The Crucible and the Red Scare
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- Just admit it!!!
- I'd rather die than let you have your way!
- Just rat out your little commie friends already!
- I don't care what I lose, I'm not lying!
- These two scenes are very similar. Miller and Proctor are both possibly thrown in jail for not listening to authority immediately, and are threatened to comply to the man in power. The man on the other side in both scenarios is a man who thinks he his doing what's best for group of people, but is too prideful to see his own imperfections. The Crucible is an allegory to the Red Scare in this sense because in both scenarios, the person being convicted was being pushed to rat out their friends, even if neither them or their friends were actually witches/communists.
- You see this pierced doll!? It it clear evidence of your witchery!!
- 'Tis not, I swear!
- These books have communist scripts in them; how dare you have them in your possession!?
- What are you you even talking about?
- These two scenes are very similar in the sense that both Mrs. Proctor and the woman on the right were being convicted of very serious offenses over small, unrelated things. Despite both women telling them "this has nothing to do with it, nothing to do with me," the others tried to convict them anyways. A needle in a doll and a stack of books should be pretty mundane, but they couldn't do anything in either scenario, for hear of being locked up.
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