How was 1992 and 1933 similar in histor? Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible was a lot like The Holocaust. Although the two events have many differences‚ the similarities are what is most important in today’s history. In 1692‚ The Salem Witch Trials occurred. People were in a state of hysteria and began to blame people for witchcraft and conjuring the devil. Many of the towns people were falsely accused and twenty people were executed(Miller‚1124). Several people that were accused of witchcraft
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ABSTRACT: When the witch trials started‚ it seemed the only way to prove you were not a witch was to be a witch. People were faced with impractical‚ and certainly deadly tasks in order to prove they were not a witch. Tasks they would only survive if they in fact had witchlike powers. In this paper I will argue as to why these trials were irrational. I will draw on reasons and rational from individuals such as Beccaria‚ Wollstonecraft‚ Locke‚ and Voltaire. The history of the witch trials is a grime‚ gruesome
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What happened during the Salem Witchcraft Trials? The Salem Witch Trials started in Spring of 1692 and lasted until September of 1692. It was believed that people were possessed by the Devil. There were over 150 people accused. The first conviction was in June. As a result‚ 19 people were hanged. There was weird behavior coming from some of the girls. According to the History Channel‚ they “began having fits‚ including violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming”. The odd behavior
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the witch trials of Salem that took place in the 1690s (as reported by Arthur Miller in The Crucible)‚ and the second is the massive anti-communism movement that took place in the United-States between 1947 and 1954. By looking at the facts found in the play‚ and by looking at the history of the anti-communism movement ‚ we will make the parrallels between these two major crimes against freedom of expression. Arthur Miller ’s play is written in a way that really shows the parrallels between the
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Holly Gubser Ms. Wilson English 11/ Period 3 1 May 2014 McCarthyism and the Crucible Throughout history there have been many events that are direct parallels of each other. These parallels are evident in Joseph McCarthy’s‚ McCarthyism and in Arthur Miller’s‚ the Crucible. McCarthyism was the fear of communism that was created by the Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. This was a time of fear after the Second World War in the years 1950 through 1954. McCarthy had conducted hearings accusing people
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Arthur Miller had wrote The Crucible Because he believed that The Salem Panic was very similar to The McCarthy era since people were getting wrongfully accused of being apart of witchcraft. He was inspired to write a drama that would reflect the Salem cultural and political hysteria produced while the U.S. gov.expressed Communism in America. The McCarthy era was very similar to the Salem witch trials. Just like the McCarthy era‚ the girls in the Crucible made claims about members of the village
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many similarities and some differences between the issues and conditions in the play The Crucible and the issues and conditions faced by the United States during McCarthyism‚ but there are more similarities that are important than differences. One similarity would be that if you were a accused‚ in both situations‚ it would ruin your reputation. In both cases‚ you are guilty until proven innocent. Isn’t that unfair? Civilians were scared of communism like those in Salem were of witchcraft. In both
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McCarthyism and The Crucible Arthur Miller`s The Crucible is a timeless classic of witchcraft that is rooted in accusations and political motives. The crucible is set during the Salem witch trails and it centers on a young girl‚ Abigail Williams‚ and her quest to meet all of her selfish desires. A group of girls‚ led by Abigail accuse town people of witchcraft to cover up the fact that they were dancing in the forest. She eventually blames Elizabeth Proctor for witchcraft‚ so she will have Elizabeth`s
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of thousands of potentially innocent people. Even though many were against McCarthy and his practices‚ they dared not to speak out for fear of being accused. The happenings in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller were eerily reminiscent of those during the period of McCarthyism. In The Crucible the town of Salem became ruled by fear during 1692‚ when the possibility that witchcraft had occurred was discovered. It quickly became a case of blame or be blamed with a group of teenage girls‚ led by Abigail
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similarities to the Salem Witch Trials. In both the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism fear‚ hysteria‚ and danger were common. A type of evidence called “spectral evidence” was being used in both situations and Miller used his play‚ The Crucible‚ as an allegory for McCarthyism to tell one story with an even deeper meaning. McCarthyism and the Salem Witch trials relied on public hysteria and spectral evidence to influence people and control them. An important similarity between the Salem Witch Trials and Sen
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