Similarities Between The Crucible And Mccarthy

Arthur Miller had wrote The Crucible Because he believed that The Salem Panic was very similar to The McCarthy era since people were getting wrongfully accused of being apart of witchcraft. He was inspired to write a drama that would reflect the Salem cultural and political hysteria produced while the U.S. gov.expressed Communism in America. The McCarthy era was very similar to the Salem witch trials. Just like the McCarthy era, the girls in the Crucible made claims about members of the village. Also Just like the McCarthy era, these people were put on trial without being able to defend themselves. It was the word of McCarthy against their own. Their statement was something only they could believe, like the list that McCarthy refused to