Without provided evidence, one claim changes everything. Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, made false unsubstantiated claims that more than 200 "card carrying" members of the Communist party infiltrated the United States government. Miller especially showed this with “public interventions—his displays of “social conscience”—bore the mark of his experiences with The Crucible. And why not? He writes an allegory about the House Un-American Activities Committee and is instantly hailed as a martyr, saint, genius, hero, and demigod. The Left loved Arthur Miller because he helped codify and perpetuate one of their dearest myths—the myth of McCarthyism.(Miller, 2005)” Miller used The Crucible to show the fear of communism created by the 1950 Red Scare.
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In The Crucible Elizabeth expresses her fear for the “ Fourteen people in jail” because “ they’ll be tried and the court” obtains “the power to hang them” (Miller 52). Arthur Miller also expressed his concern for the many celebrities pulled before the House Committee on Un-American activities due to their accusations of communism which directly parallels those brought before the court during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Because of the fear brought upon people, false confessions arose.
During this time, people also confessed to “crimes” they never committed. Reverend Parris, the acting government in Salem, threatens Tituba, a slave from barbados to “confess” to witchcraft “or he will take her out and whip her to her death” (Miller 44). In 1950’s The House Committee on Un-American activities blacklisted and threatened those accused of Communism to confess in the same way that the government of Salem threatened those accused of witchcraft. In The Crucible, the accused and the court
In The Crucible Elizabeth expresses her fear for the “ Fourteen people in jail” because “ they’ll be tried and the court” obtains “the power to hang them” (Miller 52). Arthur Miller also expressed his concern for the many celebrities pulled before the House Committee on Un-American activities due to their accusations of communism which directly parallels those brought before the court during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Because of the fear brought upon people, false confessions arose.
During this time, people also confessed to “crimes” they never committed. Reverend Parris, the acting government in Salem, threatens Tituba, a slave from barbados to “confess” to witchcraft “or he will take her out and whip her to her death” (Miller 44). In 1950’s The House Committee on Un-American activities blacklisted and threatened those accused of Communism to confess in the same way that the government of Salem threatened those accused of witchcraft. In The Crucible, the accused and the court