Have you ever wanted to know the Athour’s purpose of a writing? I wondered why Arthur Miller wrote the book “The Crucible” , so with research I discovered Miller’s reasoning of his writing of “The Crucible”
The Crucible was written in 1953. Is based on the Salem witch trials in the early 1600s . during this time there was big hysteria of witches . Delusional girls made unsubstantiated claims about the existence of witches in Salem. Townspeople are not willing to stand up to the court for fear of being accused of being a witch , because those who were accused of being witches lives were and lead to hostility to rise in Salem . Those who were incriminated were expected to confess and also were expected to accuse others of witchery . . Many of the accused reparations were annihilated or received the death penalty , though most of the people accused were wrongly accused . During the time period ‘The Crucible” was written , which is the 1950s , the paranoia that was out was red scare , which is the fear of communism spreading. Like the girls in the crucible , Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, made unsubstantiated claims that more than 200 "card carrying" members of the Communist party had infiltrated the United …show more content…
The media were not willing to stand up to Senator McCarthy for fear of being accused of being a Communist and townspeople are not willing to stand up to the court for fear of being accused of being a witch.Those who were accused were assumed guilty, put on trial, and expected to divulge the names of other Communist sympathizers , and also in “The Crucible” , the assumed guilty was put on trial were expected to confess and accuse others of being witches. And in both cases, failure to do so leads to terrible consequences .(Symbolism in the crucible & Similarities to McCarthyism by Trent Lorcher , BrightHubEducation.com
The Crucible was written in 1953. Is based on the Salem witch trials in the early 1600s . during this time there was big hysteria of witches . Delusional girls made unsubstantiated claims about the existence of witches in Salem. Townspeople are not willing to stand up to the court for fear of being accused of being a witch , because those who were accused of being witches lives were and lead to hostility to rise in Salem . Those who were incriminated were expected to confess and also were expected to accuse others of witchery . . Many of the accused reparations were annihilated or received the death penalty , though most of the people accused were wrongly accused . During the time period ‘The Crucible” was written , which is the 1950s , the paranoia that was out was red scare , which is the fear of communism spreading. Like the girls in the crucible , Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, made unsubstantiated claims that more than 200 "card carrying" members of the Communist party had infiltrated the United …show more content…
The media were not willing to stand up to Senator McCarthy for fear of being accused of being a Communist and townspeople are not willing to stand up to the court for fear of being accused of being a witch.Those who were accused were assumed guilty, put on trial, and expected to divulge the names of other Communist sympathizers , and also in “The Crucible” , the assumed guilty was put on trial were expected to confess and accuse others of being witches. And in both cases, failure to do so leads to terrible consequences .(Symbolism in the crucible & Similarities to McCarthyism by Trent Lorcher , BrightHubEducation.com