The Crucible And Similarities To The McCarthy Era
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Many times history tends to repeat itself. During the late 1600’s witch hunts occurred in Massachusetts; over two hundred years later a similar “witch hunt” occurred in the search for communists during the McCarthy era. The playwright Arthur Miller made connections between these two events ....
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.... a major role in causing the instability in the people. This instability gave certain people uncontrollable amounts of power. In Salem, many people turned on one another to save themselves from being victims of the witch hunts. These people were rather hypocritical and deceitful to their friends because they would often turn them in under false pretenses of practicing witchcraft even if they themselves were actually guilty. This hypocrisy caused hysteria in Salem because of the race to turn ....
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