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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureMythology & Folklore · 1 decade ago

why does arthur miller object to the US witch hunts?

why does arthur miller object tot the US witch hunts

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Is this homework? Arthur Miller is no longer alive, but while he lived he was considered only the second intellectual American ever discovered. Read his work, understand a little more about American attitudes, you cannot give one-liners to sum up a man and his beliefs.

  • 1 decade ago

    Who's Arthur Miller~?

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    In my techniques, that's been happening all throughout the time of historic previous, just to different human beings in different techniques. think of of the Crusades, take place destiny, the Holocaust, and others. i actually have confidence that once a majority is going on a mob mentality of justice, something will circulate horribly incorrect. If not quickly, at last. This united states replace into based by the minority, and so replace into another truly staggering concept. Galileo, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. all have been area of a minority flow. Even inspect situations the place the final public had the say in issues. Slavery, to call one replace right into a majority stance that variety into deemed ok. even while loud voices broadcasted that's repulsiveness, it replace into nonetheless majorly popular. a variety of of the north did not like it, yet they have been prepared to maintain their mouths close, so as that African individuals does not circulate into the North to take their jobs. The witchhunt, in my opinion is purely yet another occasion of this. as quickly as one incident occured to propel a majority mob mentality, very almost not something might desire to sluggish it down. i think of each and each time a majority says something, the assumption or concept might desire to be critiqued, judged, and debated. beneficial that's unpopular, yet somebody has to assert notwithstanding if something is okay or not ok. not saying something, purely following like a blind sheep, is worse than being unfavored on the time.

  • Vaughn
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    The Salem witch trials he wrote about? Or the McCarthyism debacle, which he was commenting on? Both were horrible examples of injustice.

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  • 1 decade ago

    He was objecting to McCarthyism. It seems that the USA has to be paranoid about something. It used to be Communism, now its Islamic fundamentalism. Strange that they aren't paranoid about fascism.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If you're referring to 'The Crucible' it was written as a metaphor for the McCarthy anti-communist crusade going on at the time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the guy who ran the dance studios? oh that's arthur murray ...never mind

  • maxie
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    He himself was accused of being a communist.

  • 1 decade ago

    read it again.

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