McCarthyism

which revolved around the controversy of “McCarthyism’’, a time of which the country’s own government executed propaganda against Communism. Arthur Miller, the author of the The Crucible, had constructed a novel where its characters paralleled with the same tragedies and sentences that were given to the people that were involved in the McCarthyism trials. The book had a metaphorical meaning. The book was meant to attract attention of what the McCarthyism propaganda did and who executed those…

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is revered for accurately telling the story about the events which unfolded in Salem, Massachusetts during 1692. Demirkaya says that The Crucible “… opened at a time when the term witch-hunt was nearly synonymous in the public mind…” (125). The play was published in 1953 during the Red Scare, and as Susan C.W. Abbotson says in her book, Student Companion to Arthur Miller, “It tells the story behind the Salem witch trials of 1692, centering our attention on the effect…

with. The U.S. took it very serious. Because of it “prudent folk avoided [political activities]” that could get them in trouble (Schrecker). The whole term for McCarthyism is making accusations of treason without evidence. What was happening in Serling’s episode of “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street “is what you would call McCarthyism. The folks living on Maple Street were so quick to point fingers at each other without finding out the truth. Because of it Pete Van Horn was killed and a few…

Fear is an influential emotion that can cause many to perceive vulnerability. Fear can be used in different ways depending on the individual who enforces it. Once fear is used by the higher powered individual, the hysteria of it can take over and cause destruction to a community. Fear is used as a weapon by those who abuse their power to manipulate the innocent victims, which is clear in both eras of the Red Scare and The Crucible. The time periods are both supported by controversial claims…

The United States went into the Cold War with good intentions, wanting to end the spread of communism. These efforts eventually led to better relations with the Soviet Union, now Russia, as well as China. However, most of these efforts were fueled by fear, especially following the second red scare. This fear led to democratic rights being infringed upon at home and abroad, and the tearing down of the governments of other nations in order to keep communism at bay, ruining the lives of millions.…

witches; this really meant to accuse innocent people to save yourself. McCarthyism in the 1950’s was not really any different from the Salem witch trials, people were accused out of horror. McCarthyism targeted people who they believed were spies, of being a security threat. Witch trials and McCarthyism were not the only laws where people are accused and prosecuted without any hard evidence. Witch trials and McCarthyism…

States Government System (McCarthyism). He desired to find and uncover the ‘communists” hiding in the United States. This was an ongoing subject of quandary and chaos for many years. Most people have heard of the witch hunts and trials that took place in Europe long ago. They used the Malleus Maleficarum to identify witches by having a set of standards and anybody who didn’t meet those was most often executed as a witch. Imagine a modern day witch hunt. This was what McCarthyism was…

after World War II, the war has not disappeared, the atmosphere of terror of the Cold War was to followed. While the US against with the Soviet Union in the international community. From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, setting off a "McCarthyism" as the representative of the anti-communist, xenophobic movement, involving all levels of American politics, education and cultural fields, its impact is still visible. With the formation of the Cold War, Sino-US relations with different ideological…

another reason why women were the majority in the accusations was because perhaps they had double personalities. Which meant they would show a well-acted front to the people but actually had ulterior motives. This situation can also be compared to McCarthyism because Joseph McCarthy…

Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) were created in order to regulate the content of the film industry by censoring anti-American substance. Because the growth and evolution of the McCarthyism, or the practice of making unfair allegations against citizens suspected of being communists, many writers, actors, and directors were imprisoned under charges of Communism. Manipulated by powerful film panels as well as governmental…