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The Crucible: Miller's McCarthynistic Idea - Online Term Paper

The Crucible: Miller's McCarthynistic Idea

“The play was inspired by Miller's belief that the hysteria
surrounding the witchcraft trials paralleled the contemporary political
climate of McCarthysim.” McCarthysim is Senator Joseph McCarthy's obsessive
quest to uncover a communist infiltration of American institutions.
Communism is a theory of social change advocating a classless society. In a
classless society there is chaos. In the following we will discuss how
Miller's political views and experiences effected his position on gender
and class in the crucible.
In a communist society, the male gender is always dominant. Women
aren't allowed to vote or hold political office. All they do is stay home
while the man of the house works, ...

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been accused of witchcraft in those days. Men were
the dominant gender. Tituba is a black servant who was spotted in the woods
supposedly practicing witchcraft. She is blamed for the crime, probably
because she is a servant of the lower class. But as the play goes on, a
more classless society comes into effect. That is when the women of the
upper class get blamed for the crime.
At the time of the play, women were afraid to accuse men of any
sore of crime. Reverend Hale is the man sent to Salem to investigate the
crime. When he asks Tituba if she saw anyone with the devil she says “Man
or woman. Was- was a women.” She didn't know who it was, but most
definitely it was a women. Being a servant in 1692, she knows that man
couldn't be accused of witchcraft. She really didn't see the person with
the devil because it was dark. So she just assumed that it was a women
because a man would have never been seen with the devil. If she had said
that she saw a man with the devil, no one would ...

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Added: 8/20/2005 01:50:05 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Free Paper
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