WAR OF THE WORLDS October 30, 1938, was a time during the Great Depression which lead into multiple hardships and times of unease. Orson Welles decided to broadcast a revised version of the book, “War of The Worlds”, but implemented that the radio play was occuring in real time to make the play more exciting. Unfortunately, some citizens believed that the radio play was an actual phenomenon that was occurring worldwide. This frightened many people around the world. Orson Welles is guilty of violating the Clear and Present Danger Clause because he did not care he wasted citizens money, ruined lives, and scared citizens. First of all, Orson Welles did not care that citizens wasted their money. For example, George Bates is a laborer who lives in Massachuchets who lost all of his savings because of Orson Welles. George Bates had claimed that after he tuned into a part of the play, he was in complete shock and decided to use his $3.25 to buy a train ticket that took him far away from the radio play’s setting. George Bates lost all of his hard earned money, which was in the Great Depression and it was difficult to earn money. Orson Welles ran away when he was confronted by the police from the back exit of the studio, which shows Welles did …show more content…
For example, Dorothy Thompson claimed that in New York, at least 20 citizens were injured and in need of medical treatment after listening to the play. Also, Fran Mcninch, claimed that many citizens committed suicide because they could not handle the stress the situation had caused. Orson Welles caused citizens to believe there was a threat that was occurring worldwide. Orson Welles set the play as a real broadcast, and Orson Welles knew that people would believe that the radio play was real. People obtained unnecessary injuries because of Orson Welles’ actions. This shows Orson Welles violated the Clear and Present Danger Clause by using his radio play to ruin people’s
...suppression, and incarceration. That ended up costing American an estimated 10,000 jobs. The government had complete control over the media, educational system, and any literature that was available. Books were illegal, and were burned in the novel by the government enforcers, the firemen. We saw the comparison with the time period in when the novel was written, and post September 11. It is great how the author's work still has great meaning in today's society.
Nearly everyone has heard the words, “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.” These words, delivered by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, are but a small piece of an elaborate example of a well-executed rhetorical speech. He used rhetorical devices and strategies such as anaphora, repetition, and amplification, in order to achieve his purpose of informing the people of the United States of the attack on Pearl Harbor the day before, to persuade the people to support the war effort, and to remember those innocent lives lost.
Arthur Miller intended to break the fear of the cold war and respond to Senator McCarthy and Communism. The play was a metaphor for the red scare. The red scare was during 1947-1956 and is also called McCarthyism.
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Kubrick came across the novel Red Alert, and instead of deciding to make the work into a film that tackled the notion of nuclear war in a serious manner, he chose to make the film a satire. This was immensely risky. Only two years after the conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which nearly plunged the world into a nuclear holocaust, as the topic of nuclear war as a film subject, let alone a satire, was considered taboo and by no means socially ac...
First of all, In both scenarios innocent people are targeted and both the Play and the events that happened during WWII had people who were against or had little against what the mainstream society was acting upon; there were also others who showed a deep hatred and went above and beyond to make the lives of some innocent people miserable. An example of deep disgust in The Crucible was Mrs. Putnam’s; right from Act one she showed a biased opinion on witches based on her personal past: “They were murdered, Mr. Parris! And mark this proof! Mark it! Last night my Ruth were ever so close to their little spirit; I know it, sir. For how else is she struck dumb now except some power of darkness would stop her mouth?”. (Miller 15) However, John Proctor was the opposite and disagreed with the fact that these supernatural powers existed, he was told by Abigail herself that all the things they had done was just sport. He was also notorious for not following all the church/religious rules; he would plow on sunday’s, didn 't have his son baptized, and did not regularly attend church. It seemed as if John was not as superstitious as other community members. This was the same for people on the issue of Internment camps; Many people of Japanese descent also were in fear during the attack on Pearl Harbour, they were citizens and some of them had adapted that the US and Canada
On June 19, 1953, there came an end to what would become known as “the trial of the century”. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted for being Soviet spies and leaking crucial information about the creation of atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. They were sentenced to death and executed by use of the electric chair, leaving behind two orphaned children. However, they have never admitted to committing this crime and their involvement in the leaking of the so-called Manhattan Project was never thoroughly proved. Their execution came to be known as one of the main events characteristic of the Cold War environment in the United States of the 1950s, which was influenced by the phenomenon of McCarthyism. This essay will examine the Rosenberg Case up close. It will first look at the course of their trial. Then it will take a step back and describe the Cold War environment in which the trial took place, which was being dominated by anti-communist sentiment, the Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy. In combining these two sections, this essay will seek to explain how the Rosenberg Case neglected American values of freedom and tolerance, and how this neatly fitted the environment of the Cold War.
Silence has pervaded every imaginable recess in the old dilapidated courthouse. A hundred silent onlookers hold their breath in baited anticipation. Suddenly, the dull sound that only wood can make as it slams into an desk echoes for what may as well be all eternity. A single man garners the attention of two hundred eyes as he unintentionally clears his throat. However his lips only are able to take form around one bloodcurdling word: guilty. Although of what crime depends on the time period of the aforementioned case, for trials such as these have occurred in American History not once but twice. The first began back in the 1600's in a little town known as Salem Massachusetts, where people were killed for crimes of witchcraft. The second instance, while not quite as known for bestowing rigor mortis still put ruin on the lives of many. Trials in the 1950's fueled by McCarthyism and the idea that communism was invading the United States led to the blacklisting of many people as supposed socialists. Arthur Miller saw the real story of the trials for supposed unamericans during his time and he set about making it known to the public. However, had miller outright stated his views he would have found himself in the same position as those who's stories he tried to tell. Therefore he devised a creative solution; he wrote a story based on events in the Salem witch trials that is nearly perfectly symbolic of the McCarthyism trials. Miller's extensive [use of] irony in the crucible reveals the actual motives behind events carried out during the Salem witch trials, and thereby he exposes the dark truth of what happened during 1950's McCarthyism trials on Unamerican activities.
December 7th, 1941 is a day that lives in infamy and changed the course of American history. Despite the United States’ trepidation and hesitation about entering World War II, the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor influences President Roosevelt to declare war on the Empire of Japan, to claim, “that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.” The vast majority of modern American citizens view World War II as the pivotal moment of the 20th century, when the forces of good (the Allies) defeat evil (The Axis Powers). Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 satirically dissects this popular notion about World War II, and humorously exposes the ineffective bureaucratic and immoral profit-driven nature of the American war effort. Heller accomplishes his goal by creating
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller was set in one of the most chaotic times in American history but not the last. In the 1950’s a similar haze of disarray fell on the people of America, in a period referred to as The Great American Red Scare. Like in The Crucible many were pressed and pressured to give names of the involved, whether it be witchcraft or “communist dealings”. Even highly respected of both societies were tried for a mere mentioning of there name. Then those who wouldn’t admit to the crime of which they were accused they were thrown in jail.
After the progressive era, World War I brought about domestic threats as a result of the foreign threat. When America entered World War I, many people were afraid of internal dangers threatening the safety of America. The congress passed the Espionage Act to s...
Ever wonder is if a small lie could escalate so much that 19 deaths occurred? Abigail Williams told a lie in the book, The Crucible saying in a forest she saw all these innocent people performing witchcraft when they were just living a normal Christian life. This event of the witchcraft in Salem and another event in the 1950’s are very similar. In the early 1950’s during the Cold War, communists lost their friends and jobs. While Arthur Miller clearly wrote the play The Crucible to demonstrate his belief that an individual should never give up the power to think for him or himself, he also intended it to be allegory for the Red Scarce of the 1950’s called McCarthyism.
The world knows him as the Master of Suspense. He has also changed the way people look at film. Alfred Hitchcock was born at the turn of the century in England. His was raised in a very religious upbringing. He went to college at the University of London only to leave after the death of his father and to support himself he worked for Henley Telegraph and Cable Company as a technical clerk. His skills at this job would only propel him into the world of the film industry. His attention to the tiny details helped him land his first films at Players-Lasky Corporation. He would go to Germany to work on his first two films where he would meet his future wife, Alma Reville, also a film director and editor. Hitchcock and his wife are later married
“The Great Dictator”, an elegant speech composed by the magnificent Charlie Chaplin, was a particularly moving one that has gained widespread recognition and praise since it was given back in the 1940s. On the surface, it appears as if Chaplin is directing soldiers to think for themselves and to break away from dictators’ indoctrination, as “dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!” is a line that is reprehended throughout the speech. Further analysis of Chaplin’s speech seems to reveal, however, that he rather wants the soldiers to break away from the deeper aspect of tyranny that has been embedded within them, essentially controlling them. Chaplin wants the audience to take action and think for themselves; to help one another and to save humanity from war using three key rhetorical tools: ethos, organization and pathos.