Arthur wrote The Crucible in 1953‚ at the time when the Second World War had just ended but still there was a clash of capitalists and communists. What would you do if the witch hunts happened in this modern era? Arthur Miller wrote this book because of the incidents that occurred during the 1950’s. Senator Joseph McCarthy had a suspicion of communism in the United States. So he started a witch hunt to find the communists in the United States and he targeted celebrities of Hollywood such as Lucille
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The Crucible was a brilliant representation of mass hysteria. The examples are very limited when it comes to panic on as great a scale of which the Salem Witch Trials created. The reasons for there are not a large amount of examples is because the timing must be perfect to achieve the range of hysteria as seen in The Crucible.The hysteria was only entrenched so deeply in Salem for the following reasons: people urged the panic on for selfish reasons leading to panic‚ religion and state not being
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Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 Throughout the late 17th century‚ the New England town of Salem‚ Massachusetts experienced a horrific religious episode. The time known as the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 cost the life of 20 men and women. One of the contributing factors that led to this incident was the social rivalry of the Putnam and Porter families. The Putnam family resented the Porters and blamed them for their loss of wealth and political influence. The Salem witch trials were also
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Motivations of Reverend Parris‚ Abigail and the Putnams The witch trials supply Reverend Parris in numerous key ways. Initially he was frightened that any indication of witchcraft be established in his home; he has been the Reverend after all‚ has not been establishing in effectively with the community. If it was established that it was his home that was the origin of witchcraft‚ he would end up being unemployed. However‚ it eventually ends up in his favor. As soon as witchcraft is found in his
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ mass hysteria sweeps over a small puritan town in Salem. The mass hysteria spreads like a contagious disease. It is caused by people and culture. This essay will discuss the causes and effects of mass hysteria in a small town. Mass hysteria is a condition affecting a group of persons‚ characterized by excitement or anxiety‚ irrational behavior or beliefs. Typically‚ it takes a large group of people with the same thoughts or ideas to cause the hysteria to spread. In other
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two events that happened hundreds of years apart be strikingly similar? The themes and events of the Salem witch trails and McCarthyism era are very similar but still very different. The two events happened in the US history. The Salem witch trails happened in the year 1692 ‚ while the McCarthyism era was going on in the 1950-60 . The events happened 258 years apart. In both the witch trails and McCarthyism the accusations where based on pointless facts. “They be telling lies about my wife” (miller214)
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The Crucible: The Witchcraft Hysteria In 1692‚ in Salem Massachusetts‚ the superstition of witches existed in a society of strong Christian beliefs. Anybody who acted out of the ordinary was accused of being a witch and then the accuse would actually be forgiven if the blamed their accusations on another individual. This was the main idea of a play entitled‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In this play a group of young girls act up and are then accused of being witches. These girls then blame
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accusations which led to trials‚ torture‚ imprisonment‚ and executions. Mass hysteria is characterized by the rapid spread of conversion disorder‚ a condition involving the appearance of bodily complaints for which there is no organic basis. In such episodes‚ psychological distress is converted or channeled into physical symptoms. Symptoms typically include headache‚ dizziness‚ nausea‚ breathlessness‚ and general weakness. Motor hysteria is common in intolerable social situations such as strict school and
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor proclaims “Because it is my name! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of those who hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” This quote shows both the dilemma in the Salem Witch Trials‚ which Arthur Miller set his story in‚ and the era of McCarthyism which he kind of writes about; John was going to confess to being a witch but couldn’t because he didn’t want to ruin
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Mass hysteria can exist when a number of people behave in an uncontrollable‚ unmanageable way because of fear and/or anger. Arthur Miller easily shows this in the play The Crucible which takes place in the late 1600’s in Salem‚ Massachusetts when more than one-hundred people were getting accused of being witches. United State Senator Joseph McCarthy had done something similar to this when he had accused many people of being “Reds” or communists during the Red Scare going throughout the United States
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