The Crucible
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The Cold War between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union was characterized by paranoia, fear, and propaganda. During the 1950s, the McCarthy hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC) were also characterized by paranoia, fear, and propaganda. During the hearings, employers turned in employees, family members turned in relatives, and friends turned in friends who they suspected of harboring communist sympathies or being involved in communist activities. In actuality, few of these individuals were un-American, but the atmosphere of paranoia, fear, and propaganda caused a breakdown in community and brotherhood. Arthur Miller, a playwright with socialist sympathies, viewed the HUAC hearings as a virtual witch-hunt, inspiring him to pen his play The Crucible. In the introduction to MillerÆs (1995) play, we are told, ôMiller is concerned with the breaking of the social contract that binds a community togetheràthe breaking of charity with one anotherö (xv). It is exactly this breaking of charity with one another that was characteristic of the McCarthy hear
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