Examples Of Allegory In The Crucible

The crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the red scare in the McCarthy era because fear, Intimidation, and Deception played bigger roles in these Stories. Because of the crucible focusing on the inconsistencies of the salem witch trials and whole cause of McCarthyism was having a witch hunt for people involved in communistic activities it plots a point that through manipulation and disloyalty the trials served as an explanation of how people’s beliefs burns away the outer shells to reveal their true intentions and character beneath and how people see them after all is concluded. “Like the american people, the town folk of salem were willing to believe that there were witches in their town since witchcraft had just been discovered

However, we have not only repeated it on various occasions, but through Arthur Miller's The Crucible, we also see the parallel of the event with the Salem Witch hunts that took place years before the hearings. “Witchcraft began in many ways during the 1960’s, but according to the story, the hysteria over witches in salem began innocently enough with the play of young girls” (“Overview: The Crucible” 2). Many innocent people during the 1960’s were accused of witchcraft, and many were executed. This was due to the fact that the accusations in salem were made chiefly and at first by young women and girls who protected themselves from charges of witchcraft and lewdness by accusing others; later accusations were made by those who themselves had been accused and confessed to witchcraft in order to save themselves from the

McCarthy was able to pass the McCarran International Security Act required that all members of the communist-front organizations reveal their membership. “John Proctor was your everyday man. He was a farmer, he claimed to be Godly though he was said to never attend church. Not attending church then was very frowned upon and even considered a horrible sin.” Abigail did things to get revenge because Elizabeth fired her because Abigail had an affair with John and didn’t want to confess to being associated with the Devil because it was not true and he did not want shame brought to his