"Are You Now or Were You ever?"

1. I think his attempt to make life real again through "The Crucible" was to show the public how ridiculous McCarthy's accusations were. He used a historic event and made it a metaphor for the mass hysteria of McCarthy's era. He attempted to make the craziness of it clear basically

2. It was one of the few to state that he liked the idea of socialism and thought of it in a positive manor dispite all the harsh critisism it was taking in. It drew attention towards different ideas and maybe shed some light on the one-sidedness of McCarthy

3. Individual freedoms are always endanger of being violated when conformity prevolant. Based on the rumors, people were either forced to confess or killed. Therefore, the accused gave up their reputations in order to stay alive. The courts conformed to the ideas of witchery, embrased it, and were ready to procecute anyone suspecting to have possesion of evil magic.

4. I think he means that the most important things that you need to remember in order to think clearly are often forgotten due to the words and views of others. People need to remember their common sense and instinct. All those accusations during the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy era were completly biased. They could make up silly stories in order to bring down the people that they didn't like or opposed them. They used a sensitive, easily believed subject and turned it against their enimies for personal gain and the people's blind, bended opinions were easily manipulated due to fear that already existed. The people had forgotten how to take the lies and separate them from what was obviously the truth.