William Deveney 1
Mr. Moyer
English 9
1-18-23
The Crucible and McCarthyism Allegories Connect the Two
In the book, The Crucible by Aurthur Miller shows how times can change. Time can change because John Proctor is a man who has a wife in the 1692 time period when the Salem witch trials are happening and John Proctor committed adultery with Abigail Williams and in that time period it's a big deal. McCarthyism is a time in the 1950s when people were falsely accusing people of treason. All of this text connects to
An example of a social message in Arthur Miller's book which is shown when Mrs Putnam accused Rebecca of killing her 8 babies. When Mrs. Putnam was at a meeting, Rebecca Nurse was there also, John Proctor was there too. Mrs. Putnam says ¨ I'm sick of meetings, cannot the man turn his head without having a meeting¨? Rebecca Nurse says ¨there is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it. Let us rather blame ourselves and—-¨. Mrs Putnam said ¨ How may we blame ourselves I am one of nine sons the putnam seed have populated this province. And yet I have one child left of eight–and now she shrivels¨ (Miller 28).
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Abigail says ¨tituba comes to me every night to go drink blood¨. Then Abigail says that ¨ sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body!¨ I always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing Barbados songs and tempting me to sing with her¨ (Miller