Analysis Of The Crucible By Joseph Mccarthy
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...” (Coates, Ta-Nehisi) This skepticism inherently is the work of a manipulative person or group as a way of easing one's pain as seen in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, a Tragedy in which a group of young girls invigorated by a sense of false power, force false beliefs to ruin their town by "witch hangings." This false sense of an evil made inherent in some people can be traced till now with prominent displays being shown in the McCarthy Era. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Joseph McCarthy insinuated the idea that the communists were out to infiltrate and internally destroy the United States within the Government