Japanese Internment In The Crucible

The Japanese internment that occurred during the 1940s under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was partially a result of the profiling of Japanese people as spies or untrustworthy similar to the assumptions made about characteristics a woman would have that would make her more likely to be accused of witchcraft. The Internment of Japanese Americans and citizens during World War II exhibits starkingly similar parallels to the witch hunts Arthur Miller examined in his play The Crucible due to the common theme of incriminating people based on generalizations and fear. Japanese Internment during World War II occurred because the government and American people reacted to the war with japan and attacks on pearl harbour by profiling all japanese