McCarthyism

Fear specifically is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Throughout the history of man, fear has remarkably had a prominent effect on the actions of many: used by dictators as a tactic to control, used in politics and religion to manipulate people’s positions. Fear materializes to the world in many forms; basic fears akin to those of spiders or heights, to more complex fears that are deep-rooted, like…

Imagine one day everything was lost. Jobs, reputation, friends, life as it is, gone. The unbelievably true Salem Witchcraft Trials is an allegory to the Red Scare in many ways. An allegory is a story that helps to better understand an event with a deeper meaning. The Salem Witchcraft trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Word started going around that witches were making people do some odd things. People started getting accused of a crime they didn’t commit. They could admit to…

Mob Hysteria is defined as the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd. There have been many outbreaks of Mob Hysteria in history. For example, just recently, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri created mob hysteria that spread like a wildfire throughout the city. Blacks in the city became scared and angry; they started riots, burned buildings, and vandalized. The Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era are two more instances of Mob…

Joseph McCarthy was was born in 1908 in the Town of Grand Chute in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. McCarthy was an American Politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until 1957. McCarthy died on May 2, 1957 the cause for his death was acute hepatitis. In the 1950’s, the Red Scare was fueled by right-wing charges concerning American communists, communist sympathizers, citizens who were thought to be unwittingly assisting the communist native attempts to achieve…

In life, there is that tendency to ruin the good things one has going on in their lives when they become more successful than they already are. People become inundated with the joy and achievement that they begin to act irresponsibly. A great thing such as winning the lottery can bring cheerfulness and satisfaction into one’s life but, on the other hand, this great thing can also become a complete nightmare. In most cases, when one goes from being extremely poor to being exceptionally rich, it…

In the poems “Medusa” by Duffy and “The Laboratory” by Browning both authors explore the theme of jealousy and its destructive nature on people and society as a whole. In Duffy’s poem “Medusa” she critiques society on its treatment towards women, demonstrating how those without beauty are only corrupted with jealousy and how this behavior has survived through the ages. While Duffy focuses on the impacts of jealousy on the individual Browning looks towards its impacts on society, and its power to…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is one of the most famous American plays in the last hundred years. It was written in the 1950s when the idea of Communists during the Cold War were being compared to witches during the Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller wrote the play to warn the people of America of the misinformation they were being fed by the government. He used the Salem Witch Trials as a comparison to what was happening, and people understood. Since the creation of this work, there have been…

Joseph Stalin’s Purges were successful in the murder of over 20 million Russian citizens, including, one-third of the Communist party as well as 90% of all generals and 80% of all colonels in the Red Army. The NKVD was a major force during the Purges, they were the ones who rounded up and executed those who were determined to be enemies of the people. One of the reasons that the NKVD was so successful was their ability to infiltrate regular Russian society, children in schools were encouraged by…

It is not rare that an athlete breaks his record newly during a certain period continuously in the athletic world. Indeed, the same thing happens in a literary planet as well. Shigeharu Nakano was a Japanese author and Communist Party politician, and also a top runner of the age for the youth that began to open their eyes with Marxism through the literary world. Because those people who came to the stage already despaired all the Japanese existed, besides for them the death of Akutagawa was…

In this short play, “Good Night, and Good Luck.” based off the CBS news show See It Now in 1954 that was later made into a movie directed by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy makes a rebuttal to the statements said by newscaster Edward R. Murrow about McCarthy. Murrow stated that his methods towards Communists were unfair and unethical. Murrow did not agree with McCarthy, he believed in the something completely different. Murrow shared this belief, going against…