Nineteen innocent men and women were hung, and one was crushed to death at the end of the Salem Witch Trials in 1962. ... The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play that uses both truth and fiction to illustrate the infamous Salem Witch Trials. ... Reasons such as religion, abuse of power, and jealousy all contributed to the cause and longevity of the witch trials. ... Making sure they were following all of the guidelines and customs of Puritanism, any faults brought further reasons for the witch trials to thrive in Salem. ... All of these reasons made a group of dancing girls in the woods,...

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Lots of people think that the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s are a repeat of history from the Salem witch-hunts of 1692. ... The Salem witch trials were not taken about in a fair way. ... The McCarthy hearings, though unfair, were more just than the Salem witch trials. ... The Salem witch trials and the McCarthy hearings are very similar and from very different times in history. ... Let us hope that history does not repeat itself again according to Salem witch-hunts and McCarthy hearings. ...

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This is what happened to many people in the Salem Witch Trials and in McCarthyism. ... In the Salem Witch Trials and in McCarthyism innocent people were accused of wrongdoing. In the Salem Witch Trials over a hundred people were accused of being witches. ... In the Salem Witch Trials Rebecca Nurse is accused of murdering seven of Ann Putnam's children. ... On the other hand, not everything that happened during the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism was negative. ...

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The Salem witchcraft accusations of 1692, was a period of hysteria, where ordinary citizens from an ordinary village became hell-bent on ridding their community from the influence of witches. ... It is important to note that there was a strong divide within the community of Salem Village due to the proximity of Salem Town. ... Bridget Bishop) were more prosperous and succeeded because of the traffic drawn by the bigger Salem Town. ... The people of Salem Village used witch-hunts to rid the community of people they resented. ... While prosecuting witchcraft in colonial times was done to elimi...

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McCarthy Trials Similar to Salem Witch Trials There are many similarities between the McCarthy Trials and the Salem Witch Trials. The McCarthy Trials consisted of victims being accused for communist acts and many were arrested for suspicion of communism. ... One of the most famous trials was about Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, and Alger Hiss. The trials relied on informers Whittaker Chambers, Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, and David Greengrass. ... The McCarthy Trials and the Salem Witch Trials are parallel in that they both have the same reasons for the arrest and execution of the accuse...

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The Actual Salem Witch Trials vs. The Crucible The Salem Witch trials of 1692, was a time in American history that portrayed how unstable society could be. ... The events described in The Crucible and the actual Salem Witch Trial events are closely related in that both portray the reasons for the start and end of the hysteria. The historical Salem Witch Trials all began because of childhood fantasies and jealousies. ... After doing research on the actual Salem Witch trial events, and after reading The Crucible by Arthur Miller, I have found that the play has more things in common with ...

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The Salem Witch Trials were a major event for colonial American times and for it's self. ... The trails were held in the village of Salem about eight miles outside of Salem town in the state of Massachusetts. ... Tituba was beaten until she confessed to being a witch. ... Ann Putnam was the only girl to come back and make public apology to the town's people after the trials. ... The Salem witch trials were so big and cause such a riot that it stopped all witch trials and hunts all together in the New England colonies. ...

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The Salem Witch Trials were a major event for colonial American times and for it's self. ... The trails were held in the village of Salem about eight miles outside of Salem town in the state of Massachusetts. ... Tituba was beaten until she confessed to being a witch. ... Ann Putnam was the only girl to come back and make public apology to the town's people after the trials. ... The Salem witch trials were so big and cause such a riot that it stopped all witch trials and hunts all together in the New England colonies. ...

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Although Arthur Miller's theatrical drama, "The Crucible," is a fascinating look at the chaos and tumultuousness of the Salem witch trials, it's a broad fictionalization of historical accuracy. ... Parris is often recognized as one of the most notorious characters involved in the Salem Witch Trials, and can be used as an excellent example of what happens when great religious power is left in the hands of a greedy and dishonest person. ... Parris' daughter and niece were the first two afflicted individuals in Salem, and his niece became one of the largest accusers in the trials....

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Some might say devils or witches. However, for the people of Salem, their evil was nowhere near devils or witches. What was perceived as witches conjuring spirits and devils visiting innocent citizens was really a huge practical joke. ... He continually lets the trials happen because of his own self-interests. ... Being a man of faith, Reverend Paris should know where evil begins, but the evil ways about him let the trials continue and lets the evil spread. ...

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There are parallels between McCarthyism and the Salem witch trials in The Crucible; by examining the circumstances and details of both events they become evident. ... The trial soon turned public opinion against McCarthy. ... There where many opponents who were afraid to speak against blacklisting and the witch trials. ... on June 17, 2002 that "It would probably have never occurred to me to write a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692 had I not seen some astonishing correspondences with that calamity in the America of the late 40s and early 50s." ... Ambition, power, fear, and ignorance ...

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The Red Scare unquestionably parallels the events that happened during the witch trials in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. The Salem witch trials and the Red Scare were both the product of fear, hysteria, suspicion and false accusations. ... The people of Salem panicked and wanted to rid their town of witches. ... In the 1950's, the Red Scare event mirrored the Salem Trial's. ... As in the Salem witch trial's, if anyone was even remotely mentioned in partaking in evil things then they were assumed guilty without any proof. ...

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The Crucible Essay The story The Crucible takes place during the times of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. This was a time of much hypocrisy in the people of the town of Salem. ... Although The Crucible is fictitious, the story depicts the historical information of the Salem witch trials, and blends them with fictitious characters with minds of their own to create a very realistic plot and conflict in this story. ... The Puritans use this during the witch trials in which they hanged many people that were innocent of witchcraft. ... The other side of my thesis would have explained that ...

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Each of these people in some way caused harm to blameless people, and I will explain what these people knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches in Salem village 1862. My opinion is that the one person that is most responsible for the Salem witch-hunt was Abagail Williams there are many reasons for this, Abagail had a motive witch was to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor so that once again she could have a relationship with John Proctor" You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor" pg.26. ... There was 19 people to die in Salem during the witch ...

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Miller illustrates how the Salem witch trials compare to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist hunt. ... During the infamous Army-McCarthy trials, the chief attorney for the Army, Joseph N. ... Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Salem witch accusers never would have rose to fame without public support. ... (Theoharis) This resembles how the Salem witch trials run in The Crucible. ... Arthur Miller did not have the need to alter history's story of the witch trials in order for him to make the point that McCarthy's hunt for Communists was truly a twentieth century witch hunt. ...

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Topic: How are the Salem Witch trials driven by personal vengeance? ... As seen in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Salem Massachusetts in the seventeenth century was no different, many people wanted what their neighbors had, and because of these wants, the Salem witch trials became a weapon for people wanting to get personal satisfaction. The Salem Witch Trials were greatly influenced by jealously. ... It was no surprise that when the witch trials started, Goody Nurse was accused of the murder of the Putnam babies by Goody Putnam's daughter, Ruth. ... The town of Salem Massachusetts ...

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This essay will explain what these people, knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches in Salem Village in 1692. Abigail was most responsible for the Salem Witch hysteria. ... That is why she also had the blame for the Salem Witch Trials. ... In conclusion, there are three people who are most to blame for the hanging of innocent people during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. ... Each of these knowingly or unknowingly caused the witch hysteria to grow and contributed to the hanging deaths of men and women during the Salem Witch Tri...

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The power of false accusations, the judicial system, and consequences of abusive authority had a severe impact on theses people's lives, especially during the time of the Salem witch trials. False accusations, often for personal benefit, were the major basis of the Salem witch trials. The young girls accused of being witches began accusing others in the village in order to save themselves from punishment. This only escalated into more dramatic events as the witch hunt progressed. ... The power of false accusations, the judicial system, and the abuse of power all contributed the Salem wi...

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McCarthyism in The Crucible In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There is more to the play than the witch trials, though. ... When writting The Crucible, Arthur Miller chose to speak through John Proctor on of the Salem witch trials victims. ... Not long after even one of the most respectable women in Salem, Rebecca Nurse, was accused of being a witch. ... It is not difficult to see why a catastrophe such as the Salem witch trials occured. ...

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These feelings were also felt during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. Through his subtle connections, Arthur Miller's play The Crucible efficiently shows the tyranny of consensus during the Salem Witch Trials, and during the period of McCarthyism. ... Miller wrote about the injustices against the disensus during the Salem Witch Trials. ... Therefore people like Proctor confess to being a witch and are able to live instead of dying for something they did not do. ...

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Crucible Essay " There is no shortage of contemporary Salem's ready to cry witchcraft." The parallels between the McCarthy trials in the 1950's and the Salem witch trials seem to be endless. ... Both the McCarthy trials and the Salem witch trials are black marks in the history of the United States. ... Unlike the McCarthy trials, Salem's villagers had gotten together petitions that declared that someone who was accused was innocent. ... The ancestors of the Salem trials and the remaining victims from the McCarthy trials have been reincompinsated. ...

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In their studies of the Salem Witch Trials, along with other events in American history, historians have searched, time and time again, for answers to this probing question: What secret motivations or reasons lie behind the accusations of the innocent? In the Salem Witch Trials, the accusations were clearly caused by the girls" own fears, and the fears of the community also led to the use of scapegoats for the evils of Salem. ... (Miller, "Why I Wrote" 160) Also, when observing the discrimination that has occurred as a result of the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, a distinct par...

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The tactic of oppression to create stability is a tactic that has been used throughout history; from the Puritan Salem to the modern United States of America. The Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts immediately set up a government and society where discipline, respect, community, and God were the way of society. ... Every law and restriction of Salem was the offspring of the Bible because the Puritans believed that God should rule the community and if everyone followed God's rules the community would be stable. The people of Salem could not dance or even dawdle with anything less than hol...

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The trials in the Crucible take place against the back drop of a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their community is God's work. However, there are plenty of feuds and rivalries in the small town that have nothing to with religion, and many Salem residents take advantage of the trials to express long held grudges and revenge on their enemies. ... During the trials Proctor's slave turns on him fearing for her life. ... (44) This bizarre pursuit of "justice" typifies the way that many of the...

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To ask for assistance in the witch-hunt, Reverend Paris calls Reverend Hale to Salem. ... As the trial begins, Hale begins to change his mind about witches being present in Salem. In the climactic trial scene, Hale finally crosses over completely to those opposing the witch-hunt: "I believe [Proctor]! ... Although Hale recognizes the evil of the witch trials, his response is not defiance but surrender. ... He goes from believing that there are witches in Salem, to believing the complete opposite. ...

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