Fear can impact and control you making you do things that you shouldn’t be doing. What is fear? Fear can be used in many ways in movies, plays, and real life. People either fear too much or not much in today’s society. As in Good Night and Good Luck and The Crucible, fear was a factor in both Salem witch trials and the search for the communist the in 1950s, it is still a factor in today’s society.
In Good Night and Good Luck, people feared being accused of being communist. They feared this because they didn’t want to lose their jobs and friends. McCarthy and his committee were on the hunt for communists trying to ruin the United States government. Nobody wanted to interfere with McCarthy because they may get accused of being communist. In the movie Milo Radulovich is dismissed from the Air Force because his father has communist ties and he is a security risk. The CBS workers had to do a loyalty oath …show more content…
The year 1692 will always be a historic year in Salem, Massachusetts. It was the rise of witchcraft, when people feared that they will be accused of witchcraft by Abigail and her group. If they got accused of witchcraft they would have to accuse someone else or be hanged. In The Crucible, Tituba was afraid of being hanged because Abigail and her group accused her; they stopped torturing her when she confessed that she was a witch and accused Goody Good and Sarah Osburn. Abigail fears that she might be caught for doing witchcraft and she will get tortured, therefore she accused people. If you told the judges that you are a witch and accused other people you wouldn’t get in trouble. In the play Reverent Parris is scared of his reputation being ruined because he’s the head preacher in the town, and doesn’t want to lose his job. People were careful of what they did. If something unusual happened and someone caught then, they would get accused of
In Good Night and Good Luck, people feared being accused of being communist. They feared this because they didn’t want to lose their jobs and friends. McCarthy and his committee were on the hunt for communists trying to ruin the United States government. Nobody wanted to interfere with McCarthy because they may get accused of being communist. In the movie Milo Radulovich is dismissed from the Air Force because his father has communist ties and he is a security risk. The CBS workers had to do a loyalty oath …show more content…
The year 1692 will always be a historic year in Salem, Massachusetts. It was the rise of witchcraft, when people feared that they will be accused of witchcraft by Abigail and her group. If they got accused of witchcraft they would have to accuse someone else or be hanged. In The Crucible, Tituba was afraid of being hanged because Abigail and her group accused her; they stopped torturing her when she confessed that she was a witch and accused Goody Good and Sarah Osburn. Abigail fears that she might be caught for doing witchcraft and she will get tortured, therefore she accused people. If you told the judges that you are a witch and accused other people you wouldn’t get in trouble. In the play Reverent Parris is scared of his reputation being ruined because he’s the head preacher in the town, and doesn’t want to lose his job. People were careful of what they did. If something unusual happened and someone caught then, they would get accused of