How can two events that happened hundreds of years apart be strikingly similar? The themes and events of the Salem witch trails and McCarthyism era are very similar but still very different. The two events happened in the US history. The Salem witch trails happened in the year 1692 ‚ while the McCarthyism era was going on in the 1950-60 . The events happened 258 years apart. In both the witch trails and McCarthyism the accusations where based on pointless facts. “They be telling lies about my
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being accused for being a witch. Sadly this is what happened in the Salem Witch Trials‚ which occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials were a dark time in American history‚ because innocent people were hanged. This was a period of time were villagers were accusing each other of being witches. Twenty people were hanged because of villagers accusing them of practicing witch craft. The Salem Witch Trials occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts. This began in the winter of 1692 and then ended
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The crucible is a 1953 play that dramatized and partially fictionalized what happen during the Salem witch trials in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. In the play The Crucible ‚ by Arthur Miller‚ the town of Salem is involved in what some might say the “witch trials.” These trials negatively affected the community‚ the authority‚ the church‚ and the individuals. Many people in the town were being tested for their faith and their lives. The community of Salem was negatively affected by the witch trials. For instance
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girls’ fits having to do with mental breakdowns and fear.11 Descriptive sermons were being given frequently about and against witchcraft around the time of the Salem Witch Trials. It is obvious to say that the girls could have felt terrified about this and the witchcraft that they would have seen throughout the village. In Witchcraft at Salem‚ Chadwick Hansen says‚ “The cause of these hysterical symptoms‚ of course‚ was not witchcraft itself but the victim’s fear of it.”12 This could definitely be
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Everybody has heard about witches‚ but everyone just thinks they are a halloween character. They are wrong‚ do you know where witches even came from? Not a fairy tale book. It comes from long ago in Salem‚ Massachusetts. It was the summer of 1692‚ the people of Salem started getting accused of being witches. So everyone joined in and started accusing others. What was the cause of this nonsense? Some might say religion. However‚ in my opinion jealousy is what started the trials. There is more evidence
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Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch To Live In Salem Massachusetts twenty people were hanged because Puritans believed everything that the Bible said.One topic that the bible discussed was ¨The devil is real and he is clever¨‚ the bile discussed that whenever he sees a person weak he can control them. the Bible stated that when someone is weak they can’t keep there mind straight and see hallucinations and voices “the devil is the voice”‚ they hear and they listen and the devil makes them do witchcraft
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During the spring of 1692 the salem witch trials was caused because many women and men and children had believed that they were possessed by the devil. Many of the accused were put on trial and later hung. If they could not recite the Lord’s prayer then they were considered a witch. Other women who denied they were not possessed by the devil and many others agreed were forgiven of all there sins. Several different women and kids were caught in the woods dancing naked around a pot of an
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The noose swung back and forth. Another execution had taken place in Salem in 1692‚ the victim falsely accused of witchcraft. Why were citizens fearful enough the killed others? The Salem witch trials were caused by poor‚ young girls who acted possessed because they were jealous of the rich. These girls hated being bossed around‚ so they pretended to be controlled by witches‚ who were the rich people they were jealous of. According to document B‚ the young girls didn’t want to be told what to
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While the Salem witch trials occurred in the late 1600’s‚ a similar unfortunate situation occurred in the 1950’s with an event called McCarthyism. The Red Scare and the Salem witch trials shared many common characteristics. The similarities include continuous accusations‚ leading politicians‚ and the reaction to Satan and communism. The Salem witch trials and the Red Scare both involved ongoing accusations that led to numerous innocent people being accused. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚
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based on word of mouth which can be easily stretched and distorted. It would have been easy for those in power to alter the words of the bible to what they wanted people to hear. Also‚ consider the location of The Garden of Eden and the Arch of the Covenant. The fact they have still been undiscovered leads the ultimate question. What elements of the bible were real and what was a figment of someoneś imagination? The extent of numerous people devoting their lives to searching for these locations and
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