Salem Witch Trials And Mccarthyism In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Salem, Massachusetts declared itself as a religious community in while which evil was going on. Salem's people considered the forest the center of the Devil. Salem was surrounded by forest. The Crucible tells the story of three girls that danced in the center of the devil which in the long run causes a number of unfortunate events. Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, made false accusations that more than 200 card carrying members of the Communist party had went against The United States Government. He had no proof to back up what he was saying delusional girls make unsubstantiated claims about the existence of witches in Salem, and they are doing things to them. They have no proof. The witch trials and McCarthyism had a huge effect on the public

Abigail is jobless, heartbroken, and concerned about her reputation. Not only does she drink blood in the forest in a spell to get rid of Elizabeth, she goes to John, and begs him to come back to her. She cries, "I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!"(18) When John rejects her, Abigail thinks of another plan to steal his love and get Elizabeth out of the picture. After losing her parents in a Native American attack, Abigail is not about to lose John, too. Abigail accuses her of witchcraft, which results in the Elizabeth's arrest. This evidence shows the ends of extreme a young girl will go when she's afraid of being alone, she makes false accusations to have your significant other killed out arrested just so she can have the person she wants to herself. "Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy with the Communist Party USA or refusal to assist investigations into the party's activities." This piece of evidence shows that as well as the characters people during the McCarthyism was afraid of being alone, because they were removed from certain events and some people were even out of

This is a Puritan village so people that do this are not labeled eccentric; they are labeled witches and killed. Abigail has always been afraid of getting caught since the beginning of the play. To defend herself she starts the finger pointing at everyone else besides the ones who deserve it, which in this case is no one. Abigail was not to careful and this whole thing starts to come tumbling down on her which it almost does. It doesn't take long before John Proctor and a few other sane people are on to her. She constantly lives in fear until she finally runs away. " I think they [ Abigail and Mercy Lewis ] be aboard a ship... Thirty - one pond is gone." (117) This quote by Parris shows that the character Abigail was so afraid of getting caught she decided to just up and take off, you have to be self conscious to run away in the middle of a trial where you're the one accusing people, and it just came to be very convenient the time Abagail chose to leave. "When the accused invoked the Fifth Amendment to protect themselves, McCarthy said this act is "the most positive proof obtainable that the witness is Communist." This shows that as well people we're afraid of being caught in that time and they used their fifth amendment so they did not have to