1. The Crucible: Play Vs. Film
Arthur Millers' The Crucible depicts the Salem witch trials during the end of the seventeenth century. ... As we turn another page in history, the real question is whether the witch-hunts ended in the 1690's or was the "Red Scare" of Senator Joseph McCarthy of the 1950's another example of how radicals have been used to repress civil rights. ... Senator Joseph McCarthy was conducting his "witch hunt" for Communists within U.S. society. ... It cannot be helped, but to continue the comparison between the Salem witch trials, and the anticommunist committee's work, throughout ...
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- Grade Level: High School