The Progression of the Salem Witch Trials The play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was written in 1952. He was born in Harlem, New York in 1915. His family lost almost everything during the Wall Street Crash in 1929. After graduating high school, he worked odd jobs to get enough money to attend the University of Michigan. For a student paper, he finished his first play called No Villain. The Tony-Award Winning The Crucible may have been one of the reasons why Arthur came under the House of Un-American Activities Committee’s scrutiny. Brooks Atkinson wrote "He refused to be an informer. He refused to turn his private conscience over to administration by the state”(Biography.com Editors) in 1957 about Miller’s defense against the HUAC. During
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People go through many questionings, and they are not fully proven guilty until the Court can justify it for sure. There are two categories of questions; questions of fact, and questions of law. The questions of fact are things that happened during the case, such as Tituba teaching the group of girls the ways of witchcraft with the egg and glass of water. Questions of law are usually justified by the judge. These questions apply how the law should be involved with the case. The Salem Witch Trials showed that the way of trials back then were unfair and really leaning on one side of the case. Trials evolved from that and made a better and more fair way of proving guilt or …show more content…
The witch trials in England were coming to an end just as the Salem trials began. The Salem Witch Trials set a change for the way trials would be done in the future. A fair way to let the accused speak of what happened through their eyes, rather than the afflicted not giving the accused a chance to prove their innocence. One of the four girls who were accusing people; Ann Putnam, finally admitted to what she had done wrong, and wrote an apologetic letter in regards to that. The Puritans were used to the same things, and when something new was introduced, people began to believe in even the strangest possibilities. They didn’t accept new things, they wanted things to stay the way they had been ever since their time in
People go through many questionings, and they are not fully proven guilty until the Court can justify it for sure. There are two categories of questions; questions of fact, and questions of law. The questions of fact are things that happened during the case, such as Tituba teaching the group of girls the ways of witchcraft with the egg and glass of water. Questions of law are usually justified by the judge. These questions apply how the law should be involved with the case. The Salem Witch Trials showed that the way of trials back then were unfair and really leaning on one side of the case. Trials evolved from that and made a better and more fair way of proving guilt or …show more content…
The witch trials in England were coming to an end just as the Salem trials began. The Salem Witch Trials set a change for the way trials would be done in the future. A fair way to let the accused speak of what happened through their eyes, rather than the afflicted not giving the accused a chance to prove their innocence. One of the four girls who were accusing people; Ann Putnam, finally admitted to what she had done wrong, and wrote an apologetic letter in regards to that. The Puritans were used to the same things, and when something new was introduced, people began to believe in even the strangest possibilities. They didn’t accept new things, they wanted things to stay the way they had been ever since their time in