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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(Source #2) The famous Salem Witch Trials was a true history based on the Puritans value, customs, and also their beliefs. Salem was a village that was running based on Puritan's theology. Those who followed Satan were considered witches. ... (Source #3) The Salem Witch Trials was caused by a lot of factors. ... From the history of Salem Witch Trials and the story of Young Goodman Brown, the Puritan's customs, values, and beliefs definitely affect the individual. ...

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Arthur Miller's "The Crucible- is set in the late 17th Century in a puritan settlement called Salem in the State of Massachusetts and is based on a true story of the Salem Witch-hunts. Salem is a small claustrophobic in the heart of the new expanding white America. ... At the time America was plunged into a witch hunt of it's own. It was 1950's and the McCarthy trials were tearing through America and innocent American citizens on trial doubted in their allegiance to their own country for being communists. ... This was due to the similarities of the McCarthy trials and the ...

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Such people were punished in such ways as the scarlet letter, or in The Crucible, the Salem Witch Trials. The sad views of these narrow-minded people also led to the penalizations and unfortunate deaths of those 20 some-odd souls in 1869 in Salem. ...

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The Crucible is a play that tells the story of the famous witchcraft trial in Salem, Massachusetts. ... In The Crucible, the townspeople hunt out the witches in the community as an attempt to rid the town of evil. ... The Crucible has a similar Reverend, Parris, political figure, and it also focuses on one main family, the Proctors who go through many problems due to the witch hunt. ... Another reason he presses the executions is because he cannnot bear the thought of witches in his parish. If there are witches, this would prove he is not performing his job as he should. ...

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In a satirical way, he almost mocks the "nonconformist" culture and its faults, as one of his relatives was a judge in the Salem witch trials. ... The reader is never told that she is a witch, but her unusual appearances make her seem like the embodiment of the devil and all of life's temptations and immoralities. The reader can conclude that she is a witch or a servant of "The Black Man" when Hibbins says, "Will thou [Pearl] ride with me, some fine night, to see thy father?" ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 4, 1804 and died May 11, 1864, was the first American writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. ... One of Hawthorne's forefathers was Judge Hathorne, who presided over the Salem witch trials in 1692. Hawthorne carried so much guilt for his ancestor's participation in the infamous trials that he felt compelled to change his last name, adding a "w" to change it from Hathorne to Hawthorne (Cerrito 165). ... Trial was always by a jury of twelve peers.  ...

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Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable remains of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew being heartless to Puritan demands. They insisted that the Puritans conform to re...

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