mainly because most of the people of that time got paranoid very easily and hysteria set in very easily to. I’ll give some examples for one‚ once the hysteria set in mob violence and a lot of killing would take place. What did not help either was the fact that when there were problems with the overall town it was blamed on the governor. So what the governor would do is go along with what people said when they called witchcraft‚ because all the blame would be placed on that person and off of the governor
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power-hungry‚ and intelligent attributes that were demonstrated in The Crucible. In the midst of McCarthyism‚ Abigail would continue to be as ruthless and cunning as she was when she confronted the Witch Trials. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft so she can marry John Proctor. She was never afraid to lie to save herself and burden others with accusations. Abigail claims Mary Warren is a bird threatening her safety so that she can fool the others in believing that she is not a witch.Those
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Mary warren then becomes part of the court that condemns witches. At first she seems to enjoy the power it gives her. Mary was a very easily swayed character or for lack or better words‚ spineless. You can assume that she began her role in the witchcraft accusations because she was bored and tired of having no power as a woman and a servant. She begins to feel bad for her part in the whole affair when John Proctor makes her admit that she was lying‚ however‚ her character was not strong enough to
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witch trials began when the 9-year-old daughter of reverend Samuel Parris and his niece were diagnosed as being under Satan’s influence. The Salem witch trials were an inhumane and unfair series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people‚ also four other accused and an infant child died in prison. People believed witches were associated with the devil and
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Examine who is to blame in The Crucible? Thesis The social influences‚ spiritual authority‚ and bitter vengeance that Judge Danforth‚ Abigail Williams‚ and the average citizen of Salem strongly portrayed exemplifies the failure of a non-secular society and a community built on God that was destined to fail. Judge Danforth Danforth refuses to postpone the hearings until they investigate further. Abigail may have got the ball rolling or so to speak‚ but Danforth could have stopped the hangings and
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1692 and claimed the lives of many innocent people. It led to the hangings of almost twenty‚ leaving more than one hundred in prison. A group of young girls in Salem Village accused several local women of witchcraft while being claimed of being possessed by the devil. This is causing a wave of hysteria to spread throughout colonial Massachusetts. Starting in January of 1692‚ Betty Parris and Abigail Williams‚ Samuel Parris’ (minister of Salem Village) daughter and niece are experiencing very extreme
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ Miller is trying to get across to the audience is that people tend to do crazy things when we are afraid of something. A prime example of the evil person that was responsible for the witch hysteria is Abigail Williams. A seventeen year old girl who was drinking blood and caught dancing in the the woods with her friends just so Elizabeth Proctor could be killed. Elizabeth Proctor is the wife of John Proctor‚ who Abigail is in love with. Abigail
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Crucible can be defined as a test or trial. Many folks in Salem are filled with hysteria when a group of young girls falsely accuse them of witchcraft. John Proctor is one of the folks falsely accused and he must decide his fate through his strong beliefs. John Proctor is justified with his decision of not falsely confessing to the court because by saving his name and reputation it did more good than bad. Before the Salem witch trials start‚ John Proctor is already suffering from an internal
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at the same time. The Salem witch trials and European witch hunts had a lot of things in common‚ yet they had their differences as well. People accused other people of being witches all the time‚ then when people started believing that is when the hysteria kicked in. The thought of witches being in their presence terrified them. They didn’t know what they were capable of‚ so they did everything they could do to stop the “black magic.” The Salem witch trials began in June of 1692 when three girls
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Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ a series on witch trials occur that creates mass hysteria in the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. Abigail Williams‚ one of the main characters‚ fabricates the lies that begin the witch hunt in her attempt to divert everyone’s attention towards her including the attention of John Proctor. In the play‚ Proctor has an affair with young Abigail while his wife goes through postpartum depression causing Abigail to fall in love with him but John returns to his wife
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