is anyone familiar with the crucible by Arthur miller?

Question

i need to connect the play to contemporary american society. something along the lines of the themes of the play. this includes:: fear drives peoples actions, revenge gets in the way of morality. anything that has happened in our society from 2000 and up works. thanks. =]

i need to connect it to contemporary american society. and event that has happend after 2000. anything but the war is good. i know too many people doing that. i have to connect in some sense of the themes:: fear influences peoples actions, revenge gets in the way pf peoples morals, fear and revenge blinds a person from innocence.

thanks.

Answer 1

connect the ridiculosoty (that should be a word) of the witch hunt to peoples' paranoia of Middle Easterners especially after 9-11

Answer 2

Arthur Miller actually wrote the play as a response to McCarthyism in the 50s. But there is another "witch hunt" of sorts right now, in how we are handling the war on terror. If someone is suspected of being a terrorist, they can be locked up indefinitely with no way to prove their innocence.

I guess if you don't want to go with the war on terror, you could write about the anti-immigrant movement (border patrol, ICE raids, "English Only" signs, etc. People are afraid that illegal immigrants are sponging off of taxpayer money, driving down wages for manual labor, ruining communities with drinking and gangs, and more. It's not as good of an analogy as the war, but it is something different.

Answer 3

you could do wo we reacted to 9/11, sending troops to the middle east for really ne reason...the best example is Joe McCarthy and the red scare in the 1950's