Joseph Mccarthyism The Crucible

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a series of prosecutions of people who were accused of acts of witchcraft or of being a witch in Salem, Massachusetts through the time period of February 1692 through May 1693. This was a dark time in history as more than 200 prosecutions took place and at least 20 people were killed during this time of fear and hysteria. The accusations began as three girls Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne were accused of witchcraft from other young girls in the community. During this time period, fear of the Devil was common as people in Salem were very devoted to their religion and religious practices. As one of the accused girls, Tituba, confessed to working for the Devil and admitting to being a witch, this caused panic and hysteria as a massive witch hunt took place to find more of these witches. This confession was the main reason behind months and months of fear and mass panic as it triggered more accusations.

What was the Salem Witch Trials? During 1692 and 1693, colonial Massachusetts accused more than 200 people and executed twenty women for practicing witchcraft. Witchcraft at the time was known as the Devil’s magic. Several centuries ago, many religions had a strong belief in the Devil. Among these religions was Christianity. The religions believed that the Devil would give the witches the power to harm others. The witches, in return, would offer the Devil their loyalty. Between the 1300s and the end of the 1600s, more than ten thousand women were executed due to be involved with witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trials occurred when Reverend Samuel Parris’s daughter and niece started to behave strangely. Samuel Parris was Salem’s first ordained minister

The horrors of history are passed on from generation to generation in hopes that they will never occur again. People look back on these times and are appalled at how horrendous the times were; yet, in the 1950s, history repeated itself. During this time, Joseph McCarthy, a United States senator from Wisconsin, began accusing people of being communists or communist sympathizers, which is parallel to the Salem witch trials in the late 1690s when innocent people were accused of practicing witchcraft. One of the people McCarthy accused was author and playwright Arthur Miller. To express his outrage at McCarthy’s actions, miller wrote The Crucible, intentionally drawing similarities between the McCarthy hearings and the Salem witch trials.

The Salem witch trials were a difficult time for the citizens of the Massachusetts Colony in the late seventeenth century. They were accused of practicing the Devil’s magic, which many believed to be real; so real that people were being imprisoned and executed for it. Between the years 1692 and 1693 there were over two hundred accusations and about 20 people and two dogs were killed altogether.

Introduction - The Salem Witch trials was a time of hysteria and confusion. People were being accused and giving false confessions of witchcraft being performed on the people of Salem, Massachusetts.

Arthur Miller's The Crucible, depicts the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 but is analogous to the McCarthy trials of the 1950s. In both situations, widespread hysteria occurs, stemming from existing fears of the people of that particular era. The Salem witchhunt trials parallel the McCarthy era in three major aspects: unfounded accusations, hostile interrogation of numerous innocent people and the ruination and death of various people's lives.

In order to be accurate in accusing someone of a crime, you must have the appropriate evidence to back up your story. In The Crucible, many people were accused of practicing witchcraft. The ones who confessed, were sentenced to jail and the ones who denied it, were killed. The only way they had to prove what was being done, was spectral evidence. Therefore, the only person known to tell the truth was the victim. McCarthyism involved communists, like The Crucible, those who were accused were sentenced to jail time. The parallels between The Crucible and McCarthyism are naming names, the lack of evidence, and rebellion against the government in which they served.

Many years ago before I was born, history was made .There were two major events that made history which where the “Salem witch trials” and “McCarthyism”. One started in the late 1600’s while the other started in the 1900’s. In these two events they had a lot of similarities, but they also had some differences as well. As years go by we can see what actually sparked these events and what made them go down in history. The Salem witch trials started in the 1692 in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Have you ever wonder what life was like during the McCarthy Era? As many generations passes by, a lot tend to look back reminisce on those who had lost their lives. Innocents were accused without any evidence, suffered, tortured, and killed. People were arrested with no doubt just because of accusations that were made. In the story, The Crucible which takes place in Salem is about innocent people getting accuse with false accusations because of witchcraft. However, McCarthyism is similar to The Crucible because of those who were accused and tortured. Which then the innocent no longer had that pride of being who they were because of the false accusations. Therefore, The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the

The Salem Witch Trials were a series of killings of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts back in 1692. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was governed by the ideals of the calvinist church. Children were educated based on religion and the need to be striktly pious to prevent their eternal damnation. There were rumors of witchcraft in which children began to have strange fits. Elizabeth Betty Parris was the first afflicted girl and one of the main accusers during the Salem Witch Trials.

The Salem witch trials represents a time of collective, social paranoia of the unknown. This same type of anxiety arose during the Cold War with McCarthyism and the red scare. To a certain extent, paranoia still exists today in the form of fearing terrorists and being suspicious of sleeper cells. The Salem witch trials consisted of judicial hearings of women in colonial Massachusetts that were accused of witchcraft from 1692 to 1693, which resulted in twenty executions with most of them being women (Goss 4). Like much of the collective paranoia that arises in this country, the Salem Witch Trials were rooted in racism.

The Salem Witch Trials were the ultimate denouement of 300 years and 50,000 deaths resonating from witch hunting that began in England. Over this time period these witch hunts grew exponentially, ultimately climaxing in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. During this time, the Puritans who lived in Salem were ruled by a theocracy which took its governing laws and rules by beliefs and scriptures from their holy book. The theocratic government paired with the misogyny of the time period was cause for scores of women to be tried for being a witch. Pleading guilty or not, and confessing or not, those accused of witchcraft were tortured to death by various methods.

Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a horrific time in the colony of Salem, present day Massachusetts. It was a low point in the American history where many people were accused and some people were even killed, at that time. It was a time when many women and some men were put on trial and tortured for being accused of being a witch and doing witch craft.

колдовство, or witchcraft, in Russia was not as common as in Europe, however, the Soviet Union devised a different kind of ‘witchcraft’. Although Arthur Miller related his book The Crucible to American McCarthyism, it was just as relatable to East Germany or even modern day Crimea.

The Salem Witch trials were in the 1960’s. People were being accused of witchcraft. This trial causes so much fear. A group of girls kept accusing random and innocent people to their death. The Jury interviewed so many people.