The Characterization Of Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

Merriam-Webster defines the word shun as to avoid deliberately and especially habitually. Although shunning has repeatedly occurred since the dawn of time, it has evolved and adapted as society has grown. Most reasons for shunning can be placed into four categories: personality clashes, historical conflicts, differing beliefs, and obstinance to behaviors universally accepted as the social normality. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were shunned from American society because of their communist belief and accusation of partaking in espionage, but more importantly because of the fear-mongering U.S. government victimization of any persons involved in communist activity. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a Jewish couple born and raised in New York during the early 1900s. In 1942, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were both active participants in the American Communist Party. They decided to leave the party in 1943 because of the growing stigma surrounding communism with the peak of World War II and the early beginning of the Cold War. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, a mass hysteria swept
Julius was fired from his job with the Signal Corps because of this program. For many people ever affiliated with the Communist Party, maintaining employment or being hired for a new job was difficult. Almost every aspect of American life tried to purge itself of communism. Other American citizens not only wished to eradicate communist people such as the Rosenbergs from their life for the potential infiltrative risk, but also because of fear that they themselves might be suspected of communism. On March 29, 1951, during the peak of the communist uproar, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were found guilty of espionage and sentenced to death. They were executed by electric chair in 1953 and have been since thought to be source of great