1. Authority and Terror in Arthur Miller’s the Crucible.
- Author
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Ahmed, Mahmoud Rakan
- Subjects
TERROR ,SEVENTEENTH century ,COLD War, 1945-1991 ,POLITICAL systems ,AUTHORITY - Abstract
This paper aims to prove that the political system in America during the beginning of the Cold War used false claims ,established repressive censorship and unjust trials in order to create hegemonic atmosphere and unjustifiable horror in order to control its citizens, like the repressive and unjust trials which happened in the seventeenth century in Salem, Massachusetts. This paper exposes the parallel comparison between these trials of Salem to those of House un American Activities Committee (HUAC)in 1950’s, which in turn fallaciously accused some Americans of being communist and of supporting the radicals who tried to destroy America. Miller throughout the Crucible castigates the American system and calls to safeguard the individual liberty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2020