How Is The Red Scare Related To The Crucible

Power in the wrong hands can be disastrous and cause many consequences like the invasion of privacy, false accusations, and even the death of some people. An excess of power has been used throughout time in such places and events like the Salem witch trials in Salem Massachusetts, the Red Scare in the United States during the late 1940’s and early 50’s, and the government secretly hacking into our everyday appliances. There are many similarities between the salem witch trials in which many people were falsely accused of being witches and later hanged, the red scare where McCarthy would go after people who may work for the communist country Russia, and how the CIA may be watching us in suspicion of terrorist breeches in the US.
Arthur Miller’s purpose for writing, The Crucible, a play is to depict how little problems can cause

Senator Joseph McCarthy was the face of the Red Scare, accusing many for being communist. He grew with great power in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s He would go after the people in the State department. Not only would he go after the state department, but he would go after the US Army and started interrogating soldiers and accusing them of being communist. The Hollywood Film industry was also heavily targeted accusing many actors, writers, and producers. This ruined many people’s reputation and career. What makes it interesting is the fact that during WWII the Soviet Union would have already breech national security having spies in the US with the help of many american civilians. J. Edgar Hoover had an agency that did extensive files on suspects by the use of wiretapping, surveillance, and the infiltration of the leftist group. This was a huge amount of excess power in the government. In the end of the Red Scare only two people were executed. Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage in 1951 and executed a year