The Salem Witch trials depicted in The Crucible were gruesome acts of violence and judgment angled towards innocent‚ hard-working people of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Or were they? In fact‚ they were‚ but not in the way that one may think. According to history books and works of literary art such as The Crucible ‚ the events that took place during the Salem Witch Trials were all based upon lies made up by Abigail Williams and other young girls. There is tons of evidence to back this up‚ however
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The Crucible: Elizabeth Proctor “Let them that never lied die now to keep their souls” (1353). This quote‚ spoken by John Proctor‚ in the Crucible represents what the Salem Witch Trials were about. The Crucible‚ written by Aurthur Miller‚ was a playwright based in the 1600’s of the Salem Witch Trials in Province‚ Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials were during the time of McCarthyism; McCarthyism suggested people were guilty without hard proof. Elizabeth Proctor was a character in the Crucible
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The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller is a play accounting for the tragic events of 1692 in Salem Village. Most people were Puritans‚ who believed it was against the law not to attend church. The devastating events which took place in Salem Village are known as “The Salem Witch Trials”. These Witch Trials caused many people to be accused of witchcraft and well over a dozen to be executed. The source of all this social disruption‚ was when many girls and Reverend Parris’s slave Tituba were caught dancing
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The Contagious Mask of Hypocrisy In Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible hypocrisy runs through the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ as if it were contagious. When the witchcraft situation in Salem gets out of control‚ several characters like reverend Paris‚ Mary Warren‚ and Abigail Williams become engaged in hypocritical actions. One main character who shows hypocrisy in Salem is Reverend Paris. When the idea of witchcraft is introduced for being the cause of why the group of girls in town are ill and
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The Salem Witch Trials Many people have innocently went to prison or payed for crimes they have never committed over the course of history. The Salem Witch trials is the most known tragedy in which many lost their lives due to false accusations of participating in witchcraft in a puritan community. These trials would forever put in shame the name of Salem due to the injustice done to the innocent by people who wanted to take the guilt and shame off themselves First and fore more the
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In the Salem Witch Trials Abigail‚ Betty‚ Mary‚ and Mercy were the only evidence needed to get convicted in the adapted play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It became their word against yours and the girls had all the power because they were well trusted within the community. The same goes for this news story about José Antonio Zúñiga‚ or known more commonly as his nickname Toño‚ he was sentenced to jail for up to 20 years for a crime he did not commit due to no one doing a follow up on his story
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The crucible directly means a severe‚ searching test or trial. The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a perfect example of that definition. The book is based upon the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690’s‚ it also has a deeper meaning it also relates to the communist hunts of the 1950’s led by Joseph McCarthy. The Crucible in all of its meanings follow the definition of it being a severe‚ searching test or trial. In the book The Crucible Arthur Miller portrayed the horrors of the Salem Witch Trails
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The Witch Trials and McCarthyism There is little symbolism within The Crucible‚ but‚ in its entirety‚ the play can be seen as symbolic of the paranoia about communism that pervaded America in the 1950s. Several parallels exist between the House Un-American Activities Committee’s rooting out of suspected communists during this time and the seventeenth-century witch-hunt that Miller depicts in The Crucible‚ including the narrow-mindedness‚ excessive zeal‚ and disregard for the individuals that characterize
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The book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller takes place in the 1670’s in Salem‚ Massachusetts. The book is about the event better known as “The Salem Witch Trials” that happened when a girl named Abby had a seizure and the people of Salem believed that she was cursed by a witch. So‚ Abby decided to take an advantage of what the people of Salem thought‚ she then began to chose people she did not like or what other people had against and she would call the people out as a witch. She just had
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The story The Crucible takes place during the times of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. This was a time of much hypocrisy in the people of the town of Salem. Many people believed anything they heard or saw. Although The Crucible is fictitious‚ the story depicts the historical information of the Salem witch trials‚ and blends them with fictitious characters with minds of their own to create a very realistic plot and conflict in this story. This story has a few themes that are shown through
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