The Crucible In Relation To The Red Scare
The Crucible In Relation To The Red Scare.
During the 1940’s and 1950’s there was mass hysteria that broke out in the United States. The “Red Scare” was a large scale panic across the United States Of America. This was during the cold war, at this time the U.S. was worried about communists and espionage due to that we had caught Russian spies across the U.S. “The Crucible” has a similar plot line to the “Red scare”, due to how mass hysteria is spread so quickly over false accusations. In “The Crucible” witchcraft is highly frowned upon, they even killed twenty people over it. Salem was a highly religious town, but the young people of the town were not so much. Several girls got caught by Reverend Paris in the woods dancing. He says to Abigail
During the 1940’s and 1950’s there was mass hysteria that broke out in the United States. The “Red Scare” was a large scale panic across the United States Of America. This was during the cold war, at this time the U.S. was worried about communists and espionage due to that we had caught Russian spies across the U.S. “The Crucible” has a similar plot line to the “Red scare”, due to how mass hysteria is spread so quickly over false accusations. In “The Crucible” witchcraft is highly frowned upon, they even killed twenty people over it. Salem was a highly religious town, but the young people of the town were not so much. Several girls got caught by Reverend Paris in the woods dancing. He says to Abigail