The Crucible and McCarthyism-Wrongly Accused

Wrongly Accused The events of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and those of the McCarthy scandals may be separated by some two hundred and sixty years, but are joined in the sense that elements of societies each sought only evidence of guilt. The events that occurred in these two situations show that even the most advanced of societies can be corrupted or mislead by things that are not true. Today, people believe that something like …

…enterprise as much individual and secular as collective and spiritual”(Kalsen 182). In the future it is important to be aware of the problems that have plagued those of societies before us. We must not be so ignorant as to believe that it will never happen again. This raises an important question to everyone living in our country right now, “Do Americans really believe that they have solved the problems of living for all time?”(Miller 160)