor was accused by Abigail William because of her hatred towards Elizabeth. In the Red Scare they targeted celebrities because they thought they were high targeted and could possibly be a communist. The Red Scare influenced the book “The Crucible” by reflecting the United States government with the court of Salem, people who were accused and arrested for being a Communist, in addition to fear with how scare tactics impacted societies. The Red Scare influenced the book “The Crucible” by reflecting the United States government with the Court of Salem. During the Red Scare, the United States government and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political problems with economic clashes. Both the Soviet Union and the United States’ intense rivalry caused tension between these two superpowers which raised concerns in the United States that communists were inside America might have been working as Soviet spies. These Soviet spies were said to perhaps, pose a threat to the U.S security. As for the Court of Salem, a group of young girls claimed to be...
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...Nicole Yazzie September 19, 2012 PSY 240 Remarriage Introduction • % of how many people in U.S. remarry Statistical study of how many marriages and divorces happen in the U.S. % of people that remarry right after divorce or stay divorced? • Why people remarry? To explore other relationships and their interests Change in gender choice Death of spouse • What are consequences to a remarriage? Children have difficulty adjusting to new accustoms (new mom or dad, house, new family, new location) Financial problems with ex-spouse Trust issues due to previous marriage When remarrying another person it might be twice as hard to fall back in love with another person or easier than your first marriage. Paragraph 1 • 85% of U.S. population marry • 75% divorce after marrying • 60% of those divorced will most likely remarry • 35 million Americans are remarried in U.S. • additional 36 million who are divorced or widowed Paragraph 2 Reasons to why people remarry? • Unhappy with who they were recently with • Wanting to explore other options with other people • Change in gender choice • Death of spouse, in need for another lover • Different choice or racial outlook Paragraph 3 Consequences to a remarriage • If previous marriage had children, than...
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...The Crucible and McCarthyism have many similarities when it comes to unjust accusations and the persecution of the innocent. What exactly is McCarthyism? McCarthyism was started and fueled by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the late 1940’s. He proclaimed and insisted that communist spies were all over the U.S. and that he was the country’s only salvation(2). This lead to a wide-spread panic across the country, which led to hundreds of people being accused with little to no proof. This panic was referred to as “The Red Scare”. What does this have to do with The Crucible? The Crucible has many similarities with McCarthyism and the Red Scare. For example, the accusations made by the young girls in the story can be compared to the accusations made...
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...The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play written about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. The story shows how people were accused of witchcraft through the corrupt society and killed for their supposed crimes. The time that Arthur Miller lived was filled with fear of communist infiltration into the government and accusations of people who were thought to be communists. Through his use of the Salem witch trials in The Crucible, Arthur Miller effectively illustrates the lives ruined from accusations during the Red Scare, showing the irrational way of dealing with paranoia and mob mentality leading to these accusations. The paranoia growing in people’s minds led to accusations during both the Red Scare and Salem witch trials. In the 1950s communism seemed like America’s greatest fear. The thought of communists infiltrating the American government was terrifying to Americans. With such fear of something comes paranoia of it. Because of this situation,...
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...is in the Crucible, somebody would accuse somebody else of being a “witch” and the accused person denied of being a witch and then that person would lose his land and die in the same process such as john proctor. The red scare was a time period when fear of communism was spreading around and was getting more and more people of communism. Communism is the same as being called a “witch” according to the Crucible. The United States was involved in the whole red scare time period because i think that the red scare started somewhere in the United States. It affected people in america because people were being accused of being a communist and if they didn’t admit to being a communist, the people would be killed i think probably by being hung up. Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” is similar to the Red Scare/ McCarthyism because the whole situation was based on who was being accused of being what and in the Crucibles case, people were being accused of being witches and in the red scare act thing they were being accused of being communist. It is also similar because if you did not confess to being a “witch” or a “communist”, then they would take away your property and kill you. The difference between them that i noticed through the play was that there was an affair involved well at least the ages were different but that’s what i noticed. An example of this is that when somebody didn’t confess, they did die by getting hung. I’m pretty sure that during the red scare they were hung...
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...Throughout history fear has invoked society into violence, division ,and also hatred. Fear does not discriminate, it can be shown in every nationality, race and gender. Fear takes form in many different ways. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller fear was in a form of assumption and accusation.During the 1800’s, The Ku Klux Klan was one of the biggest cults based of fear along with hysteria during the depression. In the 1990’s The Red Scare was parallel to The Crucible based on accusing citizen of communism. The most powerful motivator in society is fear, because it develops a change in society. The Crucible along with The Ku Klux Klan intersect with each other. In both incidents fear was used as an crucial instrument. This was the main reason...
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...A Throne of Lies This is all more than just a little white lie. In 1953, Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible because of his experiences during the Red Scare of which many people were being accused of being communist. The Crucible is about trials for people who allegedly practiced witchcraft in the late 1600’s in Salem, Massachusetts. Herbert Lawrence Block was a cartoonist during the Red Scare period and was also impacted by the Red Scare. His cartoons had a similar theme as The Crucible. The Red Scare affected many people through false accusations; we see this in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. Many of the characters in the Crucible were falsely accused of witchcraft. People would accuse others without having any actual evidence, by using what they called spectral evidence. “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil, I saw Goody Osborn with the devil, and I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil “(Miller 89). These were examples of accusations in which innocent people were implicated of witchcraft. The people that were accusing did not understand the harm they put on others until they were accused themselves and could not do anything to prevent it. Herb Block’s cartoon “It’s okay… We’re hunting Communists” was a cartoon for the Red Scare showing the harm the House Committee inflicted by hurting innocent people just for finding possible communists. In the cartoon Herb Block shows the reckless driver running over innocent people. This was similar to Salem because many innocent people...
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...Crucible Essay History repeats itself in many ways sometimes it will be a man making a simple mistake like a man forgetting to pick his dry-cleaning up or it can be something along the lines of people becoming paranoid and fighting and preparing for things that aren’t really there. The Red Scare of 1947 to the late 1950s is a perfect example of our nation repeating a history event from 1692, The Salem Witch Trials an event that our nation still remembers today innocent lives lost that definitely didn’t deserve it. One of the victims to the Red Scare Arthur Miller made a satire of it using “The Crucible” (A play based on the witch hunts) comparing the Red Scare to the Salem Witch Trials, he claims everything he was accused for is just as ridiculous and embarrassing to our country as the Salem Witch Trials were. In this Essay I will be comparing Arthur Miller's Crucible to the Red scare of the 1940's. There’s this Guy who basically claims our government is filled to the brim with communists and we need to weed them out, His name is Joseph McCarthy, he was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin in 1909 and he died in 1957 on May 2nd due to Alcohol poisoning.(Joseph 1) On 9th February, 1950, at a meeting of the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, McCarthy claimed that he had a list of 205 people in the State Department that were known to be members of the American Communist Party (late he reduced this figure to 57)(Joseph 1). Joseph McCarthy was a dirty man who in fact...
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