People of the Salem witch trials

The Crucible by Arthur Miller provides a historical fiction account of the Salem witch trials. The play, written in the 1950’s, has many similarities to the McCarthyism that swept across the United States at the time. Arthur Miller uses many different literary elements to tell the story of the trials including Irony, Allusions and Archetypes. One element used in The Crucible is Irony. “Irony is a literary technique that involves a difference between appearance and reality, expectations and…

Sometimes, things are just not what they seem to be on the surface. There are lots of reasons that would make it like this. When there are lots of people that are scared and all the sudden some person comes in and starts to fix all the problems, it is great and you get caught up in what is being fix even if there is no reasonable explanation for why it is being fixed. You just know that they are helping you and helping others or so it looks like. It calms you and you go with what that person is…

Hale arrives in Salem thinking that his authority is in the books that he reads and that every decision should be made after reading many books and examining the possible choices. After being in Salem for a few months and enduring the Salem witch trials, Rev. Hale learns to find authority inside himself and nowhere else. The change in Reverend Hale can be seen through his statements throughout the play and how his tone changes from being positive that there was witch craft in Salem to being a…

Communists during the Cold War era and the mass hysteria that arose and resulted in witch hunts for them. Playwright Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in a climactic tone in order to discuss the issue of the Red Scare and the hunt for Communists. He specifically targeted everyday Americans that were involved or supported McCarthyism with the goal of creating an allegory between the Salem Witch Trials and the congressional trials of that time in the form of a play reflecting this idea. The…

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and consisted of prosecutions of women and some men who were thought to have been practicing witchcraft. These women were taken to trial, and if they were convicted of practicing witchcraft, they were violently put to death. With the rising tensions in the colony, The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were caused by curiosity in religious beliefs, young women claiming they were possessed by the devil, and troubles arising among the community. By this point the…

Puritan culture started in the seventeenth century and during this time many people went against God and were considered witches if they had special talents and because people didn’t know how else to look at them. Older women had a harder time admitting they were involved in witchcraft because they have kept the secret for so long. The question is who were the puritans? Christians. They held a much stricter view of their religion than anyone else. They thought that other religions were too…

The witch trials, undisputed by Proctor, leads to the arrest of numerous respectable members of the Salem community. This transforms the views of many characters in the drama, especially Reverend John Hale, a young minister who is initially the main force behind the witch trials. The arrest of the more prominent accused changes Hale’s beliefs by giving him a new perspective and challenging…

hysteria has had on communities, fearful residents never contribute to the success and happiness of a community, but rather the destruction of one. Examples of times when hysteria has taken control of a weak community can be found in looking at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and in McCarthyism from the late 1940s to mid-1950s. However, while society has learned from these experiences, this does not make it so that hysteria is completely avoidable. Even in this modern-day and age, hysteria can be…

broke through in 1953 discussing the conflicting time of the Salem Witch Trials. During this time people were treated unequally if they were being accused of being a so called “ witch”. A leader of the accusations was Abigail Williams the niece of the town's preacher Reverend Parris. Abigail was peculiar young girl with a conscious mind and a cold heart. Her specific goal was to have Elizabeth Proctor accused and hanged in front of Salem. Imagine that happening in today’s society if someone was…

whole life and he is anxious to do things literally by the book-to defeat evil against good as inculcated in the religious books that he brings along with him to the town of Salem. However, when Miller starts to describe Hale’s past…