Similarities Between Mccarthyism And The Red Scare

In the spring of the early 50s John McCarthy would go around America accusing innocent people of being communist spies. This era would be named McCarthyism and the red scare was also part of this era. This would set the stage for a story down the road. The crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the red scare in the McCarthy era because of the false accusations, general hysteria among the townspeople, and proving of injusticing by authority/ accuser. Enter John McCarthy who first started his false accusations of supposed communists in America in the state of Wheeling, Virginia. In the early 1950s McCarthy, as aforementioned, would publicly speak in the state of Virginia asserting a list of of over 200 names of

From Abigail: “I want to open myself! They turn to her, startled. She is enraptured, as though in a pearly light. I want the light of god , I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil ! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” (Miller 45) Exactly like McCarthy she falsely accuses some of the townspeople, this is so she can get closer to John Proctor, her old

“ This is a clear attack upon the court!... I think they ought to be examined”(Miller 81), this really represents how McCarthy was really never investigated during the red scare and was just allowed free reign to persecute and search people of the government and who he thought would be on the list, it is really prevalent to the story cause both shows a higher power using their authority without anyone being able to