Salem witch trials where lives were taken and destroyed by accusations of witchcraft. Lives were taken and destroyed as a result of people agreeing about a situation before they saw the whole truth. Trust was lost which caused chaos‚ and that
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English 11 Block 2 3 October 2012 Fear Makes People Crazy Fear can cause people to overreact and lose all rational thinking. The evidence for this statement is found in the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism. The 1692‚ Abigail Williams and a group of girls turned the town of Salem upside down in a fear driven witch hunt. The girls accused innocent people of being witches in order to avoid getting in trouble for dancing in the woods. Fear of being accused of witchery caused the town’s people to
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The Salem Witch Trials were written in the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is a story about the trials in town called Salem; in this town a group of girls led by Abigail goes to the woods and dances. Abigail’s uncle‚ Samuel Parris‚ found them dancing in the woods‚ which causes the whole town to go into hysteria. The town starts accusing each other of witchcraft. Samuel Parris is a minister that is terrified that the town will throw him out for being associated with witch craft. He
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characters; John Proctor‚ Abigail Williams and Reverend Hale. The Crucible by Arthur Miller was based on the Salem witch trials that occurred between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were executed. Eventually the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those who were convicted. Ever since‚ the story of the trials has become a symbol of injustice and continues to influence more than 300 years later. In the play John Proctor
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When entering the first day of high school‚ many people come prepared perfect outfit‚ straighten hair‚ precise eyeliner and books colored coded. They are ready to get their name out there‚ make honor roll every semester and let everyone know who they are‚ but then they start valuing parties instead of schools‚ they rathered be intoxicated with strangers then sleepover with friends from kingerardern. They found themselves in a bad decision and picking the wrong choice of how to get out of it. They
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Hannah Youssef Mrs. Press Period 2 English 10 H The Crucible Essay The play‚ The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller is a cautionary tale. Miller warns his audience that the witch hunts and the Salem Witch Trials was a very tragic time period and we must not mimic what had occurred in the past in 1692. This affected many aspects of people’s lives. It cautions us to keep history from repeating itself. A way to prevent this is to avoid tolerance against ignorant power hungry officials at all cost so that
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play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem‚ Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events‚ Miller’s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem‚ rumours that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town’s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch‚ self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness
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Abigail is the first person you would think of when looking for someone to blame for the Salem witch trials. This is because she is seen as the ringleader of the girls who were accusing people of being witches. The first thing we learn about Abby in the stage directions is “an orphan with an endless capacity for dissembling’ this shows us straight away that she likes to cause trouble. In the first act we learn that she has had an affair with proctor. He’s says ‘ill not be comin’ for you no more’
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Puritan minister. Another member of Salem who is seeking to have power is Putnam‚ he exploits the entire trial in hope that he gains land from all the accused families in the witch trial. Each one of these people do anything and everything they can to get what they want‚ power. The huge desire for all this power brings them to extreme measures ‚ wrongful blaming in the entire witch Salem witch trial because for every action there is a consequence. In the world we call Abligail’s‚ she believes that her
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name someone as a witch. One of the greatest examples of how the hysteria brought upon lethal allegations for some of Salem’s citizen is the case of Bridget Bishop‚ the first person to be tried and executed for witchcraft in Salem. The story of Bridget Bishop is a sad yet enlightening account on the events that took place throughout the course of the witch hunt. Bishop’s case involves every dynamic thought likely by historians to have aided in the severity and length of the trials. Her life before
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