Misunderstanding and ignorance paves the path for fear. Fear becomes the greatest enemy and turns into hate. These two factors have become the root problems in both the Salem witch trials in 1692 and the Cold War during the 20th centuryThe Crucible by Arthur Miller, discusses the Salem witch trials and the underlying causes such as fear and ignorance that led to the horrific witch hunting. These factors contribute to the citizens of the time, leading to mass hysteria to build up. Similarly, the Cold War was embedded in the science and terror that people had towards each other. The Cold War was a rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which lasted for decades between 1945 and 1991, leading to anti-communist suspicions and international …show more content…
The Cold War was a time of ongoing anxiety. The public was under constant fear of nuclear attacks. Due to this, the public was under a demeanor of panic resulting in many discriminating against one another. Those who were from the Soviet Union were constantly blamed for any negative events and were isolated as they could be “dangerous”. In the “Origins of the Cold War” by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., he talks about the true foundation of the Cold War, such as fear and outcasting of those with different cultures. In his text he says, “For nearly two somber and dangerous decades this antagonism dominated the fears of mankind; it may even, on occasion, have come close to blowing up the planet”(Schlesinger 22). May put an actual quote. Fear of the nuclear threats became a massive cause for the Cold War. Continuously, the Soviet Union and the U.S. kept threatening each other, putting the population under mass hysteria. Moreover, this fear led to hate towards opposing countries and discrimination against those who didn’t believe in the same ideology. The trepidation during the Cold War due to the nuclear threats led to discrimination against innocent people from the Soviet Union, showing how the fear was a root conflict of the Cold
and The Crucible Events have played out in history that made people realize the inhumane acts of people and the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy era were two of them. The Salem witch trials in 1692 were almost 260 years before the McCarthy “witch hunts” in the 1950s yet there are similarities between them. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, is about the Salem witch trials and is an allegory to the practicing of McCarthyism during the Second Red Scare in the United States, which Miller
It’s the 1690’s in Salem Massachusetts and allegations are in the air; the town is tense and no one can be trusted. This is the setting of the play The Crucible which tells the story of the Salem witch trials. The play was written during the Red Scare, or the fear of communism, of the Cold War. This gave the play a double meaning. Instead of just being a historical play, to show how history always repeats itself. The Crucible, written in 1953 by Arthur Miller, reflects 20th century American
Comparing the Salem Witch Trials, European Witchcraft Craze and the McCarthy Hearings The evidence of witchcraft and related works has been around for many centuries. Gradually, though, a mixture a religious, economical, and political reasons instigated different periods of fear and uncertainty among society. Witchcraft was thought of as a connection to the devil that made the victim do evil and strange deeds. (Sutter par. 1) In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and twentieth century, the hysteria over