audience sympathizes with John Proctor not only because he has been falsely accused‚ but also because he is a representation of the human condition. In contrast‚ Miller causes the audience to despise the accusers in order to exemplify the injustice of McCarthyism. John Proctor is the primary character in the play that evokes pathos in the audience. Proctor made the infamous mistake of committing adultery and lechery with Abigail. “Abby‚ I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my
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What is McCarthyism? McCarthyism is the practice of making false accusations of disloyalty‚ especially of pro-Communists activity‚ in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight‚ doubtful‚ or irrelevant evidence. (http://. dictionary.reference.com/.browse/mccarthyism) McCarthyism was originated when a young Marquette law student was elected to the Senate. Want to see how an evil man made history? Follow this map through his early years‚ the Red Scare‚ and the Black List. Joseph McCarthy
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Katherine Pajewski Ms. Little English Period 6 10/10/13 The Crucible and McCarthyism Paralleled In the play The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller creates a tragic story of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 which parallel McCarthyism during the 1950s. Miller published this play in 1953‚ after feeling the effects of McCarthyism during the 1950s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Miller paralleled McCarthyism by writing about the events and ways of thinking that prompted the outbreaks‚ the immediate reactions
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Comparison Between the Salem witch trials and the McCarthyism period In today’s world‚ there are many ridiculous happenings that people blow out of proportion. Everything as frivolous as celebrities from anything as serious as 9/11 many go overboard in any given situations. Like in the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller which is a comparison the ridiculous social paranoia of the McCarthy period in the 50’s and the salem witch trials. The play written by Arthur Miller shows how many has
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the 1950s‚ McCarthyism arose as paranoia about communism in the United States. McCarthyism‚ after Senator Joseph McCarthy is a term used to describe the composition of disloyalty‚ subversion‚ or treason without felicitously appropriate regard for evidence. McCarthyism arose after World War 2‚ when Americans commenced to be very scared that communists were endeavoring to surmount the country. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible because he wanted to connect the situation of the Salem witch tribulations
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The play The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller connects to McCarthyism in the modern days and he makes it clear that manipulating others leads to people manipulating them. McCarthyism is the practice of making wrongdoing of disruption or treason without proper regard for evidence. It is also the practice of making unfair statements or using unfair investigative techniques‚ especially in order to restrict resistance political criticism. Part of McCarthyism was paranoia and finding a victim and blaming innocent
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"Reasonable doubt" was all that was necessary to accuse and sometimes convict someone of un-American activities in the late 1940 ’s‚ early 1950 ’s. This period of time was known for McCarthyism--a time of extreme anticommunism‚ lead by Senator Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism). The United States pledged to contain the spread of communism globally‚ as well as locally‚ and did what it could to keep this promise. Americans began to fear that communism was leaking into the media‚ government‚ arts‚ schools
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face a conflict of either blanketly removing the unacceptable or directly confronting and conquering the incorrect behaviors through allowing independent thought. Both McCarthyism and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 manifest this conflict and ultimately realize that knowledge and independent thought need to prevail. In both McCarthyism and Fahrenheit 451 a higher power attempts to eradicate knowledge and independent thought through book burning. “In 1953 U.S Senator Joseph McCarthy recited before his
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Women Were Primarily Victims of Witch-Hunting and They did not Exercise any Significant Agency/power through the Process of Witch trials. A well-established definition of a victim is a person who has been attacked‚ or injured by someone else and someone who is harmed by an unpleasant event. In addition‚ the reference to the word ‘significant’ in this thesis argument is an important qualifier. The word significant‚ being a subjective term‚ allows this author to argue women did not have significant
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18th century. A new time era known as "The Enlightenment" came about which brought many advances in medicine‚ science‚ botany‚ and education. Also‚ the "Great Awakening"‚ a time of great religious revival flourished. A well known event‚ the Salem Witch Trials were known as an essential turning point in history. It showed how religion and government changed through history. British America became a more stable environment with mixed results due to these turning points. "The Enlightenment" was a period
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