Similarities Between The Red Scare And The Crucible

In the book, John Proctor says, “I speak my own sins, I cannot judge another.” (Act IV pg. 141). In this quote, John Proctor refuses to condemn others as witches. He states that he can only speak for himself, and cannot judge another. Just like in The Crucible, people (including Miller) were accused of being communists, without any substantial evidence. Many of the accused confessed others as being communists, yet there were a few who refused to give out other names. In both the Red Scare and The Crucible, those who refused to give names of others’ faced punishment. This is an obvious illustration of the similarities in both The Crucible and the during the Red Scare in Miller’s life.

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play about the Salem witch hunt trials. Accusations of witchcraft made by townspeople against their neighbors led to confessions, by the accused, in order to save their own lives. As a result, hysteria ensued because the townspeople were suspicious of one another. Miller tried to point out the similarity between the fear during the Salem witch trials and the fear of communism in the 1950’s. John McCarthy, a politician, falsely accused government officials of supporting communism and, as a result, American citizens became afraid that communism was corrupting the US government. Both events were characterized by hysteria. Abigail Williams, a townsperson in The Crucible, contributes to the spread of

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” was written in response to the United States and Russia Red Scare. Miller used the “The Crucible” to inform people of how hysteria of the Salem witch trials resembled the communist accusations happening within the American government. At the time, McCarthy’s “witch hunts” for communist committing sedition.

The Red Scare and The Salem Witch Trials were both events that left a mark in American history. The Red Scare began in 1917 and took place across the United States. The Red Scare was known as the widespread promotion of anti-communism. The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and took place in Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials were various court hearings and prosecutions of people in Salem accused of Witchcraft. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play about The Salem Witch Trials, to send a message to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the face of The Red Scare. Even though both of these events took place at completely different times their connection remains profound. The Crucible and The Red Scare have various similarities and allegories

The Red Scare and The Salem Witch Trials were both events that left a mark in American history. The Red Scare began in 1917 and took place across the United States. The Red Scare was known as the widespread promotion of anti-communism. The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and took place in Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials were various court hearings and prosecutions of people in Salem accused of Witchcraft. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play about The Salem Witch Trials, to send a message to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the face of The Red Scare. Even though both of these events took place at completely different times their connection remains profound. The Crucible and The Red Scare have various similarities and allegories that make both of these events connect despite the gap of time.

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. This play takes place in Salem, Massachusets during the time of he famous Salem Witch Trials. However, this play is an allegory which Miller used as a way to mock a Senator at the time, Joseph McCarthy. The Red Scare was a time during the Cold War when the U.S. when into a frenzy trying to find and improsion any communist. Unfortunitly for Miller some of his friends had communist views and Miller was jailed because of it. While in jail McCarthy came to Miller and told him he would be freed if he told the names of the communist he knew. These communist being Millers friends, he did not give any names to McCarthy. After eventually being freed, Miller was outraged and needed a way to write about what had happened. Miller used the connection between the Witch Trials and the Red Scare to write The Crucible. He mocked all of the government officials by showing them that they are no better than the townspeople of Massachusetts in 1690.

In the 1950’s, communism runs rampant in America, people are getting accused left and right for being against America and those who are caught have to name names of those who are also supposed to be communists. The House Of Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C)officials would say, “Tell me who was with you and confess yourself as a communist, or else.” Reflect back to 1692 in Massachusetts, when witches scorn the town of Salem and it seems as if everybody is a witch. Judges would order, “Tell me who you saw with the devil, confess your sins to God and tell us who was with you or be hanged!” There are several parallels between Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and The Red Scare of the 1950’s due to the

Arthur Miller used the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible as an allegory for the mass hysteria he witnessed in his time through McCarthyism and the Red Scare. McCarthyism, named fairly enough after its instigator Senator Joseph McCarthy, swept the nation into a panic during the 1950’s, and ignited a unique witch hunt, though not an unfamiliar one to the American people: a

It is clear that Arthur Miller has based his play The Crucible on the acts of the McCarthy hearings. During his time, he witnessed the Red Scare and became curious on the subject of the witch trials happening in Salem. After much research, and realizing the similarities between the two, he then wrote his play. Throughout each act we see that there are many similarities in the way the witchcraft accusations were comparable to the communist accusations. The culmination in Act IV can also be drastically compared to the Red Scare, which ended up taking a turn.

The Crucible is a play that explains the story the Salem Witch trials. Arthur Miller, is the author of this play. McCarthyism played a big role in the creation of The Crucible. Many differences and similarities were drawn between the play and the Red Scare.

In his play The Crucible, published in 1953, writer Arthur Miller used the time period of the Puritans to convey his warning about the McCarthy era. Through his dramatization of various conflicts within the Salem community, Miller opened the Twentieth Century eyes to the witch hunt conducted by Senator Joe McCarthy. Using the motifs of power struggles, accusations, and confessions depicted the conflicts between Abigail and Mary Warren, John Proctor and himself, Reverend Hale and Parris and Tituba to convey the theme that fear makes people believe and do things they normally would not do.

The Red Scare and McCarthyism are backbones for how the story, “The Crucible” was written. The author of the story, Arthur Miller, was accused of being a communist during the Red Scare. Just like the Red Scare and McCarthyism, “The Crucible” is a story about people being accused of witchcraft and the events that take place because of the accusations. These rumors about people are with no evidence at all. The rumors cause people to go to jail or get hung, such as Tituba, who gets jailed, and John Proctor, who gets was hung. As a result, the rumors about Tituba being of being a witch, Martha Corey being a witch, and Elizabeth Proctor

Beginning of both The Crucible and The Red Scare both caused a huge amount of hysteria in how they both started. The forest in this time was considered the “devil's playground” so people would do unholy things like dance or practice witchcraft. So after Abagail and a lot of other girls went into the woods to conjure spirits and dance which was considered to be unholy and the work of the devil. Then Reverend Parris the uncle of Abigail and father of another girl there Betty came out of a hidden bush scattering all of the girls and causing Betty to faint out of fear and then he begins questioning Abigail

The world-shaking play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, was written as an allusion to the McCarthy trials, also known as the Red Scare due to its involvement with communism accusations. The play depicts a handful of middle school aged girls who accuse other people in the town of witch craft with no evidence to support their claims. Because of the substantial amount of people accused, Massachusetts created a special court to handle to trails: The Court of Oyer and Terminer. This court convicted innocent people convicted of “signing in the Devil’s book” with only spectral evidence to support the claims, an injustice also seen during the McCarthy trials. The similarity between the two trials in American history is uncanny and Arthur Miller does a wonderful job in illustrating those similarities and the feelings of both the 1690s and of the 1950s.

Witch hunts are nothing new to humanity. Throughout human history, there have been countless instances of how mass hysteria rippled through society. From the famous Salem witch trials to the Red Scare of the 1950s, and even in the Hundred Flowers Campaign, collective hysteria has been shown to decimate entire populations, even in the modern-day world.