Allegory: The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.Written about US events in the 1600’s as an allegory to the US events of the 1950’s.This was an anti-Communist crusade in the early 1950’s.Also conducted internal screening programs on federal government employees conducted by the FBI. McCarthy felt that the people they summoned were anti-American and that this justified the extreme, even extra-legal measures.McCarthyism – termed after Senator Joseph McCarthy.The biggest threat was Communist Russia.Fear of Communism spreading in the United States.The Crucible’s Relationship to the 1950’s Salem witch trials were taking place because of fear and accusations.
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