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| Project id | 1001835 |
|---|---|
| Subject area | Arts Entertainment |
| Document type | Essay |
| Words | 1968 |
The play "The Crucible" is a allegory for the McCarthyism hysteria that occurred in the late 1940's into the late 1950's. Arthur Miller's play "the crucible" and the McCarthyism era illustrates how anxiety can start battle. The term McCarthyism has come to mean "that the practice of making accusations of disloyalty", which is the cornerstone of the Salem witch trials introduced in Arthur Miller's playwith. The fear that the trials generate leads to the external and internal conflicts that some of the characters are faced with, at the drama. The city's people dread the consequences of recognizing their displeasure of the trials and the essence of John Proctor faces the exact outside struggle, but also his own internal conflict. The trials begin because of Abigail and her friends fearing the results of their defiance of Salem's puritan society. The witch hunt from the crucible is initiated when Abigail and her friends fear the outcome of their 'dance' from the woods. This links to McCarthyism because the HUAC is symbolized with the judges and the 'accuses' (the women) are agents of Elia Kazan and many others like him. The theocratic society of Salem is what the women fear as the woods is viewed as the most devils resting place and the puritan nature of the town forbid dancing because it was viewed as 'vain pleasure' which as Miller himself states at the start of the book to not be permitted. The nature of Mary Warren begs the girls to just admit they had been dancing as "you'll only be whipped for dancin''', but as Abigail is contested and Parris cites the pot and the way he believed "there for a movement- from the soup", the devil becomes notable in the dialogue. This is because of Abigail fearing that she will be blamed for devil worshipp...
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