The Crucible && McCarthyism
Background && Relations
The Crucible
- Begin in the house of Reverend Samuel Parris
- Betty was unconscious upstairs
- Betty is Reverend Parris niece
- Abigail tell lies and manipulate people
- Abigail accused Proctor of being in love with her
- Putnam accuses Proctor of stealing wood from his land
- It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials
McCarthyism
- in McCarthyism, no one was killed for being accused of being a communist
- Most of them came out with a bad reputation whether or not they denied it
- people first accused as insiders
- happened in the 1950's
- practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion or treason
- known as second red scare
The Crucible && McCarthyism Similarities
- Have anger
- accused of guilt
- Put on trials and expected to confess
- were not willing to stand up to the court or their senator
- wrote by Arthur miller
- Fear
- accusations of one person leading to mass hysteria