... incidents upbringings but there were more reasons. Along with fear there was greed. People in both situations used the time as a tool to get ahead of others in the world. In the Play, The Crucible, we see greed take shape in many different forms. One character, Abigail Williams, accuses a woman of witchcraft because she loves that woman's husband. "I know how you clutch ... 810 million and $2 billion dollars."" (Hal Sterns 1) But through the years things had changed slightly. The Crucible and the Japanese Internment do have their differences. In both situations courts were involved with t...

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... ; however, there most definitely were Communists in the United States in the 1950s. While this undeniable fact remains true, the way in which Senator Joe McCarthy aroused paranoia and suspicion of Communists in the public was most definitely similar to Abigail's actions. Another very clear similarity between Miller's The Crucible and his actual life was the panic and hysteria caused by an unwarranted fear. ... Whether this fear is of Communists or witches, the effect was the same; many innocent individuals were brought to trial because of ... arising suspicions from the general public, ...

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... place in Act 2. Elizabeth and John Proctor are at their house when Ezekiel Cheever enters. Cheever has come on behalf of the court, and he notifies them that he has come to take Elizabeth to jail for the crime of witchcraft. Apparently, Abigail Williams, a cold hearted, troubled teenager has accused Elizabeth of ventriloquism. She had a poppet that she was sewing in church one ... , had at least one thing to worry about. If and when were they going to be accused? Many of the citizens of Salem feared that they wouldn't be accepted. At the end of Act 3, a court scene, John Proctor is tryin...

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... the end of the seventeenth century. It is a portrayal of young women who are caught practicing witchcraft and dancing, in a strict Puritan community. Essentially, they were merely being teenage girls, in a confined society where they needed to break loose. They made up a tale of being bewitched by local housewives, in order to clear them of guilt. This point was proven when Abigail ... tells John, "I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned." The cycle expands with each person accused: the supposed witch must decide whether to plead guilty to a cri...

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... a time when everyone was going hysterical over nothing, thousands of artists were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not ... brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. Arthur Miller had rewritten the Witch-hunt that had occurred there in 1692 into a fictional literary piece. The play The Crucible used the histori...

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... of improper means of investigation and the charges were dropped. One will see in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, that the United States basically despised Russia during the 1950's because Russia was a communist state. The United States named Russia The Devil (according to the play), because of their communistic ways and dictatorship over the people. The necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon ... listen, to her advantage. This again proves that Abigail had control of the town and the unexplained turned neighbor against neighbor. The social breakdown in Salem was th...

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