a trying affair on the small town of Salem. During this event a man came to the town of Salem‚ this man was Reverend Hale. Hale was crucial in the interpretation of these “satanic” works. He was the one of the first people to openly believe the witchcraft and one of the few to end up openly opposing it as well. Where the whole town fell to mass hysteria‚ believing that the devil‚ Hale was one of the few with the resolve to oppose this madness. Reverend Hale is a just and composed man who has pure
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The Meaning of Truth and Judgment In society‚ truth has no meaning because people in numbers‚ rule and come together‚ only believing what they want to believe. Great strength in numbers is a key factor in The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller. What the townspeople of Salem said‚ always went. There is no arguing and no deciding. If someone was accused or judged as being a witch‚ they were most like condemned for being one. The definition of judgment is the formation of an opinion (Encarta Encyclopedia
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of two different things. Ann Putnam had accused villagers of being involved with witchcraft‚ and Joseph McCarthy had accused innocent government officials of being involved with the communists in Russia. Most
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Abigail will make sure that all of the girls go down with her. As the play continues into Act II John Proctor blames Abigail Williams for the girls pretense of witchery. Back in Act I‚ Abigail told Proctor that what they were doing had not to do with witchcraft‚ but at the time John
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play considering I helped the judges collect spectral evidence during the trials‚ but Miller did not think so‚ therefore I was not portrayed in the play. I published a book in 1964 called Remarkable Provinces‚ stating my first encounter with witchcraft. The Goodwin family had been afflicted by Satan. I took their eldest ‚ 13-year-old Martha‚ I brought her into my home and studied her actions as the devil would afflict her. I began to engage myself more into the trials‚ more than before. I was
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The Relevance of The Crucible & The Scarlet Letter Today The Crucible and the Scarlet Letter are two old stories set in a middle age America that had many problems with its evolution including proclaimed witches. These stories represent the natural differences between society as a whole and the individual they either help or abandon. The Crucible focused on how an individual could never win against a society unless they get help from another society. The Scarlet Letter represents the difficulties
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the witchcraft Abigail started. Abigail’s lies made Proctor struggle in getting society to believe the truth. As John said‚ “You are pulling Heaven down and raising a whore!”(III.ii) Proctor is saying that society believing everything Abigail is saying is only making a more powerful woman and liar which makes all the good in the world disappear more and more with every lie Abigail tells and society believes.. Everytime Proctor tried to tell the townspeople and judges the truth about witchcraft‚ Abigail
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But it is clear that the witch hunt made most of their targets women. Even though some men practiced witchcraft too‚ women still remained the image of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials because of their image of being evil. Women got blamed more than men because they provided nourishment from their body where men could not. Women also became targets because of their lower social
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Ikran Abdisalam 1/18/2012 Unjustified Killings In the United States‚ up until the lethal injection was introduced in 1980‚ execution by hanging was the most popular legal and some times unlawful form of putting criminals to death. In some cases‚ innocent people were irrationally hung or lynched with no evidence of criminality. This occurred in a more recent historical event‚ The Duluth lynching’s. The 1920 Duluth lynching occurred on June 15‚ 1920 when three black circus workers were attacked
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in Loudun p. 63-70 Aldous Huxley‚ The Devils of Loudun p. 71-73 • Film : The Devils (excerpts) * King Louis XIV and the Affair of the Poisons • Texts: “The Magician Lesage” p. 74-79 “The Decriminalization of French Witchcraft” p. 80-81 7. March 5 Mid-Term (75 mn) * The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters 1 • Film: Brotherhood of the Wolves (excerpts) 8. March 12 * The Sleep of Reason
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