The Crucible Mc Carthyism

There are many differences between the actual Salem witch trials and the reenactment portrayed in The Crucible. For example, in The Crucible it says that the witches were burned to death, but in reality they were hanged. Also, the people that were accused were not just strange and weird people that the government skillfully executed. They were strong in their obedience to the norm. In addition, the people didn’t get hallucinations from eating moldy rye wheat, but were actually suffering from encephalitis lethargica. The last major discrepancy is over the decent of Tituba. It was earlier assumed that she was of African decent but in fact she often referred to as “Indian Woman” from South American Arawak.

McCarthyism and its connections with The Crucible

There are several tactics that were used during the time of McCarthyism that relate to and were applied in The Crucible. One of the major thing was the idea of jumping on a bandwagon and