At the South Plantation High School production of “The Crucible”‚ the students took a new twist on modern acting. The entire production was done in American Sign Language (ASL) with only two people saying every person’s lines for him or her. Through this interesting interpretation‚ the actors/actresses were extremely talented at portraying emotion without uttering a single word. “The Crucible” is fictional play created in 1953 by Arthur Miller based off of the Salem witch trials in the 1690s.
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Did witches truly exist? “Johann Weyer (1515-88) was the first critic to deny the existence of witches altogether‚ arguing that it was not the witches who were recruited by the devil to harm mankind‚ but that the very belief that witches existed at all was a harmful diabolical invention” (pg. 280). Weyer used a close examination of the study of language‚ terminology‚ and translation of scripture and documents to refute the existence of witches through logic and detailed argumentative analysis.
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Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible" was an allegory to the well-known mass hysteria‚ the Red Scare. Many mass hysterias have occurred before and after the Red Scare like Y2K‚ War of the Worlds‚ and Muslims in the U.S. In "The Crucible" accusations of witchcraft worried townspeople and made them panic‚ much like Y2K. Many experst had claimed in 1999 that the world would end in the year 2000. The reasoning behind this absurd accusation was that the Mayan calender had stopped at the 2000th year. Many people
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In history there a few monsters that are neigh invulnerable. Creatures so mighty that only a few can defeat them‚ the Teumessian Fox and Jersey Devil are two such monsters. The Jersey Devil is a monster that has both much known about yet still manages to be mysterious. It has many different variations of how it occurred‚ but they all lead to a Mrs. Reeds giving birth to a devil. At one point or another it escaped out of her house‚ and was then exercised by a clergy. The Jersey Devil then disappeared
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Giles Cory was‚ an 81 year old man stoned to death‚ on September 19‚ 1692. As rocks were piled on him one after another‚ his last words were “More Weight”.. One historical day‚ the slave Tituba and local white women were accused by Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail Williams of practicing witchcraft. For several months‚ the girls started showing weird behavior such as “going into holes‚ and creeping under stools and chairs.” The accused women were sent to jail in Boston‚ but Tituba confessed to
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The accusations started to make the Puritans think that witches were around after carrying on this belief with them from Europe which caused the magistrates to take these matters seriously. Tituba was first in the Puritan girls accusations‚ Tituba eventually admitted to being a witch claiming that devil forced her to do so and said that evil was looming over Salem. Two other women who were alleged as witches denied any wrongdoing but because of Tituba’s testimony‚ the view of the people changed.
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Witches have been around for many centuries. Premodern texts primarily claimed that witches were female who work with the devil to bring about harm. Although there are some modern texts that argue against the stereotype‚ many follow the same reasoning of female witches. The show Supernatural is a modern example of this ideology. Two brothers‚ Sam and Dean Winchester travel all around the country to fight evil spirits. During one of their trips‚ they come across some witchcraft. This leads them to
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“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18)‚ this was a passage that the Puritans lived by. The Salem Witch Trials took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 and claimed the lives of many innocent people. It led to the hangings of almost twenty‚ leaving more than one hundred in prison. A group of young girls in Salem Village accused several local women of witchcraft while being claimed of being possessed by the devil. This is causing a wave of hysteria to spread throughout colonial
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Salem Witch Trials The Salem witch trials were a very gruesome part of America’s history. The punishments they used to determine whether the person was a witch or nit was inhuman. Basically‚ these people had two choices. They either would get tortured and confess and be killed or not confess but still die from the torture being brought upon them. The Salem witch trials impacted history in its own way. Torture throughout history can be read and understood‚ however‚ it is a different kind of punishment
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The Salem Witch Trials were a drawn out‚ scary time in the history of Salem‚ Massachusetts. These trials split many families and friends apart. Although witch trials were common back then‚ they have seemed to disappear from the world and the public eye. I.A. The Salem Witch trials started when several young girls accused three townspeople of witchcraft. After that day strange unexplainable events would occur (Curry‚ pg. 4). In the doctor’s view the strange behaviors could not be a result of
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