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Why The Crucible?
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For years, people thought that Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to condemn the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. However, we have recently learned that he wrote it for the purpose of showing the similarities to the McCarthyism Era in the 1950’s. Too many people who read The Crucible will walk away thin ....
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....ings was “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. The same holds true for communists.” (Hamilton 2) He applied this saying when he accused people. If they associated with communists, voiced communist opinions, or did anything abnormal, then they must be a communist. McCarthyism was bred by the insecurities of everyone. The craziness of accusing people mushroomed.
One problem that McCarthy and his followers ran into was that communism was not il.... |
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