The Red Scare Vs The Crucible Essay
Does Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” effectively demonstrate the concept of what was going on the Red Scare? That is the question I am going to answer in this essay. I believe Arthur Miller draws these parallels perfectly. The Salem witch trials are the same thing as the Red Scare , just in a different time period. This essay is going to draw the parallels to demonstrate how my above statement is correct. The first type of parallelism i saw in the comparison of The crucible and the Red Scare was how they accused anyone they wanted. They accused people for personal gain in both times. In the quote “ He would attack any person or organization as long as he got good publicity from it…”(200) The great fear is explaining that McCarthy
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The people during the Salem witch trials did the same exact thing when they were accused. In the quote “... confessed spies trying to reduce their sentence by turning witnesses for prosecution, and that they were convicted of conspiring to pass secrets to russia at a time when Russia was an ally…”(213)McCarthy was saying that confessed spies were giving up the people's names to save themselves. In Salem people gave other “devil worshipers” names to save themselves. In the quote “... David and Ruth Greenglass, testified that the Rosenbergs had recruited them as accomplices in the vast conspiracy to transmit secrets of the atomic bomb to Russia during the second world war…”(212) The author is saying that a couple people confessed and lied to lessen their punishments. In Salem people confessed ,so they wouldn't hang. The Red Scare and The Salem witch trials were very identical in a lot of ways. Most of them are listed in this essay. They are alike in that people had no way of getting a fair trial and were pre judged, they accused anyone that they wanted, and that people confessed and false testified to save themselves. I believe Arthur Miller drew these parallels perfectly between these two events in time. I think the Salem witch trials and the red scare are basically the same thing/event in different time periods. History truly does repeat
The people during the Salem witch trials did the same exact thing when they were accused. In the quote “... confessed spies trying to reduce their sentence by turning witnesses for prosecution, and that they were convicted of conspiring to pass secrets to russia at a time when Russia was an ally…”(213)McCarthy was saying that confessed spies were giving up the people's names to save themselves. In Salem people gave other “devil worshipers” names to save themselves. In the quote “... David and Ruth Greenglass, testified that the Rosenbergs had recruited them as accomplices in the vast conspiracy to transmit secrets of the atomic bomb to Russia during the second world war…”(212) The author is saying that a couple people confessed and lied to lessen their punishments. In Salem people confessed ,so they wouldn't hang. The Red Scare and The Salem witch trials were very identical in a lot of ways. Most of them are listed in this essay. They are alike in that people had no way of getting a fair trial and were pre judged, they accused anyone that they wanted, and that people confessed and false testified to save themselves. I believe Arthur Miller drew these parallels perfectly between these two events in time. I think the Salem witch trials and the red scare are basically the same thing/event in different time periods. History truly does repeat