With witchcraft on the rise‚ many citizens of Salem in 1692 were fearful‚ greedy and jealous. Nearly every character in this story gives into one of the factors. In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ fear‚ greed‚ and jealousy contribute to the witchcraft hysteria and mass executions in Salem. One of the main contributors to the mass hysteria would be fear. As if the witchcraft hysteria wasn’t enough‚ in 1692 many Salem villagers feared famine due to the upcoming war. The people of Salem contributed
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The history of past views and treatments for abnormal behavior was the most interesting to me in this week’s reading‚ especially witchcraft and exorcism. I remember learning about witchcraft including the Salem witch trials during high school. It has me curious as to what they would have considered abnormal behavior back then and which behaviors would have you sent to an asylum or hospital. I was surprised by how often the treatments and care of people with abnormal behavior changed‚ affected by
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Is Witchcraft Rational? Human nature has always instigated us to try and look for explanations for what happens around us. Psychology looks for the explanations for human behavior‚ meteorology looks for explanations for weather and the police now look for scientific explanations to solve a crime. The means we have today to investigate cause and effect are different from how they were even a decade ago let alone in the ancient civilizations when witchcraft and magic supposedly originated‚ not to
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Witchcraft in Hollywood It is said by many that Hollywood is persuasive. People see something on television or in a motion picture and believe that what is shown is‚ in reality‚ true. Misconceptions will occur‚ and unless people are shown evidence against the delusions‚ it will be taken as fact. In the past‚ many groups have been poorly represented onscreen. Organizations such as the mafia‚ the government‚ the military‚ spies‚ gods‚ monsters‚ and others are just a small example
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compared to men‚ which led to the belief that women were witches. Act of oblivion “Women and Explanations for European Witchcraft Beliefs in the 16th and 17th Century.” (2003) The journal “Women and Explanations for European Witchcraft Beliefs in the 16th and 17th Century‚” debates whether witchcraft was a tradition or part of everyday culture. James Sharpe believed that witchcraft was a part of everyday culture during that period. People targeted others for revenge or said they were a witch because
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The Arise of Witchcraft in The Crucible In Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ the story is set in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the time that the Salem Witch Trials were beginning. The society was paranoid because the concept of witchcraft scared them and‚ even more than scared them‚ enraged them. Due to how paranoid the people were‚ the leaders began implementing new rules/laws that would prevent witchcraft from happening. In the play‚ by the end of Act 1‚ the girls dancing in the woods (and dabbling
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The witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692 were a result of many different elements that were going on within the town. Jealousy was the cornerstone of the mass hysteria that soon became known as the Salem witch trials. In his play‚ The Crucible‚ Miller demonstrates how the fear of people in authority can destroy a community by bringing it to mass hysteria through the characters of Parris‚ Putnam‚ and Proctor. Reverend Parris‚ the minister in Salem‚ fears the people of the town to a point where he
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accused of being a witch‚ and he/she will actually be forgiven if they blame their accusations on another individual‚ or confess themselves as guilty. Hysteria is the main idea of this play‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Miller shows how it can destroy an entire community‚ and developed a theme of how suspicion and panic can lead to extensive hysteria that often can destroy rationality and public/individual persona. Firstly‚ the person with the most influence on hysterical ideas is the character
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Comparative Witchcraft “I’ll get you my pretty and your little dog too”‚ a famous quote from The Wizard of Oz‚ warns Dorothy that she cannot escape from the Wicked Witch of the West’s wrath. A threat that according to the ancient Greek and Roman authors is something to fear and while the witches of their time did not have green skin‚ they were just as horrifying. Apuleius‚ Lucan‚ and Petronius demonstrate the horrors that witches are capable of in their accounts of experiences with Magical women
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History 1301 Fall 2014 Extra Credit SWCT The Salem Witchcraft Trials began in the 1690’s in Salem‚ Massachusetts and then later spread to other parts of New England. These trials resulted in the execution of about 20 people‚ most of them women‚ and innocent people. Hundreds of other individuals including men‚ women‚ and children were accused; dozens were kept in prison without trials‚ and a couple even died in prison. A wave of hysteria spread all over Massachusetts‚ when a group of girls began
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