The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller in 1953 as a counterattack for being forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, at the height of the Red Scare era. The Crucible, is about the Salem witch trials and how people accused each other of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, without having proper evidence. In many of the cases people were accusing others solely because they disliked them. Much similar to The Red Scare, an era of mass hysteria in which people became obsessed and paranoid over communism in the United States. In The Crucible, people were being accused of witchcraft, and during the Red Scare people were being accused of communism. In both, people who were a victim of any of these false accusations
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The accusations of witchcraft in Salem brought many people fear and outrage. People were falsely accused with improper evidence and were almost always forced to confess as guilty. Anyone and everyone could be accused of witchcraft and it brought fear because people didn't know when or if they were going to be the next one accused. Once you were accused there was no easy way out “The only way the accused can save themselves from the gallows is by confessing to having engaged in witchcraft, by naming names of others so engaged, and by begging to receive God's light once again”. Many people went out of their comfort zone and falsely accused others knowing they were innocent just for the hope of being …show more content…
Irony is a well displayed theme in The Crucible because the people who believe they are combating the Devil’s handiwork, which is witchcraft, actually perform it themselves but in a different matter. People are accusing each other to try to purify and expel the bad in the town, but they are actually using lies and self interest to get it, which is the opposite of what they are trying to combat. This is when the town slips in hysteria and chaos. Also, Salem’s court attempts to keep Puritan morality by arresting and executing accused witches and ironically leads to the removal of the most virtuous people from society. The people that were viewed as being the most “pure” and “good” ended up being the exact
The accusations of witchcraft in Salem brought many people fear and outrage. People were falsely accused with improper evidence and were almost always forced to confess as guilty. Anyone and everyone could be accused of witchcraft and it brought fear because people didn't know when or if they were going to be the next one accused. Once you were accused there was no easy way out “The only way the accused can save themselves from the gallows is by confessing to having engaged in witchcraft, by naming names of others so engaged, and by begging to receive God's light once again”. Many people went out of their comfort zone and falsely accused others knowing they were innocent just for the hope of being …show more content…
Irony is a well displayed theme in The Crucible because the people who believe they are combating the Devil’s handiwork, which is witchcraft, actually perform it themselves but in a different matter. People are accusing each other to try to purify and expel the bad in the town, but they are actually using lies and self interest to get it, which is the opposite of what they are trying to combat. This is when the town slips in hysteria and chaos. Also, Salem’s court attempts to keep Puritan morality by arresting and executing accused witches and ironically leads to the removal of the most virtuous people from society. The people that were viewed as being the most “pure” and “good” ended up being the exact