Similarities Between The Red Scare And The Crucible

The Red Scare and The Crucible Backstabbing is the most painful thing you could emotionally feel. It was a common occurrence when it was displayed in The Crucible and during the Red Scare. People would walk around on a daily basis with a knife to their throats and were watched every day on what they would say. One slip up and their lives and careers could and would have been ruined. Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, and the time of the Red Scare show many instances of it. Miller compared the Salem Witch Trials to The Red Scare and their traits of lies and corruption, fear, and manipulation.
In the play, the locals are scared that the Devil lurks in the trees surrounding their town and is waiting for a chance to pounce on the locals. It is

Arthur wrote about many instances of lying many times throughout the story. One of those lies was at the beginning of the story when Parris confronted Abigail about a naked girl in the woods. “No one was naked! You mistake yourself, uncle!” (11). That’s a lie as well as gaslighting Parris into believing that he was, in fact, seeing things. Corruption played a key part in the play, whether it was Abigail, the court, or the whole town, they all showed examples of corruption and dishonesty. The court accused people of witchcraft without proper evidence and cruel court cases, Abigail gained power and proceeded in misusing that power to cover her tail, and the town let the power of getting what they wanted and proceeded to accusing neighbors of killing plants and animals to have personal

John Garfield was a famous actor during the time of the red scare, mostly known for movies such as, “They Made Me a Criminal” (1939), and “Juarez” (1939). He made a net worth of 12 million dollars, 3 children, a spouse he loved dearly, and a very massive home. But he lost almost all of that when he was blacklisted for being accused of a communist and when called in to testify against people for his safety, he chose not to. It’s been rumored that he later passed away due to a heart attack because of the stress of the persecution at age 39. Charlie Chaplin was another actor who was blacklisted until testimony, he was one of the very few actors during the time that went in and testified. His testimony proved that he appeared to not have any ties with communism, unfortunately, the 56 years he was blacklisted had a very negative impact on his health, both mental and physical. Charlie died at age 88 his last words being, “why not? It all belongs to him.” After being told by a priest, “may the lord have mercy on your