The Crucible Red Scare Research Paper

Hysteria, it causes humans to afflict others by the guile of another. “As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare” (History.com, n.d., para.1). It was called the red scare because the reds were communists that were in allegiance for the soviet flag. America was finding communists in the country so they could keep it pure and this all started because of Joseph Mccarthy.(quote from the crucible). A similar situation happened three hundred years ago in the salem witch trials and a play named The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller.

People were labeled witches by little girls and they were either killed or they went to jail. These two events are very similar the red scare

“Abigail, it may be that your cousin is dying Did you call the devil last night? I never called him! Tituba, Tituba …. She made me do it! he made Betty do it!” (Miller, 2007, p. 1283-1284). This girl named Abigail Williams was the accuser of the town for witches. If you were accused of being a witch it was very difficult to prove that you weren’t a witch. You had two choices if you were found guilty of being a witch you could either confess that you were a witch or, you would die if you didn’t confess. twenty five people died from this. The accusers were a bunch of little girls that used unseeable evidence on people that were innocent and the magistrates believed it. If you confessed that you were a witch you would go to prison and more than a one hundred plus people went to jail. The only people that were safe were Pastors because they could not be possessed and pregnant women because you couldn't kill the child inside of the woman. The Crucible and The Red Scare have many similarities but they also had many