The Crucible: Context (The Cold War, McCarthyism and HUAC)

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In this video, we introduce you to some of the fundamental contextual factors that influenced Arthur Miller's composition of the play 'The Crucible', namely the Cold War, McCarthyism and the HUAC investigations. When constructing an essay about the play and its representations of human experiences (fear, isolation, power etc.), be sure to include these considerations of context and connect them to your more technical analysis, as the paranoia of Miller's time was integral to his writing.
***CORRECTION: The first photograph is of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev (not Stalin)
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26 июл 2024

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@stephenpalmer2429 4 года назад

The first photograph is of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.

@jeddle 3 года назад

Thank you for the correction!

@mastruction4132 3 года назад

Thank you so much. You don't know how much this helped me

@gabrielgunakabelen2982 3 года назад

Thanks so much- warm greetings from Jakarta Indonesia

@elifferdaerol6736 3 года назад

thank you so much, this video totally gave me a better understanding of, like, everything lol

@jeddle 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@Funny_ShortsVIXx 2 года назад

Thank you soooooooo much🙏🏻💕

@hiodom8971 2 года назад

you're srsly the best

@DorsalFin_ 4 года назад

cheers, helped with revision for trials

@jeddle 4 года назад

Thanks so much, hope it went well!

@bradie3793 3 года назад

thanks a lot! english paper 1 tomorrow :|

@sheemie 4 года назад

amazing

@yaelvargaskusnir 4 года назад

Great way to gather history and fiction in an analysis, I really liked it. I don't know much about the author, but did he say in real life that he took the cold war as inspiration for his work? or that is just a guess

@jeddle 4 года назад

Yep, he has explicitly said that it was a key source of inspiration, in particular the McCarthy Trials during the 1950's. Check out Miller's essay on "Why I Wrote The Crucible": www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/why-i-wrote-the-crucible

@jeddle 4 года назад

@wippity wine Fair play.

@jiminbang5822 3 года назад

If you want he's particularly famous for once being married to Marilyn Monroe

@marcnsengimana8845 Месяц назад

Good teacher,you helped me

@emilynguyen1964 4 года назад

thanks this helped with my homework

@jeddle 4 года назад

Thanks for your feedback :)

@tara0911 3 года назад

Thanks for the video, but the person is Nikita Khrushchev and not Stalin.

@australianpatriot 5 лет назад

lit af

@jeddle 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@crossfire1122 Месяц назад

A summary for homework The video demonstrates the allegory between the Salem with trials and the Cold War/ McCarthyism, and it also shows the flaws of this comparison. It goes into detail about the red scare and the mass hysteria in the country. It is written at the height of this red scare which is why it was very controversial at the time. Hundreds of people are accused in both, however many in McCarthyism were actually communists which shows that in my opinion it is not a very good comparison.

@jeddle Месяц назад

Thanks for the comment! It's an interesting observation. Certainly in hindsight you can make the argument that communists were real whilst witches were not, however the relevant detail is that AT THE TIME OF the Salem witch trials (1690's), witches were believed to be JUST AS REAL as communists. So the perceived threat was relatively the same in both periods, hence making it an effective analogy.

@brianagayle6476 3 года назад

I have question why Arthur Miller present before we ever read a line of the play.

@chromecable 3 года назад

English teacher be like: What does the noose represent in the story? Maybe death, or the end? Students: It literally represents a noose.

@chromecable 3 года назад

I used a noose because it was a common form of execution during the Salem Witch Trials

@snaithobrodie 11 месяцев назад

thanks, trials tomorrow ;)

@timwhite794 3 года назад

Please get the historical information correct. The Russian figure is Nikita Kruschev, and that has a bearing on the context. The uncritical restatement of Cold War propaganda that The United States ( not ‘America’ as that refers to the entirety of both continents,) somehow embodied ‘freedom’ and the Communist countries were universally opposed to it is reductionist and misleading. Also the idea that the war was ‘all talk and no action’ is inaccurate and misleading. Would you tell the people of Cuba who were facing military intervention by the US that there was ‘no action’, or the folk in Czechoslovakia and East Germany there was ‘no action’?

@jeddle 3 года назад

Thanks Tim, really appreciate the critical response. It was unfortunate that the image was mischaracterised and so I thank you for the correction. Our hope is that viewers can still take away the general idea of the context, as we are deliberately simplifying things to make them more accessible for students of the text. Understanding the nuance of each contextual detail is of course essential for an in-depth study but in this particular video, we have aimed to provide a useful summary of some of the key aspects of the context that are worth exploring further.

@christopha1656 3 года назад

bRO clutch up

@spoanyan4809 4 года назад

The first photo shows JFK and Winston Churchill, not Stalin

@davidnorris166 4 года назад

Actually, this is Nikita Khrushchev and is a reference to the Cuban Missle Crisis. See image here for reference: d.newsweek.com/en/full/250734/nikita-khrushchev.jpg

@MCPEMINOL 4 года назад

Thats no churcbilll

@musfirakhurshid 4 года назад

Justin Pu i worry for you

@viking_warlordce Год назад

Churchill had nothing to do with the cold war. i don't think he was even in office at that time.

@timothyspool1399 Год назад

"All threats and no actions" - Tell that to the millions of people that died as communism spread through Russia, China and other smaller non-Western countries. I'm sure the Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodians would tell you it wasn't merely threats. "...but a very extreme versions of communist" - Pretty much the standard version of communist actually. There is no "totalitarian communism". There is only communism. Please seek out further sources if you want an accurate description of what it really meant for countries that were subjected to communism (and still does in some places). I know the guy in the video claims that it doesn't matter, but to really provide the correct context for the play, you need to have an accurate understanding of what kind of a threat communism was to any free country at that time.