I’m Not a Witch… or a Communist! I Plead the 5th!

When the United States participated in the Cold War in the 1950s, when American Senator Joseph McCarthy announced that there was a communist spy, it caused huge hysteria among citizens. This has led to devastating lives of many innocent Americans. A similar incident occurred at the trial of the Salem Witch of 1692. During this period, witches were thought to invade the religious Puritan society. Doubt of magic in Salem caused civic hysteria and destroyed many outstanding Christians and their families.

The correct cause of the new witch hunt was the anti-communist movement of the 1950s led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Fictional wizards of the time were accused as Communists and traitors and were on McCarthy's mysterious "list", but most of them were unjustly on the blacklist or not enough innocent lives destroyed And McCarthy was humiliated from the world. During the McCarthy era, the majority of the public's fear of excessive pursuit of Communist threats and conspirators and scapegoats is a pattern that repeats in the American history tracked by historian Richard Hofstaster did. In his article "The Imagination Style in American Politics", Hofstadter wrote that a political delusion spokesperson would find it for the whole country or culture, unlike clinical delusions that see a conspiracy peculiar to himself It is.

Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is a partial fictitious interpretation of the Salem Witch trial, and its writing is similar to that of the US government during the red panic. "Since the Crucible began with real magical events, the" red panic "began with real communism and treason within the US government, the John McCarthy's speech began Communist hunting, He stated the facts about political workers who had obvious communist features like "Gustav Duran". International Communists, but still "Assistant Secretary of State". The claim of Latin America situation went to "McCarthy, Director of Cultural Activities of the Deputy Secretary-General's Office if he was pronounced communism.