Monday, September 19, 2011

Are you now or were you ever

1. He attempted to make life real again through his play by making a sattire about the whole McCarthysim ordeal. He attemmpted to bring the real issues with McCarthy and the communist in an entertaining way. In his own way, Miller was saying that McCarthy was basically doing witch hunts.
2.HIs criticism was that the left side demanded that the right side of government validaate their politcal views and when the right side asked the same of the left, they remained silent. Paul Robeson's testimony put to liight what many Americans were still in the dark about.
3.The theme would be realizations. This relates because that was the entire point of The Crucible. The purpose was for Americans to realize what was happpening with McCarthyism.
4.What he means is that people can be easily brainwashed into believing what others want them to believe. What is so vital to remember is right and wrong, and also common sense

1 comment:

  1. Common typos in some spots, but otherwise it was great. Keep it up. (:

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