Arthur Miller Grew Up In A Time When Fe
Estrella Carmona English III AP
Arthur Miller grew up in a time when fear was always prevalent in the United States. The Red Scare was a time filled with fear about people being scared that communist were going to take over the United States. Senator McCarthy was a big perpetuator of targeting of certain types of people. All of this is similar to the Salem Witch Trials during the 1950’s. Communism, McCarthyism, Puritanism, and the Salem Witch trials are all relevant in some form or another to Miller’s play “The Crucible”. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller is based on real events that happened in Salem, Massachusetts where the antagonist Abigal Williams accuses people in her village being involved with witch craft. Anyone who is accused of these crimes is to be sentenced to be hung. The people who lived in Salem came to the United States to leave religious restrictions from England but ironically still managed to place restrictions within their own religion. It’s scary to know the wave of mass hysteria such as those in the Salem Witch trials resulted in a high number of casualties. This is at least partially because the Puritans of Salem had a warped interpretation of Christianity. Puritans felt that everything must be done under the church of god. The people from Salem came to the United States from England in the 16th century to be free and express their own religion without any restrictions of having someone power over them. Their belief system is based around the theocracy. Puritanism is the extreme critical attitude regarding the religious compromises. During the Salem Witch trial they use puritanism to set up a system of rules to prove how justice must be serviced. In “The Crucible” Abigal Williams uses a manipulative technique similar to McCarthyism. McCarthyism is the use of unsubstantiated accusations or unfair investigate techniques in an attempt to expose disloyalty or
Arthur Miller grew up in a time when fear was always prevalent in the United States. The Red Scare was a time filled with fear about people being scared that communist were going to take over the United States. Senator McCarthy was a big perpetuator of targeting of certain types of people. All of this is similar to the Salem Witch Trials during the 1950’s. Communism, McCarthyism, Puritanism, and the Salem Witch trials are all relevant in some form or another to Miller’s play “The Crucible”. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller is based on real events that happened in Salem, Massachusetts where the antagonist Abigal Williams accuses people in her village being involved with witch craft. Anyone who is accused of these crimes is to be sentenced to be hung. The people who lived in Salem came to the United States to leave religious restrictions from England but ironically still managed to place restrictions within their own religion. It’s scary to know the wave of mass hysteria such as those in the Salem Witch trials resulted in a high number of casualties. This is at least partially because the Puritans of Salem had a warped interpretation of Christianity. Puritans felt that everything must be done under the church of god. The people from Salem came to the United States from England in the 16th century to be free and express their own religion without any restrictions of having someone power over them. Their belief system is based around the theocracy. Puritanism is the extreme critical attitude regarding the religious compromises. During the Salem Witch trial they use puritanism to set up a system of rules to prove how justice must be serviced. In “The Crucible” Abigal Williams uses a manipulative technique similar to McCarthyism. McCarthyism is the use of unsubstantiated accusations or unfair investigate techniques in an attempt to expose disloyalty or