Act I reflection, The Crucible

Last week we talked a lot about The crucible and how it relates to the enormous anti-communist movement during the beginning of the Cold War.  From what I can see just in the first act of The Crucible, this story is directly reflective of the anti-communist movement in the early 1950s.  Many people throughout the government were questioned and interrogated about being communists and who they knew were communists.  In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, many people were also questioned, but not about Communism.  they were questioned about witchcraft.  Many people had it in their head that many of the citizens of Salem were witches.  The same fever occurred again in the 1950s.  The country was paranoid about communists and they were scared of everything that could happen, therefore they persecuted many people and falsely accused many of them as communists because after long days of interrogation, they just gave the information that the interrogators wanted.  This same instance occurred in Salem, the citizens were so tired of being questioned that they just started naming people, especially those who were outcasts, as witches so they could get off themselves.  Both of these periods in history were very sad and should not have happened this way.  Many people were just scared, they could have handled their beliefs and fears.