Persecution In The Crucible

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Persecution against American Muslims have soared to an all time high after 9/11 attacks.
In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible people are persecuted for “conspiring with the devil”. In the play, the minority is sought out and persecuted. This play was meant to represent the Red Scare in the 1950’s. The minority is sought out, oppressed, and treated unfairly by the authority. To accomplish my purpose of showing this of happening, I will describe the likenesses and differences between The Crucible, The Red Scare, and modern day Islamaphobia.
Throughout humans being in existence, there has been persecution. Specifically in The Crucible, people are sought out and accused of conspiring with the devil. The accusers in this play have no real evidence and they us spectral
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One of the main differences and what people are being accused of. In The Crucible, people are accused of witchcraft. In the Red Scare, it is communism and in Islamaphobia, it could be from terrorism or just being Muslim. In the Red Scare and Islam, only a small percentage are communists or terrorists. The punishment of witchcraft in The Crucible was death by hanging or confessing to being a witch. If convicted of communism during the Red Scare you were barred or excluded from work, social events, and/ or society. Accusations were made against people that others didn’t like or saw as a threat, most of the accusations made were false. If you were found suspicious of committing a terror crime as a Muslim in any way, you would be arrested unjustly possibly without proof, sent to a jail(possibly tortured for information), and/or deported out of the countries in the west. The downfall of the accusations were people pointing fingers at innocent people who had no threat. In the play, people accused people who have never committed a crime or sinned in their life. In the Red Scare, McCarthy started pointing fingers at allies and people began to stop

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