Crucible+Comparisons


 * In the Crucible, women were accused of being witches even when they did not perform witchcraft. If the women did not confess to witchcraft, they were sent to jail or hanged. During the Red Scare, Arthur Miller was asked to apologize of an interest in Marxism. He refused to apologize for the interest and was fined and sent to trial.
 * John McCarthy compares to Abigail in the Crucible. McCarthy would accuse people of being communist and Abigail would accuse women of being witches.
 * Arthur Miller compares to John Proctor. Miller refused to apologize for the interest in Marxism. Since he refused, he was fined and sent to trial. Proctor was accused of wizardry. He was then sent to jail and had the chance to confess, but did not.
 * During the time of the Red Scare, people were being accused of being communist. In the Crucible, people were being accused of witchcraft and wizardry.

On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda extremists crashed two passenger airliners into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, and crashed one in Shanksville, PA. These attacks sprouted panic among U.S. citizens. Many parents withdrew their children from school that day. Airport security locked down air-tight. People of Middle-Eastern decent were discriminated. I remember that we had a few students from Afghanistan in our school. Many kids were rather vile to them for a few weeks afterwards. The teachers had to try to explain what happened to kids who were still trying to learn math. ([])

PIGS! When reports of a new strand of flu, H1N1, or SWINE FLU, began, many people stated shunning pig meat of all verities. Even though this SIWNE FLU could not be transfered through eating meat, many people foolishly believed that it could. This put a hurting on pig farmers across the nation. Then schools started new health education in forms of letters to parents, lessons on hygiene, anti-bacterial (Really? Against a virus?!?) soap, and general fear of this flu that is comparable to seasonal flu. ([])

In the 1940's the United States was at war with the Axis of Evil, the countries of Italy, Germany, and Japan. The war with Japan in the Pacific theatre of World War II became the most brutal part of the war, next to the holocaust. The Japanese troops committed atrocities against POWs. Stories of the war came back to the United States, where many people began to shun those of Japanese decent. Some would even go as far as to accuse a friend of espionage just because they were of Japanese Decent. ([])