The CrucibleSalem Witch Trials vs The McCarthy Hearings

In the Salem witch trials, insubstantial evidence was present in each of the events. People trying to save themselves from being prosecuted created the evidence

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In the play, the same things happened, not only to the poor, but also to the well off, including reverends. The parallel of the McCarthy trials was that people would falsely accuse other people of being a member of the Communist party. (Miller, 1240)

The mass hysteria of the witch trials was contrived by pointing blame at each other. Martin’s Press, 1994

The American Expedition: Arthur, Miller The Crucible.

The Crucible, showed that insubstantial evidence, and insignificant people being blamed not only causes lives, jobs, reputations, and families to be ruined, but also mass hysteria takes over the town, or even the country, and upsets people to no extent. In the McCarthy trials, Joe McCarthy did not cover his sin, but he feared that there were Communists within the government.

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Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 98. McCarthy and his suspicions ruined many peoples’ lives. One of the lives ruined in the play was John Proctor’s and his family’s, but in the end almost everything was better. One of the lines of the play quotes John Proctor, ”… as I have quailed, and as you that this be fraud — God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together”.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Jobs were lost, families torn apart, reputations not only bruised, but also scarred, and lives ruined.

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