Fear In The Crucible
The Epiphany of Fear
It is only human nature to succumb to and delve into the knowledge of the unknown or of
foreign threats towards ones safety. It is this prime example of mass illusion that overtook the
U.S. in the late 1940's to early 1950's with the panic induced by the Red Scare just as centuries before
innocents were hung upon the gallows of Salem by those who let fear guide their actions. In response
to this plague that was overtaking the U.S. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller was born. Arthur Miller
was a famous playwright whom had written and produced several famous plays in the United States
with at the time at his most famous being “Death of a Salesman”. Troubled by the recent events
occurring in the U.S. with the …show more content…
The point which Arthur Miller was
trying to make was that like the witch trials the Red Scare was an ignorant backlash founded upon
false truths and lies spoken by those who had no idea of what they were talking about. For example as
spoken by John Proctor the protagonist of the Crucible “Spite only keeps me silent it is hard to give a
lie to dogs”(Proctor 136). It is lines in The Crucible such as these that spoke volumes about Miller's
present life in the U.S. as Americans were accused of being communists and made just as John Proctor
was to give lies to dogs. The Crucible is in a form, the reality of life as it was made out to Americans
in the 1950's with the constant threat of persecution all for the misguided and unintelligent fear that
communists were living and preparing to overtake the United States comparable, as Arthur Miller
made clear to thousands, to the archaic form of thinking like the residents of Salem,
It is only human nature to succumb to and delve into the knowledge of the unknown or of
foreign threats towards ones safety. It is this prime example of mass illusion that overtook the
U.S. in the late 1940's to early 1950's with the panic induced by the Red Scare just as centuries before
innocents were hung upon the gallows of Salem by those who let fear guide their actions. In response
to this plague that was overtaking the U.S. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller was born. Arthur Miller
was a famous playwright whom had written and produced several famous plays in the United States
with at the time at his most famous being “Death of a Salesman”. Troubled by the recent events
occurring in the U.S. with the …show more content…
The point which Arthur Miller was
trying to make was that like the witch trials the Red Scare was an ignorant backlash founded upon
false truths and lies spoken by those who had no idea of what they were talking about. For example as
spoken by John Proctor the protagonist of the Crucible “Spite only keeps me silent it is hard to give a
lie to dogs”(Proctor 136). It is lines in The Crucible such as these that spoke volumes about Miller's
present life in the U.S. as Americans were accused of being communists and made just as John Proctor
was to give lies to dogs. The Crucible is in a form, the reality of life as it was made out to Americans
in the 1950's with the constant threat of persecution all for the misguided and unintelligent fear that
communists were living and preparing to overtake the United States comparable, as Arthur Miller
made clear to thousands, to the archaic form of thinking like the residents of Salem,