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    Learning From the Past The Salem Witch Trials were an extremely controversial period of time in our history. This was a time of suspicion and accusation of many innocent women and men that led to hysteria and complete turmoil in Salem Village. The Crucible portrays the Salem Witch Trials in a dramatic sense‚ but there are many similarities between the movie and the actual events. We can use these unusual events to compare to our own lives and learn from the mistakes of our past. I’ve found that

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    Comparison Between the Salem witch trials and the McCarthyism period In today’s world‚ there are many ridiculous happenings that people blow out of proportion. Everything as frivolous as celebrities from anything as serious as 9/11 many go overboard in any given situations. Like in the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller which is a comparison the ridiculous social paranoia of the McCarthy period in the 50’s and the salem witch trials. The play written by Arthur Miller shows how many has

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    is quickly changed as many of the town’s high-standing citizens are accused of witchcraft‚ tried‚ and even hanged. In The Crucible‚ fear and faith relate very closely with the decisions that are made throughout the course of the trials and hangings of the Salem Witch Trials. To have faith in something‚ you must have complete confidence or trust in such an object or person. In this society‚ faith wasn’t just a simple everyday word. It was their lifestyle; it was everything that the Puritans stood for

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    witchcraft‚ and trial. This book was written during the McCarthy Era‚ which‚ as defined by http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mccarthyism?s=t‚ was the government‚ amongst others‚ making unsupported claims of people being communist. The Crucible was based on the witch trials of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries‚ in which central european countries would trial‚ torture‚ and kill tens of thousands of men and women across the continent. The Crucible was based on the central european witch hunts‚ but

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    They soon started calling them out as witches‚ and so the Salem witch trials began. But to know about the Salem Witch trials first you have to know who started them. Once you know who started them then you need to know what happened. How could you tell someone was a witch? How were these people prosecuted? Who were these people? Has it affect our everyday life? Many people don’t have a lot of information on the Salem Witch trials‚ but it’s certainly an interesting topic. The Puritans came to America

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    The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ is a play about vengeance and greed. The Salem Witch Trials brought out the opportunities to inflict punishment on one’s neighbour‚ claim other’s land‚ and settle old scores. The Witch Trials brought out everyone’s inner greed‚ jealously and the revenge they yearn to seek. Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are in constant conflict over John Proctor throughout the play. There is evidence of this conflict when Betty Parris says‚ "You did‚ you did! You drank

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    ridiculous reasons. Miller uses The Crucible to show how many of the accusations in the Salem Witch Trials‚ a similar event‚ often had underlying‚ selfish‚ and personal reasons behind them. In the play Abigail Williams‚ and Thomas Putnam’s take advantage of the pervasive fear in the village‚ allowing them to fulfill their selfish and exploitative motives which are what truly fuel the Salem Witch Trials. To begin with‚ Abigail Williams starts the accusations of witchcraft in order to fulfill her ulterior

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    events that took place in Salem during the Salem Witch Trials. He describes several of the deadly conflicts that occur between the townspeople‚ but not all the conflicts were external ones. One such conflict occurred within the expert in all things supernatural‚ Reverend Hale. Hale’s internal conflict happened because he realized fear causes people to make rash decisions‚ so he began to doubt all the work he had been doing in Salem and the Witch Trials as a whole. Hale’s inner conflict begins when John

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    Allusions In The Crucible

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    credibility within the town when he does not want Danforth to hang his signed testimony up in public. He does this because he does not want his friends to know that he has abandoned his own morals. John Proctor is not a witch‚ never has been a witch‚ and does not plan on being a witch‚ so signing his mane to his testimony is him abandoning his moral beliefs because his confession is a lie. He does not want others to know that he signed the testimony just to save his life. He knows he has sinned‚ but

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    Escaping Salem Review

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    believed were witches and why they considered them witches. Though the arguments were often weak‚ the arguments gained traction and led to the trials of a couple of women accused of being witches. Escaping Salem takes you in to the courtroom as you see some of the problems of the prosecution and the difficulty of ’proving’ witchcraft. I had always believed that trials were thrown together to just convict but you can see that there was definitely more effort needed to convict someone. The biggest problem

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