Mccarthyism Vs Salem Witch Trials In The 1950's

In the1950s, the world though that they are not as ludicrous as the people of the past, but ultimately they were the same. In the past, people believe that witches were among them, and that practiced black magic and used it on people. Later on, they have drawn away from those silly associations, but are still as naive as they were, but in a different way. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, he uses a comparison from the Salem Witch Trials in the 1500’s to the Red Scare epidemic in the 1950’s. The term, McCarthyism was formed in the 1950’s due to a man, Joe McCarthy, making poorly supported accusations of people being communist. Arthur Miller used this in his play to depict the events taken place. Although what Miller may not have known at the

In Salem, a man named George Burroughs was former Salem minister who was testified against and being called the "ringleader" of the witches . He was tried and hung, but before he was hung stunned the crowd by loudly proclaiming his innocence and then reciting the Lord's Prayer without hesitation or error. This was thought to be impossible for a witch to do (“George Burroughs”). Now onto McCarthyism, the founder, Joe McCarthy claimed himself the “American Savior” and was the only one would root out all the communists. He began a full investigation of alleged communist activities in federal governmental working his way from the lower-level officials to the top. Since that is where his job was he presumed that people higher up would be more likely to sell information. Two governmental officials who were accused were Dean Acheson, secretary of state, and George Marshall who was chief of staff, secretary of defense, secretary of state, and a former general. Both of the accusations had little evidence and made Mccarthy lose support. (“McCarthy accuses State Department of Communist