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The Crucible a historical fiction writing is about the unjust deaths of 19 individuals who refused to say they conjured with witchcraft. The question arises who is to blame for this event in history. Arthur Miller the author to this play is connecting the salem witch trials to the Red Scare. Which was to find out ones who believes in communism and was trying to overthrow the american way of life. The public is the reason for the Red Scare started, but who is the reason for the salem witch trials…

Trey Hawkins October 17, 2017 Hsia, R. Po-Chia. Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, In Trent 1475, R. Po-Chia Hsia writes about the persecution of three Jewish families. The families of Samuel, Tobias, and Engel were accused, arrested, tortured, and some executed by the local Church of Trent for the murder of a small, Christian boy named Simon Unferdorben, son of Andreas, for the use in a Jewish religious ritual. The corpse of…

We all wear “masks” in front of society, however, we let them see the burdens and judgements we want them to see. Hester Prynne is a of the “victim” I read about in “The Scarlet Letter”. ‘The Scarlet Letter” is a romance from the time period of the 1850s, before the salem witch trial occurred. The book was written by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote the book in 1996 and the book is considered to be his “master piece” or “masterwork”. She had to wear the letter A for “adultery”.…

Edward Evans-Pritchard and Zande Society In the book Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, E. E. Pritchard writes about the Azande and their involvement with witchcraft, oracles, and magic. Pritchard studies the Azande closely and finds out there way of living and their values. Pritchard writes how Azande view witchcraft as something organic and hereditary. Pritchard describes how Azande believe that witchcraft causes unfortunate events, and also brings misfortune to some Zande.…

Radium girls was a play about a girl named Grace who works at a radium factory. She paints dials with radium paint. She and the two other girls she works with as seen in the play, were given instructions to put the paint brush in their mouth which later becomes the cause of radium poisoning. This caused the jaw of their mouth to slowly rot away and eventually kills them. Grace and Catherine decide to sue their employers for damages and poisoning. The employers were doing their best to hide the…

In the Crucible, there are a lot of deaths, accusations of witchcraft, arguing & lies, but there is one person responsible for the problems happening in Salem. Abigail Williams is responsible for everything that is happening in Salem due to the cause of not admitting to doing witchcraft, threatening the young girls from Salem, accusing innocent people, & lying in court. In Act 1: scene one, The Crucible begins with Samuel Parris' daughter, Betty, who lays unconscious in her bed. Parris the…

Do movies based on books portray the same details? The Devil's Arithmetic was published in November 1988, and the movie was released almost 11 years later, in March 1999. Both are about a girl named Hannah who gets transported back in time to the year 1942. The book and movie versions of The Devil's Arithmetic are based on the same events, however, there are countless differences between the two. In the beginning of both the book and the movie, the protagonist is Hannah Stern. She lives in New…

that describes a true story in a fictional manner. The Crucible is a film that portrays the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials were accusations of witchcraft that led to multiple hangings and took place between 1692 and 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts. The Crucible is a drama released in 1996 and stars Daniel Day-Lewis and John Proctor, Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams, and Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor. This film is based off of a play written by Arthur Miller and although some lines are…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Elizabeth Proctor is known to be a moral Christian woman who is convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Throughout history, Puritan women’s roles have been to take care of the household, depending on the time period these roles have evolved. In the play, Elizabeth is characterized to be a morally upright person. However, during the trials, she commits a sin by lying in court and saying her husband, John Proctor, never had an affair with Abigail…

Three Sovereigns for Sarah What I find interesting about this movie is the mere fact it did not touch on the European witch trials, which preceded the Salem witch trials in an attempt tried to minimize the atrocities committed during the witch hunts. In the movie, Three Sovereigns for Sarah, the most contributing factors of the Salem Witch Trials were King James, lack of education, and lack or respect for women. To put it briefly, the British senate passed a law that made…