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Salem Witch Trials had to do with a group of girls accusing women for witch craft, while in McCarthyism a man accused people for being communist.

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What are differences between the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism?

they are during much different time periods. Mccarthyism took place during the 1940s, and the Salem witch trials took place in the 1640's.


How is McCarthyism connected to the Salem witch trials?

McCarthyism is a mob mentality driven by fear, often a fear of something nonexistent. So the Salem witch trials is a great example of McCarthyism, for the people of colonial Massachusetts were driven by mob mentality and fear.


How does this jonestown and Salem witch trials compare and contrast?

The only comparison is that people were killed. The Salem trials were legal trials caused by a religious panic and was contained to a single county. Only twenty people died and those deaths were technically legalized. Jonestown was sheer massacre because of cultish mentality.


How would the Salem witch trials connect to McCarthyism?

First, I must point out that the correct phrasing is 'how would McCarthyism connect to the Salem Witch trials" as the Salem panic occurred earlier. That being said, there is no direct connection. Nothing that happened in Salem affected or influenced McCarthyism. However, they are often associated because of Arthur Miller's Crucible, a play extremely loosely based on the events Salem. Miller wrote the play using the most general facts about Salem to juxtapose the two in order to show the similarities between the ridiculous nature of the Salem accusations and the McCarthyist accusations.


Arthur Miller's dramatic portrayal of Salem leading up to the witch trials?

Miller's play is titled "The Crucible." Is not a factual history of the event, but a mangling of facts and theories about the trials to create an allegory to 1950s McCarthyism.

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Why did Arthur miller choose to write a novel about a692 and the Salem witch trials?

They are easy to compare to McCarthyism and Miller was trying to make a point about McCarthyism. The Trials are also different enough that he could not get in trouble for writing about them to write about a senator.


What are differences between the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism?

they are during much different time periods. Mccarthyism took place during the 1940s, and the Salem witch trials took place in the 1640's.


How is McCarthyism connected to the Salem witch trials?

McCarthyism is a mob mentality driven by fear, often a fear of something nonexistent. So the Salem witch trials is a great example of McCarthyism, for the people of colonial Massachusetts were driven by mob mentality and fear.


How are the Salem witch trials and maccarthyism different?

The Salem Witch Trials were done for religious purposes. (witches- people who work with Satan) McCarthyism was done for political purposes. (communists)


Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible?

The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller in which he mangled facts and theories about the trials to create an allegory to McCarthyism in the 1950s.


How does this jonestown and Salem witch trials compare and contrast?

The only comparison is that people were killed. The Salem trials were legal trials caused by a religious panic and was contained to a single county. Only twenty people died and those deaths were technically legalized. Jonestown was sheer massacre because of cultish mentality.


How would the Salem witch trials connect to McCarthyism?

First, I must point out that the correct phrasing is 'how would McCarthyism connect to the Salem Witch trials" as the Salem panic occurred earlier. That being said, there is no direct connection. Nothing that happened in Salem affected or influenced McCarthyism. However, they are often associated because of Arthur Miller's Crucible, a play extremely loosely based on the events Salem. Miller wrote the play using the most general facts about Salem to juxtapose the two in order to show the similarities between the ridiculous nature of the Salem accusations and the McCarthyist accusations.


What is a similarity between the Salem witchcraft trials and The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

The Crucible tells about the Salem panic using facts that make the panic into a close parallel with McCarthyism.


How are the Salem witch trails related to The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

The correct way to phrase the question is "How is the Crucible related to the Salem Witch Trials." More important and/or older event first. The Crucible is a play that mangles facts and theories about the trials to create an allegory to 1950s McCarthyism.


Arthur Miller's dramatic portrayal of Salem leading up to the witch trials?

Miller's play is titled "The Crucible." Is not a factual history of the event, but a mangling of facts and theories about the trials to create an allegory to 1950s McCarthyism.


How was the Arthur Miller play The Crucible effected by the McCarthyism and the political climit of 1950's America?

mccarthyism=witchcraft=the crucible!! am studyin it gcse lol x


Why would Arthur miller title a play based on the Salem witch trials The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

Miller was trying to make an allegory to McCarthyism. The Salem witchcraft scare was easy to manipulate to create the result he wanted and was distant enough from McCarthyism he could talk his way out of a sedition lawsuit or being called out as a communist.