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    Research Paper – Mob Mentality Mob mentality can occur in any society. It can take place at any time‚ any day or any night. Mob mentality does not have a direct target. It will take over anyone‚ leaving them with no control over themselves. Mob mentality proves that under critical situations people will be selfish and follow others’ leads; however‚ the leads people usually follow are not the ones best for them. Due to large amounts of stress everyone carries‚ people do not think as clearly as

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    This play is based on the Salem Witch Trails that took place in 1692. The Trials began because a group of girls in the village claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. Arthur Miller’s play has similarities with the historical background of the actual Witch Trails‚ but it can also affect our lives by teaching us various lessons. Hysteria is one of the universal themes in this play‚ along with Reputation. Out of the three themes that will be interpreted in

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    the effects of guilt and sin are combined with a continued emphasis on symbolism and allegory. The story is an allegorical journey of a newlywed man who is walking toward spiritual crises‚ hand in hand with the devil himself. Set in Salem about the time of the Salem witchcraft trials‚ it provides the backdrop to a weird journey into the dark forest and the darkness of human heart as well. All the characters‚ objects and settings in the story have allegorical significance since they represent abstract

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    For decades‚ we have talked about the Salem Witch Trials and their unfortunate events in hanging woman for being witches. Most of the people that were accused of witchcraft were women. The amounts of men to women were diverse in different parts of Europe. They were usually older women over the age of fifty and were in lower classes. Woman during this time play a huge role in the trial‚ because more women are accused of being witches and selling their souls to the devil than men would. So why are

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    the time of the Salem Witch Trials and written by Arthur Miller. The film and play‚ though inaccurate in some specific details‚ has some incredible accuracy for a story that was meant to symbolize McCarthyism. It accurately displays the tension that resulted from land arguments as well as their possible effects on the SalemWitch Trials. There are some inconsistencies relating to individual character‚ but the major historical inaccuracy comes in the form of the cause of the Salem Witch Trials along with

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    drama and tension in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? The Crucible is a play‚ which explores the witch- hunting hysteria that happened in Salem 1692. Miller uses this “organized mass-hysteria”[1] to comment on his own similar experience during the 1950s. Through “The Crucible”‚ Miller is able to draw an analogy between the hysteria of the Salem witch-trails and its modern parallel of the anti communist ‘witch-hunts’ which occurred due to the HUAC-House of un-American Committee‚ which were lead by Senator

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    In early America there were several colonies but the ones that stood out the most were the New England Colonies and the Virginia colony. There were many differences‚ for example‚ New England colonies were full of families while the Virginia colony was mostly dominated by males. They mostly had differences and had few things in common. The foundations of the colonies were different. The New England colonies were founded because the founders wanted freedom of religion. The founders of these colonies

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    believing that witches existed and it was because they were all just trying to get themselves out of trouble. Arthur Miller shows the audience that people have not moved on that much from when people were believing in the Salem witch trials. All through this play‚ Miller used the trails in The Crucible and the McCarthy Era because he realized that the events were the same. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to help everyone today‚ who wasn’t alive back then‚ notice that they were not going crazy they were

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    The Salem Witch Trials will forever be a historical phenomenon that countless writers are drawn to; therefore‚ why did Arthur Miller desire to dramatize such events? Arthur Miller’s fascination with the Salem Witch Trials‚ in addition to the communist conflict of the 1960s‚ contributed to the creation of The Crucible. Miller alters each character to make their personalities more potent than the factual documentation suggests. The Crucible is a play that directly references Miller’s experience of

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    to the Salem Witch Trials during the 1950’s. Communism‚ McCarthyism‚ Puritanism‚ and the Salem Witch trials are all relevant in some form or another to Miller’s play “The Crucible”. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller is based on real events that happened in Salem‚ Massachusetts where the antagonist Abigal Williams accuses people in her village being involved with witch craft. Anyone who is accused of these crimes is to be sentenced to be hung. The people who lived in Salem came to

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