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    calling you a witch and a traitor. This is what it must have been like to live in seventeenth century Massachusetts. In 1692‚ mass hysteria swept over Salem village. Hundreds of people were accused of being witches. Many innocent people were killed because of the accusations pinned against them. Many historians researched the Salem witch trials and The Crucible and found that politics played a big role in the trials. The politics of Salem village were a major cause of the Salem witch trials. First‚

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    In Arthur Miller’s allegorical play “The Crucible‚” the characters share in a common state of hysteria‚ as reflected in the paranoid and conspiratorial mindset that allows for a witch-hunt to take root. Mrs. Putnam‚ the grieving wife of Thomas Putnam‚ firmly believes that a witch is responsible for the deaths of her seven infant children. Mrs. Putnam questions Rebecca Nurse as to whether or not she believes that it is God’s choice as to why Rebecca would never lose a child or grandchild‚ and yet

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    Crucible: Movie vs. Book

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    AP Language and Composition 3 December 2012 Factual Changes Within The Crucible While reading Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ the audience may believe the play is a literal representation of the events that occurred in the Salem Witch Trials. Despite this‚ many aspects of the play are in fact fictional. Arthur Miller concocted each of the fictive details in the play purposely. Behind each of the modifications Miller made‚ lies a specific reason for that particular change. Within The Crucible‚

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    factors that contribute to the initiation and the escalation of the witch hunts in Salem. Partisans truly believed in the existence of witches‚ as it was recognize as a sin against God in the bible. This caused their society to accredit any unnatural happenings to the Devil. When Ruth and Betty cannot wake‚ Ann Putnam blames her daughters unconscious state and the deaths of her unbaptized babies on witchery. Witchcraft in Salem is only a rumor until Reverend Hale comes to cleanse the town of evil

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    American History I January 31‚ 2013 Abigail Williams Abigail Williams was a suspicious 11 or 12 year old girl who was the leading cause of the Salem Witch Trial hysteria. There is not much background information on her‚ but as far as history goes‚ Abigail was born 1680 and lived with her Uncle Samuel Parris’ family‚ who was the head Reverend of Salem‚ Massachusetts at the time. “Although it was ordinary practice for young girls to live with relatives to learn about housewifery‚ we know very little

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    Justice In The Crucible

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    A Story of Corrupt Justice: The Perpetuation of the Abominable Salem Witch Trials Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ a place of beginnings in the New World‚ shows that the Puritans’ “self-denial‚ their purposefulness‚ their suspicion of all vain pursuits‚ their hard-handed justice were altogether perfect instruments for the conquest of this space so antagonistic to man” (Miller 6). The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ describes the Salem witch trials during the seventeenth century. Numerous people were hung and jailed

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    of how the hysteria of the witch hunts could be dangerously similar to the communist hunts going on in the United States at the time. Using the history from the Salem Witch Trials‚ he wrote a story that was sure to educate people about the potential disaster that could come from the carelessness of accusing others. “The Crucible” and The Red Scare had many similarities due to the fact that the author of “The Crucible” wrote the play to compare the Salem Witch Trials to the Red Scare. The first

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    Katherine Pajewski Ms. Little English Period 6 10/10/13 The Crucible and McCarthyism Paralleled In the play The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller creates a tragic story of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 which parallel McCarthyism during the 1950s. Miller published this play in 1953‚ after feeling the effects of McCarthyism during the 1950s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Miller paralleled McCarthyism by writing about the events and ways of thinking that prompted the outbreaks‚ the immediate reactions

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    them to demonstrate the pressure on people from society‚ to conform. Miller takes the Salem Witch trials and uses them to reflect on the McCarthyism period. By using religion as a sort of substitute for politics‚ Miller was able to see the similarities between the McCarthy era and the actions of the Puritans in Salem. Each event was just as cruel and merciless as the other‚ and even though the Salem Witch trials had occurred over 200 years before The Crucible was written‚ by using it to mirror the

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    The Crucible Movie

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    The Crucible The 1996 film version of “The Crucible”‚ portrays the infamous Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts during the 1600’s. Author Arthur Miller portrays many events and characthers true to that of what happened in salem in 1692. However‚ many of the historical events are concentrated around the movies non-fictional relationship that Abigail Williams and John Proctor have. The movie is have many inaccurate elements that are not true to what really happened.The fictional

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