For Miller, the punishment of the accused in Salem and the house un-American activities committee was death in different spheres. While Salem was bringing about literal death, the house un-American activities committee was bringing about a social, economic, and political death.
What was the house un-American activities committee?
- It was a committee responsible for investigating and punishing people involved with communism.
- It was one of the elements present in America during McCarthyism.
- It was a policy of social control.
During McCarthyism, the fight against communism was very intense, alarming, and irrationally conducted. Miller was one of the victims of McCarthyism when he was approached by the House Un-American Activities Committee as being accused of involvement with communism, and there was no evidence for this.
This incident prompted Miller to compare McCarthyism with the Salem Witches' accusations, as well as comparing the punishments carried out in Salem with the punishments carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Miller pointed out that in both situations the punishment was death, but that death was established in different ways. In Salem, death was literal and the accused was murdered. In the house un-American activities committee, death did not provoke murders, but killed the individual socially, preventing him or her from having a dignified and just live like any other citizen.
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