real and valid evidence. Two reasons why I say this‚ for one‚ I don ’t fully understand because in my mind it ’s saying‚ that if you look suspicious or do suspicious things someone is allowed to follow you and if they believe you are practicing witchcraft they have the right to accuse you and send you to jail and give you a trial. Now if I’m right I think that is very and I mean very stupid because if your neighbor is the one accusing you then the your land will become a free for all and that neighbor
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Miller‚ many people are accused and convicted of witchcraft. It starts the rumor of witchcraft in the village‚ but it evolves into a great witch hunt with many people getting arrested. In the play people often accuse their neighbors or enemies. The accused are often unable to defend themselves of the accusation‚ so they either get pregnant‚ confess‚ or accuse others in order to live. These are just some of the ways many people were accused of witchcraft‚ but others were motivated by other reasons. In
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went on from 1692 to 1693. The trials resulted in the death of twenty people. Many sources believe that there could have been more than one cause of the Salem Witch Trials. The main three causes of the Salem Witch Trials are superstition‚ teenage hysteria‚ and Puritan politics. The first cause of the Salem Witch Trials was fear of superstition among the Puritan community. The Puritans were pious and believed in the Devil‚ and believed that God would punish them horridly if they went against their
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What if the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was caused by a simple lie? What would you be thinking? There’s no way? That’s impossible? There have been many ideas of what caused the Salem Witch Trials researched by historians‚ but most of them are not true‚ most of them can’t be backed. But first we must review some key vocabulary; Hysteria. Hysteria is an outbreak of emotion or fear. The three most logical causes of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 are biased amongst the community‚ attention
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character within the community. John Proctor is a strong-willed‚ level-headed local farmer who valued his public reputation over his better judgment to challenge the accusations driven by hysteria and put an end to the trials. In the scene at Parris’s house‚ Proctor misses an opportunity to stop the consideration of witchcraft as the source of Betty’s illness‚ due to his fear of admitting his amoral relationship with Abigail. His secret relationship with Abigail threatens to diminish his moral standing and
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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 this essay‚ the one that stands out the most is hysteria. In opinion‚ hysteria occurs when someone believes that their friend does an action
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of the beginning of the witchcraft hysteria in Salem there were many reasons for the people of the village to be nervous. They had a strong belief that the devil was the cause for disease‚ bad fortune and catastrophes. The people accused were also those who did not have a godly reputation‚ were foreigners or were part of an old feud with the most prominent men. The origin of the Salem Witch Trials stems from a group of girls who accused several local women of witchcraft. In January of 1692‚ two
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has caused them to deal evil deeds themselves. John Hale’s remarks of the witchcraft hysteria about how men’s view on the witch trials has cause them to immorally deal with them‚ as depicted in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The Crucible is a play about a dispute over the witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts of 1692 as one girl tries to destroy her love’s wife as she accuses everyone who tries to get in her way for witchcraft. Furthermore‚ Hale’s analysis about men’s perception of evil which causes
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Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ seven young girls found power in the town of Salem and exploited their new control by accusing the townspeople of witchcraft. Fear inspired by witchcraft drove the trials to extremes. The impact of creating and exploiting public hysteria to obtain power ultimately creates fear and greater damage. In the past‚ exploitation of public hysteria left people paralyzed with fear. The fear felt during the Red Scare and Salem witch trials is put into words by Arthur Miller. In Source
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no medical explanation‚ so the people of Salem deemed it witchcraft. The people of Salem then had to decide which people were witches. They accused both men and women of witchery‚ and when they were found guilty‚ they were hanged‚ but why were these people found guilty? The people of 17th century Salem were convicted of witchcraft due to pressure and bias from their community‚ strict codes involving morality and religion‚ and mass hysteria. People were convicted due to the pressure of their community
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