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    I think the story was more about delirium than extraordinary. The book depends on McCarthyism which occurred in the 1950"s that is likewise when the book was composed. McCarthyism occurred around the 1940's and 1950's many individuals at the time dreaded the infringement of socialism. The book was fundamentally the same as the McCarthyism, in the story the pot Salem built up itself as a religious group amidst malicious. In the pot there was young ladies who were whimsical and would make…

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    a rumor can be spread, rumors can come either out of imagination or hate towards one person. Many people come up with rumors to not only hurt somebody’s self esteem but it hurts the person image in the town, or place they live in. Whether it is Mccarthyism the Red Scare, or The Crucible all of these rumors show how people not only were affected by rumors but how certain people thought that it would be morally correct to accuse someone of something that they did not do, an instance that shows…

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    McCarthyism “Are you now, or have been, a member of the Communist party?” Many people stood before the court and had been asked this question. Why? In the 1950s a Senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy had feared the idea of communist infiltrating the United States during the Red Scare, a period in which many feared the growing of the communist party. In order to keep the communist out of the United States, Senator McCarthy had started a process to find them. This process became known as…

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    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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    erupted throughout the nation beginning during the cold war and lasted well into the 1960s. The face of this movement was Joseph McCarthy, a Republican Wisconsin senator, who’s movement and political tactics are now commonly referred to as a McCarthyism. McCarthyism is essentially the “use of indiscriminate, often unfounded accusations, inquisitorial…

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    and McCarthyism The Crucible is a modern day a parallelism to the events occurring within the United States after World War II. A rise of communism in many countries led to a fear of communists invading the United States, thus began the McCarthy trials. Within the contexts of The Crucible, the occurrences of the time affected the author’s writing by, give them a personal connection, inducing an opposition to the bigger powers within certain groups, influencing their themes around McCarthyism,…

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    reappeared during the McCarthyism era, for very similar reasons. So the question is, how much were these two time periods alike? The Crucible and McCarthyism are so similar, you would think witchery were involved. In both of these time periods, there was always someone who seemed to have a way with pointing fingers and naming names. In an excerpt from Hearings Before the House…

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    When one thinks of "McCarthyism", They imagine the term that one regularly catches wind of when talking about the Cold War. Nonetheless, what is it and how profoundly would it say it was established in American society? This exploration paper delves into the theme of Joseph McCarthy, his "- ism," and the numerous occasions in America that included McCarthyism. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, was a United States congressman hailing from Wisconsin. Before McCarthyism picked up the vital speed,…

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    Wisconsin Senator, Joseph McCarthy, led a campaign, known as McCarthyism, in the early 1950s against alleged communists in the United States government, who he claimed were the reason the United States was losing the Cold War. Even though most of these government officials had no real connection to the Communist Party, they were blacklisted. This showed that McCarthy was successful in his attempt to persuade the American people. This speech was delivered on February 12, 1950, to a Republican…

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    which is similar to the Salem witch trials in the late 1690s when innocent people were accused of witchcraft. Arthur Miller used a real story to show the similarities between Salem witch hunt and McCarthyism. He wrote The Crucible as a reflection of the Communist witch hunts of its time. McCarthyism started in the 1950’s and it was governmental accusations with no evidence. Joseph McCarthy started doing trials on those he thought were communist, but he had no evidence for it. McCarthy…

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