Trust In The Crucible

Losing Trust People are influenced by the world around them. Someone may have changed their opinions or beliefs by hearing what others have said. Many in society are guilty of a process known as the “bandwagon effect” in which people will ignore what they want and look around to see what everyone else says first (Bandwagon Effect). This can be as innocent as standing in a crowd of people who are dancing and deciding to dance because everyone else is doing it, or causing a devastating event like the Salem witch trials where lives were taken and destroyed by accusations of witchcraft. Lives were taken and destroyed as a result of people agreeing about a situation before they saw the whole truth. Trust was lost which caused chaos, and that
Three years after The Crucible was written, He refused to name any names in court and defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities, also known as HCUAA (History.com). Miller wrote The Crucible because of McCarthyism. He saw how the Salem witch trials and McCarthy trials were similar and wrote it to get the public to recognize how history is repeating itself.. In his play, Abigail Williams motive was John Proctor and was determined to get her way. She would throw accusations without any proof and no one would question it. The girls she manipulated were too scared to go against her because Abigail could and would accuse them of being witches. In The Crucible, a servant girl to John and Elizabeth named Mary Warren tried to confess and have Abigail incarcerated. However, her plan failed since Abigail made the girl turn against Mary and were screaming and crying out that they saw visions or her being a witch. “The wings! Her wings are spreading! Mary, please, don’t, don’t!-She’s going to come down! She’s walking the beam!- Look out! She’s coming down!” (Miller, The Crucible 117-118). The Ultimately she liked her power that everyone had given her. McCarthy found a way to rise to power by doing the same. He said many allegations against many innocent people. Hardly any questioned because they feared that their reputation would be ruined. President Harry S. Truman had his doubts about Joe McCarthy and tried to express his worries at “News Conference at Key West” on March 30, 1950 (Truman Responds). His concerns were not taken into consideration and he was ridiculed. His accusations destroyed lives. Most of the senate would agree with him because they were too frightened or they genuinely believed him because they didn’t think about what they were agreeing to before hearing stories from both