The Accusation

She failed to recognize this and took the file for her own personal satisfaction. Lina lets her intense emotions take over her in the moment. This leads to the final reason on why she cannot see reality, which is having no foresight about how her accusations hurt…

distinguished by the victims and the effects on the commoners. Both started with accusations with no reasonable evidence. An accusation is a claim that someone has done something wrong or illegal. In both trials McCarthy and Abigail Williams were the driving force behind the accusations that spread around. People began to believe the rumours going around…

centuries, which are for the accused to be able to defend oneself from the accusations that are set upon him. An important trial was during 399 B.C which was for the man named Socrates, he was on trial for ancient accusations, impiety, for as well as the corruption of youth of Athens. Socrates had three accusers, the name of the three accusers are Anytus, Meletus, and Lycon. He starts defending himself from the new accusations first, then continues to finish with the ancient one. He then…

when someone is falsely accused of rape and there is hardly any evidence to back up the claim they are still looked at as a guilty sexual offender. A false accusation of sexual abuse occurs more often than most people would expect. Reasons for false accusations are mostly intentional and otherwise erroneous. It is often argued that false accusations could have severe…

False accusations were a major issue throughout both times because many men and woman accused without evidence. Fear was brought on many who were accused because they fear that worse was to come upon them if they were accused of being a communist or a witch .During…

or excluded from work, social events, and/ or society. Accusations were made against people that others didn’t like or saw as a threat, most of the accusations made were false. If you were found suspicious of committing a terror crime as a Muslim in any way, you would be arrested unjustly possibly without proof, sent to a jail(possibly tortured for information), and/or deported out of the countries in the west. The downfall of the accusations were people pointing fingers at innocent people who…

punishment. Accusations continued to fly around the town from all sorts of locations. The fact that individuals were so frightened of the accusations of witchcraft and refused to do anything displayed intolerance. There was an absence of understanding between each other. Very minimal amount of people came to the convict’s defense but most turned their backs and looked the other way, even if it were a friend or family member. The citizens played along with the nonsense of accusations and…

during this time period, are similar to what happened during The Salem Witchcraft Trials in Massachusetts in the year 1692. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller demonstrates the similarities of Abigail Williams and Senator Joseph McCarthy, false accusations, people starved for power, and lack of evidence against the accused. One of the most noticeable connections is the similarities between Abigail Williams in The Crucible…

crime, somebody needs to contain evidence to support the accusation. For example, when people write papers, they must support their ideas or accusations with evidence from the reading. During the trial of Martha Carrier many people accused her of witchcraft without any evidence. First, a number of people approached the court about Martha Carrier tormenting them, so when Martha Carrier stood in front of a jury, it was based off of accusations with no evidence. Five different people stated that…

obsessed and paranoid over communism in the United States. In The Crucible, people were being accused of witchcraft, and during the Red Scare people were being accused of communism. In both, people who were a victim of any of these false accusations…