Allegory In The Crucible

Imagine you are living a normal life. Now imagine one day waking up and being accused of something you did not do and you were telling the people the truth, but they were not believing you. The crucible is about innocent people being accused of witchcraft in salem in the 1950s.
The crucible by arthur miller is an allegory for the mccarthy era because there were false accusation, fear in the society and, how they control the government. The false accusation is really important to this book because that is how innocent people were getting their lives taken away from them. How the crucible started was three servent that were dancing in the woods at midnight outside of salem, Abigail, Betty and Tituba. When they came out of the woods betty lost consciousness. When the doctor griggs came into town he mention witchcraft. The girls lied about what they were doing in the woods which lead to false accusation. Abigail -“She sends her spirit on me in church, she makes me laugh at prayer!.”(act one).In the book abigail acting like betty is telling her what to do and pretending she see betty as a witch. Abigail has got herself so far deep in all the lies, she try to save herself from not being accused of witchcraft, at …show more content…
During witchcraft there was nineteen men and women being but on trails. Most of the fear in the society was not knowing what would happen if there was actually witchcraft in salem. Or if people that were innocent accused of witchcraft feared that if the government didn't believe that they didnt do anything they feared about the punishment the government would make them do. Hale - “ why- why did you keep this.” Proctor- “ I never knew until tonight that the world is gone daft with nonsense” ( Act two pg 65).Hale and Proctor are talking about how the lie are getting out and how everyone is acting out and lying to save their