People of the Salem witch trials

Russia taking over the United States anymore, The Crucible rose on the charts and became a movie in 1996, winning a Tony Award in the process. In his work, Miller, a critic of communism, constructs an allegory to show the similarities between the Salem witch trials and Soviet Russia in hopes of opening the eyes of the American citizens who were blinded by the mass hysteria that communism caused. In the play, John Proctor, a man who has…

Crucible, you see many false judgements be passed. While the witch trials of Salem were going on many people passed judgement from themselves to whoever they could. More times than not, the accusations were false but one accusation was proven correct. Abigail Williams was to blame for the witch trials of Salem Massachusetts in 1692. Through Abigail's falsification, lust & spitefulness she proves to be the source of the witch hysteria that Salem experiences. Williams often times lies on…

evident theme in The Crucible is that selfishness interferes with morality. The witch trials in Salem show that people will do or say anything to get something for themselves. If they wanted something, they would say anything to get it. They forgot about their morals and values. A lot of the characters in The Crucible claimed to be very pious, even though they only cared what people thought of them. Everyone in Salem let the whole town go crazy. They were willing to let the community be…

The Salem Witch Trials began during the late winter and spring of 1692 when a group of young girls began to display strange behavior. They claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused many local women of witchcraft. The first convicted witch was Bridget Bishop and she was hanged. In January 1692, 9-year-old Elizabeth Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams began having fits, including violent deformity and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed…

Narrator: It is late 1692, the height of the Salem Witch trials. Today we hope to put on display a purely hypothetical reproduction of this trial. Let it be noted that the characters present in this trial are not based upon any one person of Salem and have made up histories and lives. Keeping this into account, any connections between these characters and those who really did live in Salem are to further flesh out the characters and have no basis in reality. What these characters and events do,…

about her ancestors involved in the Salem Witch Trials. Their names were the Carriers as well. However, Kent also wrote the novel to share a different perspective on the events. Most historical documents and fictional retellings focus on the main people involved in the trials: The girls and the accused from Salem. In The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent, Kent’s message is, like many other literature works, not to believe everything you hear. Different people have different opinions that will…

There are many causes to the Salem witch trials and all of them stem from the church and the direct view of the bible. The way that Puritan society functioned repressed human nature and caused normally good people to lash out at others because of their own sin. They also gained both societal status and monetary value from accusing others. The literal view of the bible led to a very skewed version of the court. Along with this the fact that the Puritans were very isolated from the rest of society…

America’s Crucible: Witches and Communists on TrialArthur Miller was widely successful in connecting the past Salem Witch Trials with the era of McCarthyism he lived in. The witch trials and McCarthyism were both times in America’s past that irrational fear led to paranoia and mass hysteria. Both of these events were practices of accusing someone of either being a witch or of having communist ties, with no substantially justified evidence. Arthur Miller demonstrates this success with his play,…

A crucible; a hard trial or a pot used for melting metal. Both require what is inside to resist heat or pressure or they will melt. In order for someone to survive the Salem witchcraft trials, they must be able to withstand the crucible and purify themselves when put under extreme heat and pressure. Anyone could be convicted at anytime of being a witch if someone caught them doing suspicious activities. Mary Warren, Reverend John Hale, and Abigail Williams were affected positively and negatively…

THE CRUCIBLE In 1952, Arthur Miller published The Crucible, a dramatization of the events of the Salem witch trials. However, it does not fall prey to the common misconception that the trials were simply a case of mass hysteria or superstition. Rather, the play highlights the social causes behind the deaths of the Salem ‘witches,’ finding drama within the conflicts among individuals and between the individual and society, within the consequences of extreme individualism and isolation. The play…