The Witch Trials and McCarthyism

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August 6, 2012

 

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Through the character Abigail Williams, Miller shows how people are willing to abandon their firmly established values in order to conform to the majority and protect themselves. Those who refuse to part with their conscience, such as the character of John Proctor, are consequently prosecuted. When Miller wrote The Crucible in the early 1950s, the United States was experiencing a modern "witch hunt" of its own...
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When Miller wrote The Crucible in the early 1950s, the United States was experiencing a modern "witch hunt" of its own. Senator Joseph McCarthy, provoked by the Cold War, became fearfully convinced that Communists were polluting American government. He intended to hunt them out, force them to confess, and make them name their associates, or face the consequences...
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