wrote
in 1953, during
the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The play,
which is a
fictionalized account of the Salem Witch Trials, is an(or extended) about
McCarthyism. During the time period of McCarthyism, which lasted approximately from 1950
to 1956
(with effects lingering afterward), Senator Joseph McCarthy began to
accuse government officials
and other people of being Communists. As a
result, people were blacklisted and stripped of their
livelihoods with very
little substantiating evidence. The U.S. House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC) investigated government...
Monday, November 7, 2016
How Is The Crucible An Allegory
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How is Joe McCarthy related to the play The Crucible?
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