Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is written about the salem Witchcraft trial of 1692, these trials conssisted of women being accused of being witches, being sentenced to death, tortured, and their reputation would be forever tarnished. The similar "McCarthy" hearings were trials in which Senator JoeMcarthy accused government employees of being comunists. Both the events in 1692 and 1950 share very similar details on how they took effect on people. There was really no proof for them to go off of, but they got the consequences anyway. Which created fear in people and the will to fight back. Many people were being wrongly accused and sentenced to execution. So upon people getting accused of their actions, they would wrongfully blame another person, …show more content…
The parallel event that took place in the 1950's would be when senator McCarthy ruled, everyone was for themselves and would put anyone under the bus to protect themselves. in the play, Proctor says ,”How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul, leave my name!” This quote refers back to my theory on people losing their dignity in fear of the consequences of being a victim of the many false accusations at the time. The people of salem similarly falsley accused others of witchcraft to protect their own lives. The unwarrented accusations of the citizens of Salem and Joseph McCarthy made are what fueled widespread chaos in both situations. Also, both situations suggested that people had a certain mindset of "guilty until you confess" In salem really the only way to get out of death was to confess to what you were accused of. People were driven by the theme of hysteria, so that played a big roll also in both situations. Another theme that would be a big roll in both the situations would be the theme of vengeance. (Trying to get back at someone for a particular action). The way that this worked in salem was the villigars use the witchcraft trials as a way to settle