McCarthyism

Next, this different justice is the modification within the standing of women and also the validating of patriarchy. The only real purpose of the previous revenge ethic was to defend the holiness of the filial bond, clearly declared by the Furies once they catch up with Orestes at Athena's shrine: "Every mortal who outraged god or guest or loving parent: / each receives the pain his pains exact" (Eumenides, 269-70). Clytemnestra does not invite the wrath of the Furies for killing Agamemnon, for"…

History: Analogies of Witch Hunts and McCarthyism Going through high school in my small hometown, I would always hear about McCarthyism, or the Second Red Scare, in a poor context. One common analogy I heard was connecting McCarthyism to the witch hunts that I would hear about from the medieval period. This shows a bias has been developed against the topic and is now ingrained into society. To examine this topic I looked at sources involving both McCarthyism and the witch hunts. While the witch…

America’s Crucible: Witches and Communists on TrialArthur Miller was widely successful in connecting the past Salem Witch Trials with the era of McCarthyism he lived in. The witch trials and McCarthyism were both times in America’s past that irrational fear led to paranoia and mass hysteria. Both of these events were practices of accusing someone of either being a witch or of having communist ties, with no substantially justified evidence. Arthur Miller demonstrates this success with his play,…

are portrayed the same way. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the powerful role of female characters such as Abigail Williams, Tituba and Mary Warren portray their own example of McCarthyism, proving that their actions shape the plot of the play. Abigail Williams plays the role of accuser as she uses her own form of McCarthyism to persuade the people of the village in her favor. For example, when talking to John Proctor, she states that “She (Elizabeth) is blackening my name… John, pity me, pity…

the United States. Ever since then, Americans have been fearful of additional attacks of terror taking place on their homeland. Unfortunately, this is not the only incident in history that frightened citizens of the United States. In the 1900s, McCarthyism caught the attention of many…

Appeal for McCarthyism in the Cold War In the era following World War II, tensions between the United States and Soviet Russia were at their highest. Americans were on constant alert for an imminent nuclear war outbreak. This constant threat caused many Americans to become frightened. McCarthy gave people a relief to their stress, by giving them the belief that the government was successfully hunting down and capturing communists, and that McCarthy’s actions were preventing a war. In addition,…

and 1950’s was the fear of Communism. In the year 1950, the term “McCarthyism” was created by Herbert Block, a writer from the Washington Post, that described it as “ the practice of attempting to minimize the threat of Communism by accusing and detaining…

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. This political idea is similar to The Crucible because Salem established itself as a religious community in the midst of evil, which was surrounded…

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, he explains to his readers about the seventeenth century and how people were convicted for witchcraft, which led to the hanging of many women and few men. This play takes place in a small village in eastern Massachusetts. Many young girls were discovered dancing and playing of “magic” in the forest with a West Indian Slave, Tituba. During the seventeenth century, many people were convicted for so many different things and they were penalized to death or…

In early America, McCarthyism was a broad and tenacious practice. The practice resulted in the many accusations of other people in the United States, without proper regard for evidence. In the story The Crucible, which was written by Arthur Miller in 1953, an allegory of McCarthyism was displayed, along with a dramatized story line. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. In the novel, Abigail Williams acts as a selfish and manipulative conformist in Salem. Abigail clings to…