What's McCarthyism got to do with The Crucible?
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Everything. \nMcCarthy sort of mimicked what they did during the Salem Witch Trials. Everyone was a witch (or a Communist, in McCarthy's case) until they proved that they weren't. Often, they couldn't prove that they weren't. I know from studying Dorothy Parker, a writer during the McCarthy era, she was put on the Blacklist of celebrities, so it was hard to get jobs.  Just as in The Crucible, reputations are damaged.\nIn short, The Crucible is Arthur Miller's way of sort of passively protesting what Joeseph McCarthy was doing, using history. It's sort of like the "you can tell the future with the past."
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McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. During this period people from all walks of life became the subject of aggressive "witch-hunts," often based on inconclusive or questionable evidence. It grew out of the Second Red Scare that began in the late 1940s and is named after the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin.\n\nThe term originates from March 29, 1950 political cartoon by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Herbert Block. The cartoon depicted four leading Republicans trying to push an elephant (the traditional symbol of the Republican Party) to stand on a teetering stack of ten tar buckets, the topmost of which was labelled "McCarthyism". The reluctant elephant was quoted in the caption as saying "You mean I'm supposed to stand on that?".\n\nWiki has a good write up of this topic and I would suggest that you read the link that I have given below:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism\n\nHope that Helps. All the Best. God Bless You
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I think propaganda goes along way to making people fanatically patriotic. Fear helps too - making people believe that their country is constantly under attack. Selective history, leaving out the bad parts and pumping up the good parts, helps. You can also create an us/them mentality to make people fanatically patriotic.
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People are not terrified of communism today or anything else!!!!!!!!The McCarthy era is over a long time ago!!
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It is fiction.\n\nIt was first published in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century and has been proven to be a hoax over and over again.\n\nThe most famous and definitive debunking was done by the Times of London in 1912.  It was found to be plagiarized, often word-for-word, from "Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu," by Maurice Joly, who was a famous French satirist.  The pamphlet (dialogues in Hell) was written to embarass Napoleon III; it had no connections whatsoever to the Jews.\n\nHere is a link to the document, translated to English:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/net3431/Dialogues_In_Hell.html\n\nYou can compare them yourself if you wish, but wiki does a pretty good job of demonstrating the more obvious passages:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion\n\nSince "Dialogues in Hell" was printed in 1864 (while Napoleon III was in power) and the Protocols didn't show up until the early 1900s, the proof is fairly incontrovertible.\n\nI think that the reason this hoax has been so widely believed is that it confirms people's own suspicions about the Jews.\n\nIf this subject interests you, you might be interested in Hannah Arendt's _The Origins of Totalitarianism_.  Although the latter half of the book is mostly dedicated to the rise of regimes, the first part has a fascinating history of anti-semitism.  She has a pretty compelling argument that explains why many believed (and believe) that the Jews control global politics.\n\nIf you're not convinced or you're interested in the subject, please e-mail me.  I've been working on a paper on anti-semitism in general and Eastern European Jewish conspiracy theories in particular.\n\n**This was edited because I'm moron who can't spell Napoleon.
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Well, as citizens we are being spied on. That has a resemblance to the McCarthy years. We have people imprisoned for years without due process. And the government is legislation morality which is wrong.
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HERO. McCarthy is my personal hero. His face is my screensaver n wallpaper on my pc. why would anyone think he was a bad guy?
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Hello,\n\nThe Crucible for me was a few years ago I went on it in 1997, the most thing that I remember was that it really tested your endurance and knowledge of Marine Corps basic Infantry moves, every Marine being a Rifleman you have to know how to take care of your squad, being only 5'6 the long hikes and carrying that pack were pretty tough, but it really brings you and your team and platoon together as one, and being called a Marine for the first time, climbing up the Reaper listening to Proud to be an American, it was very emotional, going through 13 weeks of intense training and knowing that it meant something, will be something I will never forget. \n\nSemper FI
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Not that those clowns are as competent as the Germans, but there is a "Mein Kampf" analogy.  Ten years before he did it, Hitler said "I am going to take over Europe and kill all the Jews."  People like Chamberlain basically said "you don't really mean that."  Oh yes he did.\n\nIf you want to be some kind of moral relatavist like Chrissy Hynde and say that we are no better than them, then fine (it's really not).   But if I may quote Winston* "If self preservation is an instinct you possess, pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fvcking car."\n\nGood, bad,or indifferent, these people want to kill us.  They especially want to kill people like Chrissy Hynde, which is funny.  We need to kill them before they kill us, hopefully after they kill Chrissy, but those animals are so indiscriminate that you really can't count on that.\n\n*Wolf, not Churchill
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First of all, it's an allegory to the fall of Russia, not an alliteration. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. As for what Orwell is saying, the story is about communism. In communism, the individual makes sacrifices for the society; rather than working for his own good, he works for the good of everyone, and takes no more than his fair share. The hard-working horse (I forgot his name) does everything he can for the society, and gives all he can. Going the other way, society has an obligation to keep each individual at an equal standard of living - nobody is lower than anybody else.
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well Nazi's and the Nat's (the apartheid government of the time) were both interested in seperating the citizens according to race/culture. Both used violent methods to do so. Both had an ideology of seperating the races in order to "protect" a certain race. Oh and neither worked in the end.
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McCarthyism in the US.\nThe Berlin Airlift\nThe Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, revolts against the state in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. the Soviet war in Afghanistan, conflicts in the Middle East with the Soviet Union supporting Arab nations and the US supporting Israel\nThe building of the Berlin Wall.\nNixon's visit to China.\nThe first space satellite launched by the Soviet Union and the subsequent space race which led to the moon landing by the US.
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Stereotyping again!  \n\nYou are refering to the extremes of the extremists.  Don't treat all Christains like the nut jobs on the far right & I won't treat all Athiests like the nut jobs on the far left!\n\nThe nut jobs on the far left are also trying to impose restrictions on individual liberties.  Just different liberties.  Socialistic philosophy poses a real threat to our right to private property (money I worked hard for IS property!)  Many seem to want to outlaw any public mention of anything Christian.  And what about the constitutional right to bear arms.  The extremeist want ALL guns abolished! (As if the criminals would comply)\n\nI wouldn't try to label ALL liberals as if they are this extreme.
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Incidental and irrelevant seems to be the campus answer.\n\nThe libs march in search of what they call truth, yet when that same object of desire appears as if it may cast an unfavorable light on their hero, suddenly the truth is "inconsequential".\nOdd.
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I think that quote came from a philosopher or a writer during the times wherein swords and spears are the only weapons and guns are not yet invented. These kind of men fought their government by writing novels,essays poems,etc. denouncing the dictatorship of their leaders. Instead of a bloody revolt,w/c means taking up arms (swords),they choose to convey their grievances w/c in turn influenced the public. Because of what they learned from the writings.the public revolt causing many governments to topple down.
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In a nutshell, Communism, at least as interpreted by the Bolsheviks, would lead inevitably to world domination.  Only after the world was under one governemnt could the utopia exist where everything got distributed equally and every one sang and danced all day, etc.  The United States, however, was and still is a sovreign nation not part of comintern (the Soviet term for the allied Communist states falling under the Warsaw Pact; the rest of the world referred to this as the Second World, however).  As such, the United States and its allies were seen as prime targets for Soviet spying and espionage with the vision in mind of subverting sovreign nations and republics the world over so that atheistic communism would reign.  Sen. Joseph McCarthy and many of his colleagues at the time fought tirelessly to expose Soviet agents working in sensitive governemnt positions, but many communist sympathizers slandered the good Senator and his efforts and so his name is continually defamed to this day.  A lot of thanks to a man who only tried to keep America alive...
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Their stance is that the author has passed off some gross historical inaccuracies as fact, and that Mr. Brown has essentially incited hatred against one of the church's prelatures (Opus Dei.)\n\nThe Catholic Church would be irresponsible if it allowed some of these libels to be spoken unchallenged. History has shown - with certain religious libels like the "Protocols of Zion" - that lives are literally at stake when religious hatred is sown.\n\nAnd if the Catholic Church will not stand up to an anti-Catholic writing.... who will?\n\nAll the people jumping up and down, shouting "How dare the Catholics defend themselves!" should ask themselves this. If the "Da Vinci Code" was about a bloodthirsty albino Rabbi hiding the reality of the Protocols (Priory) of Zion from the world, would you think that anti-Semitic?\n\nWhy should it be so different for Catholics?