The Salem Witch Craft was one of the main themes in the play “The Cruicible” by Author Miller. Injustice, inequity, and fear were experienced throughout colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The Salem Witch trials consisted of a series of hearings and prosecutions towards people accused of practising witchcraft. In order to survive; one would blame others for something they have not done. While the witchcraft was the biggest topic in the seventeenths century, McCarthyism was in the twentieths. McCarthyism was the fear of communism which spread across America in the 1950s. The hysteria of the American citizens was due to the threat that communism would spread across the globe. The government has accused many people of communism, …show more content…
This can be exemplified by many of the characters throughout the play, such as Abigail, Proctor, and Danforth, as they eventually ruin one another in the process. The chaos begins after the young girls were caught in the forest, dancing under the moonlight. The ritual that the girls have done, which included; drinking the chicken’s blood and boiling frogs, was to get rid of the Proctors wife, Elizabeth. Shortly after the girls got caught by the Abbigail’s uncle, Parris, they blamed everything on the Tituba, Parris’ slave, and the devils influence on them. Abbigail, and the rest of the girls begin to accuse innocent people for “sending the Devil” on them. Anyone in the community who acted out of order would get suspected of practising the witch craft, and would get killed immediately. “I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you…I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down “(P.19), Abbigail says, which contributes to the hysteria upon the abnormal actions of the girls. If one would deny the courts accusations, they would get suspected of being a witch and get executed right away. However, if one would confess their reputation, they would get ruined, but would stay