Have you ever had to lie in order to save your life? For most people the answer would be no but unfortunately here in the U.S in the 50’s and in 1692 the answer could have been yes. During these times McCarthyism took place and Salem witch trials. People were falsely accused of being communists or witches, and frankly it was poor evidence. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the McCarthy era because innocent people were being accused using poor evidence, feared being put on biased trials, and were punished for crimes not committed.
The first reason that The Crucible is an allegory for the McCarthy era is during both times there were accusations that were backed up with poor evidence. People in the McCarthy era were being accused and deported, this was violating people’s rights, especially since they were only suspected of being communists. As stated in the article American Communism, “However many people had their civil liberties violated, and approximately a thousand people were deported by the government for being suspected communists.” McCarthy was accusing people and they were being deported when the accusation did not have strong evidence proving they were communists. This connects to how the girls’ accusations were accepted without …show more content…
As told in the excerpt from Arthur Miller’s essay Are you now or were you ever, “I saw there was something of the marvelous in the spectacle of a whole village, if not an entire province, whose imagination was captured by a vision of something that wasn’t there.” This applies to both the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy era; the suspected communists and witches were accused with evidence that really wasn’t there but imagined. It wasn’t exactly imagined, but it was evidence that was being twisted to be something that it wasn’t; an example being if they threw a supposed witch into water and they floated they were a witch for
The first reason that The Crucible is an allegory for the McCarthy era is during both times there were accusations that were backed up with poor evidence. People in the McCarthy era were being accused and deported, this was violating people’s rights, especially since they were only suspected of being communists. As stated in the article American Communism, “However many people had their civil liberties violated, and approximately a thousand people were deported by the government for being suspected communists.” McCarthy was accusing people and they were being deported when the accusation did not have strong evidence proving they were communists. This connects to how the girls’ accusations were accepted without …show more content…
As told in the excerpt from Arthur Miller’s essay Are you now or were you ever, “I saw there was something of the marvelous in the spectacle of a whole village, if not an entire province, whose imagination was captured by a vision of something that wasn’t there.” This applies to both the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy era; the suspected communists and witches were accused with evidence that really wasn’t there but imagined. It wasn’t exactly imagined, but it was evidence that was being twisted to be something that it wasn’t; an example being if they threw a supposed witch into water and they floated they were a witch for