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A main theme portrayed all throughout The Crucible: Belief vs Truth. The Puritans would rather do what their religion says than to open their eyes and accept the truth, and it’s because of that-that so many are killed. This is similar to McCarthyism in the 1950s. Senator McCarthy was out to expose all members of the communist party. However, apparently the real communists weren’t enough once he started blacklisting famous people that he only thought were communists. That’s where the similarities happen. In both The Crucible, and 1950s McCarthyism, both consist of faulty accusations due to beliefs. No one was going to stand up up to McCarthy out of fear of being accused; no one stood up to the court out of fear of being accused. Like Hall says in the play, “You [Tituba] must give us all their names.” The accused had to give names, so they wouldn’t get hung, or in McCarthyism’s case-get blacklisted. Naturally, many named completely innocent people to save themselves. Being put on a blacklist was like a reputational homicide; communists were considered “the devil” during the Red Scare. All types of people were considered …show more content…
The Puritans only see things in black or white, of the devil or holy. Similar in McCarthyist times, there was no inbetween, only pro-communist or pro-america. If you weren’t against one, then you were the other. In play, when Betty whimpers at the name of Jesus, Rebecca realizes that supernatural conflict is rooted in human nature, and not the other way around, because she believes this- she says that all Betty needs is a mother’s touch. However, Mrs. Putnam jumps to conclusions that Betty is with the devil. This plays a lot into the belief vs truth because, they believed that there was no gray, only black and white and they refused to believe anything else. Because you don’t attend church-it makes you a witch, and because you have liberal beliefs-it makes you a
A main theme portrayed all throughout The Crucible: Belief vs Truth. The Puritans would rather do what their religion says than to open their eyes and accept the truth, and it’s because of that-that so many are killed. This is similar to McCarthyism in the 1950s. Senator McCarthy was out to expose all members of the communist party. However, apparently the real communists weren’t enough once he started blacklisting famous people that he only thought were communists. That’s where the similarities happen. In both The Crucible, and 1950s McCarthyism, both consist of faulty accusations due to beliefs. No one was going to stand up up to McCarthy out of fear of being accused; no one stood up to the court out of fear of being accused. Like Hall says in the play, “You [Tituba] must give us all their names.” The accused had to give names, so they wouldn’t get hung, or in McCarthyism’s case-get blacklisted. Naturally, many named completely innocent people to save themselves. Being put on a blacklist was like a reputational homicide; communists were considered “the devil” during the Red Scare. All types of people were considered …show more content…
The Puritans only see things in black or white, of the devil or holy. Similar in McCarthyist times, there was no inbetween, only pro-communist or pro-america. If you weren’t against one, then you were the other. In play, when Betty whimpers at the name of Jesus, Rebecca realizes that supernatural conflict is rooted in human nature, and not the other way around, because she believes this- she says that all Betty needs is a mother’s touch. However, Mrs. Putnam jumps to conclusions that Betty is with the devil. This plays a lot into the belief vs truth because, they believed that there was no gray, only black and white and they refused to believe anything else. Because you don’t attend church-it makes you a witch, and because you have liberal beliefs-it makes you a