understand the mentality and actions of the girls portrayed in the Salem Witch Trials‚ we must first make connections between The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the play based on the trials‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ and the HUAC hearing in the mid 1950’s. Historians have had trouble figuring out what caused the mass hysteria of witch hunts to happen‚ but most agree on the fact that the girls felt powerful being able to call anyone a witch and get away with it. Similar events transpired during the
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In The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials that happened during the 1600’s. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1952 during the Red Scare‚ “The Red Scare describes the time in American History following World War II when tension between Americans and other Communist countries‚ specifically the Soviet Union‚ were threateningly high” (Allison). During this time period many Americans spoke out about their situation‚ including Arthur Miller. He wrote The Crucible
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Background Information » The McCarthy hearings were trials in which Senator Joe McCarthy accused government employees of being Communists. He exaggerated and exploited the evidence and ruined many reputations. Blacklists were created and many employers refused to hire the suspected or accused. (If they did then they would be accused.) Due to the exaggerated evidence and the seriousness of the charges‚ the hearings struck fear in many Americans. Although at first popular‚ the public began to wonder
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are to be hanged for witch craft with no question. They were so clueless about having a problem in their town that it went way too far and they didn’t really think things through all the way. People would just run around telling the authorities that so and so is a witch. They would be taken away and hanged for no reason. There was no proof about them being witches or nobody went into further investigation. Let’s take a minute and really think about how the catastrophe in Salem really started. A group
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entire village so he can become the 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
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historical event of Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692‚ Miller modified and set off each
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Arthur Miller’s Use of His Artistic License Many will always debate on whether or not Arthur Miller had a responsibility to portray the Salem With Trails accurately. It is however seen in his play‚ The Crucible‚ he was responsible enough to recreate the events in a way that portrayed what happened in the Salem Witch Trails. Miller in the beginning of the play states that not a lot is known about the characters and that he took it upon himself to make any creations necessary (Miller 2). It was important
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factor in history‚ specifically in the Salem witch trials. When The Crucible was written‚ rumors put a spin on the author’s ‚ Arthur Miller‚ own life. Gossip and scandals still play into our daily lives‚ now more than ever‚ with the media craze. Ever wonder what fueled the gruesome and unnecessary witch trials in Salem? Well‚ in The Crucible it all began with girls dancing in the forest and the irrational opinions of what the meant back then. To the people of Salem‚ at that time‚ it meant they worked
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In Act four‚ of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible from 1953‚ he demonstrates that one must bend to the will of the court of Salem or follow their own moral guidelines. Miller uses dramatic dialogue‚ ethos and allegorical allusions‚ showing that the people in Salem have to make person choices to follow or abandon their morals. This act’s purpose is to show the mental strain on the characters in the play in order to show the difficulty of the decisions the characters must make. The implied ethical
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wrote about the Salem witch trials‚ his purpose was to describe the McCarthy trials which teaches many ideas about human life both generally and regarding politics. The two time periods were more than two and a half centuries apart‚ yet they had many factors that overlapped. Miller explains the McCarthy trials through The Crucible by teaching people’s fears‚ faults‚ and politics‚ making the text both a metaphor to the trials and an allegory. Both The Crucible and the McCarthy trials have many parallels
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