Comparing Mcarthyms And The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The Crucible and Mcarthyms share the same principles through the events and ideals upheld in their times; however, the parallelisms of one can be more dramatic than the other. The Crucible itself serves as an allegory to the 1950’s McCarthyism, which was named after Senator Joseph McCarthy's mission to expose and exile blacklist people associated with the Communist Party. Similarly, the Crucible by Arthur Miller reenacts the 1600’s Salem Witch trials where the town of Salem believed they were plagued with witchcraft, and attempted to eradicate everyone who was suspected of or accused of participating in any of these “evil” acts. Through the mass paranoia created in Salem and represented in the Crucible, the readers are able to understand how

I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!” (p104). Although these were not the only acts of rebellion during these times, it is evidence that there were some who were brave and refused to conform to injustice. The parallels that link these times together carry the same principle, but one may believe that the Crucible is fiction because it is so dramatized. These times stand as a milestone in history that we must not forget so that we the citizens will not lay down and conform to harsh and unjust reasoning from our superiors. It is a form of genocide and although it can be argued that the town feared their faith and thought they were plagued with evil spirits it gave no right to ordinary humans to sign away the lives of another. Correspondingly, in McCarthysim Americans feared their freedom and livelihood because they believed communists were taking over. Although it is justified for officials to protect our government,it did much harm because the innocent got punished with the