Role Of Joseph Mccarthyism In The Crucible

From 1950 to 1956, America’s experience of fear began what we still fear today: communism. The Cold War entertained this “virus”, the fear of communism, which settled into the Americans. Politicians and citizens of the United States began questioning who they hold close to trust and how they determined to classify the people who sided against the American dream, and their winning in the war. They searched for things to prove if you sided with communists or not. This sounds like something else that existed in American history: The Crucible. The play is about a city, Salem Massachusetts, in 1692. Written by Arthur Miller, who identified with and then inspired during the Cold War to make sense of what Joseph McCarthy and other politicians persisting. Joseph McCarthy, Republican U.S. Senator, represent among many who spoke of fear of communism, eventually taking over the United States. He began accusing many of being communists. This reflects in The Crucible by Abigail Williams and the other girls in the city claiming that other women there who occupied with the Devil and supposedly practicing witchcraft.

I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”(Miller, 48). This made many people in the town victims to these girls words, hard to prove otherwise, whether or not they linger with the Devil or practicing witchcraft. This goes in hand with the fact that Joseph McCarthy would point fingers at other politicians, saying that they had signs that may involve being communist. This, however, transpired in a lot of cases hard to prove, because many people failed to explain what exactly made up a communist, or how you could tell the difference. Following the fact that this would make everyone fear, for that the capitalist country that we have would be overthrown by