McCarthyism

1953 by Author Miller. It is based on the Salem witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts between the time period of 1692-1693. Author Miller wrote the play during the Red Scare as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S government was accusing the people of communism. McCarthyism much alike The Crucible jailed whoever would not give up names and whoever would not confess. In The Crucible there are three characters who value their reputation very much and put it above all else.…

One early attendee drew her own connection to the Faire’s setting and the time of its development: “The Faire… had an intellectual focus on the history of an era of awakening from the Dark Ages (just as we were awakening from the Dark Ages of McCarthyism)” (Rubin 23). The Renaissance Faire was a grand experiment in cultural change. More open sexuality, free expression through audience participation, creativity in costuming…

McCarthy’s Red Scare Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and everyone works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. It was a hated thing in America, and most people feared it. That being said, it was the cause of the Red Scare in America. America should not have trusted McCarthy with the issue of the Red Scare. The first reason that America should not have trusted McCarthy is…

era by taking concepts of real spies in government, Russian space exploration and results of fears aroused by HUAC to a very abstract concept of alien invasion on the world. Film is metaphor of america in 1950s, since it parallelizes the theme of mccarthyism spread of communism and cold war…

poem by Martin Niemoller speaks about the failure of good people to act soon enough against the Nazis, it could also apply to the characters of Salem Village in Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible" and also about the instigators and victims of McCarthyism, which the play purports to expose. Severe tests in town create massive hysteria, everyone starts blaming neighbors and enemies for witchcraft and many innocent people get tried for witchcraft. In the Crucible, Arthur Miller illustrates…

The Crucible Essay In The Crucible, Arthur Miller was successful on educating readers about history and encouraging them to not make the same mistakes of the past. The McCarthy era was more of an ideological war, meaning an idea that scared people to death, rather than a real war. The major issue that happened in Salem is that people were falsely accused of being witches when there was no real evidence of witchcraft. I believe that Arthur Miller did a sound job of getting his readers to…

Arthur Asher Miller was a prolific American essayist, playwright and a prominent figure in 20th century American theatre. Miller was born on October 17th, 1915, and died on 10th February, 2005. Due to his excellent work in writing, he received many awards throughout his career. His works involved writing stage, radio, and screen plays, assorted fiction, nonfiction and numerous collections. Throughout his career, he wrote different forms of literature that were based on different historical…

Witchcraft Communism, and False Accusations Have you ever been falsely accused of something that you didn't do? Something like breaking into the cookie jar, or being blamed on the broken vase that has been smashed to smithereens? Well, anyone who was accused of being a communist spy in the 1950’s feels your pain. Senator Joseph McCarthy reined in the 1950’s, and he was certain that the US was plagued with Communist spies. McCarthy struck the nation with fear. Fear that one’s friends,…

blamed government officials and those who are famous, but in order to fit in with scared peers, the common folk started accusing their brethren and sistren. This time again, it’s a group being attack instead of an individual, and the scapegoat of McCarthyism is communists. Why were they the scapegoat? Communists don’t conform to America’s capitalist ways, making them an easy target.The Red Scare came to an end in 1957, when a TV expose ruined McCarthy’s poll ratings. He later became an…

The period before, during, and after World War II called the Cold War lasting from the 1930s to the 1970s was a period of suspicion for American citizens. People began to perceive a communist threat everywhere, from Hollywood to the State Department. The many high-profile cases of individuals spying for the Soviet union in the United States both fueled and reflected the extreme paranoia of society during the Cold War by creating and reflecting the concern of a communist threat in American…