How does McCarthyism relate and effect The Crucible?
The Crucible is a famous play produced by Arthur Miller in 1953, which is about a witch hunt that took place in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, but Arthur Miller talks more about McCarthyism and Communism in 1950s in this play by founding many parallels between the House Un-American Activities Committee”s crusade against supposed communist sympathizers and the seventeenth- century witch-hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. So in fact, although The Crucible is a play about the Salem Trail, it is more about McCarthyism. And because of its history background, McCarthyism relates and effects The Crucible in many ways.
First of all, to make The Crucible have a stronger connection with McCarthyism, Arthur Miller fictionalizes the play, even though the play …show more content…
“ Miller was liberal in his fictionalization of those events. For example...; however, in real life Williams was probably about eleven at the time of the accusations and Proctor was over sixty,which makes is more unlikely that there was ever any such relationship....what I was doing was writing a fictional story about an important theme.” As everyone knows, the “important theme” that Arthur Miller was writing about was the “Red hunt” and McCarthyism. McCarthyism is term from Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Cold War, which destroys the Communist Party and threaten human rights. According to Stephanie Curiwick’s War and Red Scare 1940- 1960, “ World War II and them the Cold War dramatically affected the party’s fortunes.... Some of the Washington State leaders were imprisoned, other went underground”. And by comparing the Salem Trail and the Red Scare, people are all asked to testify against others. “ Expelled from the Communist
The Crucible is a famous play produced by Arthur Miller in 1953, which is about a witch hunt that took place in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, but Arthur Miller talks more about McCarthyism and Communism in 1950s in this play by founding many parallels between the House Un-American Activities Committee”s crusade against supposed communist sympathizers and the seventeenth- century witch-hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. So in fact, although The Crucible is a play about the Salem Trail, it is more about McCarthyism. And because of its history background, McCarthyism relates and effects The Crucible in many ways.
First of all, to make The Crucible have a stronger connection with McCarthyism, Arthur Miller fictionalizes the play, even though the play …show more content…
“ Miller was liberal in his fictionalization of those events. For example...; however, in real life Williams was probably about eleven at the time of the accusations and Proctor was over sixty,which makes is more unlikely that there was ever any such relationship....what I was doing was writing a fictional story about an important theme.” As everyone knows, the “important theme” that Arthur Miller was writing about was the “Red hunt” and McCarthyism. McCarthyism is term from Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Cold War, which destroys the Communist Party and threaten human rights. According to Stephanie Curiwick’s War and Red Scare 1940- 1960, “ World War II and them the Cold War dramatically affected the party’s fortunes.... Some of the Washington State leaders were imprisoned, other went underground”. And by comparing the Salem Trail and the Red Scare, people are all asked to testify against others. “ Expelled from the Communist