Would you stand up for what is morally right, or would you do what is needed to be in the least amount of trouble as possible? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, we see the war between right and wrong. The Crucible shows us how people of higher power, such as judges or people who are in a government position, can be hard to stand up against when you are faced with death for something the court is not being fair to you about. When faced with something so unfair with such a poor one sided trial, it is easy to see how someone will take the easy way out in order to not face death. In the case of The Crucible, the court was trying to convict people of witchcraft after accusations from some girls who were caught dancing. The court would not give anyone a proper trial, instead you either admitted to witchcraft and went to jail or you were hanged if you did not confess. This chain of jail or murder was not stopped
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The Crucible tells about the Salem witch trials, which the reader can see as relating back to the red scare. These two events are relate to one another in the way that during the Salem witch trials people feared witches and being accused as a witch, just as in the 1950’s Red Scare people feared communism and being accused as a communist. In The Crucible the reader may also see how what the judges were doing can be seen as a form of McCarthyism. The way that people would be accused and the court would force them to confess or face death in The Crucible is the same way McCarthyism would take someone who is accused of communist acts and give them an unfair trial leading to them being guilty with little evidence. So seeing John Proctor stand up to the court for what is right can really connect with the reader seeing that history can repeat itself and people need to stand up against these kind of
The Crucible tells about the Salem witch trials, which the reader can see as relating back to the red scare. These two events are relate to one another in the way that during the Salem witch trials people feared witches and being accused as a witch, just as in the 1950’s Red Scare people feared communism and being accused as a communist. In The Crucible the reader may also see how what the judges were doing can be seen as a form of McCarthyism. The way that people would be accused and the court would force them to confess or face death in The Crucible is the same way McCarthyism would take someone who is accused of communist acts and give them an unfair trial leading to them being guilty with little evidence. So seeing John Proctor stand up to the court for what is right can really connect with the reader seeing that history can repeat itself and people need to stand up against these kind of