Essay Comparing The Salem Witch Trials And Mccarthyism
Potent similarities of different patterns and genres are found between the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism even though there was a significant period of time that separated them. The Salem witch trials began in 1692 and caused panic, confusion, and disorder as a result of witchcraft accusations in both Salem Village and Salem Town, Massachusetts. McCarthyism, which was presided over by J., Parnell Thomas from the 1940s to the 1950s, first originated in the HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee), and was based on the Republican ideas of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy; McCarthyism had vast investigations all over the States. Mass hysteria, chaos and disarray caused by the accusations against innocent lives and people were evident
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The Hollywood Ten, as they came to be known, claimed that the rights and freedom of speech given to them by the first amendment through the Bill of Rights, gave them the voice and power to resist and oppose. However, as a result, they were sentenced to six months of prison. Furthermore, this occurrence is a wonderful representation and also a clear paradigm that gives one an idea about how the trials during McCarthy 's era did not differ much from the ruthless witch trials in Salem; the suspects were given prison terms without taking into account the broken laws and violated human rights, condemned even beyond the necessary. Even though most of the sentences were not protracted, the consequences were life-lastingthey all resulted life-lasting since the sentence was the same as a black mark on the condemned; it ruined their existence until the end condemning them not only for those few months of their lives but for an eternity. They were astonishingly unwanted, wordlessly abandoned, and suppressed off the limits. As a result of these prejudicial ideas, even their descendants were socially and politically persecuted, not being able to do anything in their lives. McCarthy 's campaign raised a suspicious wave in the society,
The Hollywood Ten, as they came to be known, claimed that the rights and freedom of speech given to them by the first amendment through the Bill of Rights, gave them the voice and power to resist and oppose. However, as a result, they were sentenced to six months of prison. Furthermore, this occurrence is a wonderful representation and also a clear paradigm that gives one an idea about how the trials during McCarthy 's era did not differ much from the ruthless witch trials in Salem; the suspects were given prison terms without taking into account the broken laws and violated human rights, condemned even beyond the necessary. Even though most of the sentences were not protracted, the consequences were life-lastingthey all resulted life-lasting since the sentence was the same as a black mark on the condemned; it ruined their existence until the end condemning them not only for those few months of their lives but for an eternity. They were astonishingly unwanted, wordlessly abandoned, and suppressed off the limits. As a result of these prejudicial ideas, even their descendants were socially and politically persecuted, not being able to do anything in their lives. McCarthy 's campaign raised a suspicious wave in the society,