Mccarthyism Vs Crucible

To start off, the fear and paranoia of world destruction that existed in the McCarthy Era, was also clearly present in The Crucible with its deeply religious nature. American society during the McCarthy Era had a great fear of the Communists because they believed that the Communists wanted nuclear war, which meant the destruction of America and the rest of the world. On the other hand, communists did not yet exist in the time period that The Crucible took place in. Instead, the deeply religious nature of the theocratic town of Salem is what Miller used to portray the same amount of fear as present in the McCarthy Era. Given their religiousness, the town’s residents took everything the bible had to say as the be-all and end-all truth. They