...In the past hysteria formed itself in many different way,which include the Holocaust,Muslims after September 11,2001. Hysteria changed all the world because of a person’s irrational fears. All these lead to modern day witch hunt. In present day, modern day witch hunt is still a fear in humanity. This causes people to panic over dumb things that are not factual. It has caused most people in the world to believe what they hear or what other tell them.Even some people know it’s true but say it is just so they can fit in because, they fear if they don’t believe something bad will happen The Holocaust was a good example of witch hunt. Hitler targeted Jews because,a man named Julius Streicher led all Jewish businesses to boycott(Matias 1).Things...
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...The Red Scare persecution of the communists of the United States and Soviet Union amounts to a modern day witch hunt. A witch hunt typically involves a procedure for determining the guilt of the person or group against the accusations that have been made. Some characteristics of a witch hunt include the use of fake evidence, climate fear, and social forces. Likewise, this pattern of factors has appeared in the persecution of the United States. In comparison to a modern witch hunt, the red scare caused a lot of fear which led to violence with the 1919 anarchist bombings, a series of bombs targeting law enforcement and government officials. Bombs went off in a wide number of cities including Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, D.C., and New York...
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...Historically, witch-hunts are known as an unfair judgement against innocent people derived from fear. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller talks about the Salem witch trials, writing an allegory that references the communists who were being persecuted during the red scare. In fact, witch-hunts can still be compared to events that occur in modern day’s American society. With this in mind it is important to point out racial profiling, which has been increasing lately. It is known as the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether an individual is considered likely to commit an illegal act, leading to the unfair targeting of its victims. Arthur Miller profits from Salem’s history to address a higher concept, the McCarthyism,...
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...was a science began to fade and was linked with heresy and other negative thoughts like sorcery. The society came to reject the notion of safe and learned magic. There was even a purge to get rid of all magicians that were in England. If one were caught, practicing magic, spiritual and temporal punishments was accorded to them. The magician became to be treated and known as the latter day witches. The book looks into the complex that came from the transformation from the magician, to the witch and the various laws that came into effect during the Medieval times about the two. The book aids us in placing our understanding of medieval magic that was later known as witchcraft. Although heresy was part of the bad image that magic was furnished with hearsay, another was the long-standing Christian teachings that were about magic especially the learned magic that was rampant during the time. This led to later developments of magic turning into witchcraft. The earlier magic was tied to the culture and the way a people flourished. It was through the fear of persecution of magicians that led to a later day persecution of witches. The real stage that was the persecution of magicians set the stage for the purge of the witches especially in the fourteenth century. There was the involvement of various political influences also led to the persecution of magicians. The main question here can be why did a culture...
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...Crucible paper Throughout time and history man has always fear what differs from itself. Whether it be skin color, sexual orientation or religious beliefs; we’ve hunted that which is different from us. In today’s day we’d like to think we have grown pass these urges, but unfortunately we almost certainly do the same thing we did during the Salem witch trials in the 1600’s just minus the hangings (sometimes), and that’s what I’ll be discussing today by comparing events from the past 150 years to the crucible. But before we start here’s a quick over view of the crucible. The crucible is a play about a group of women who were practicing witch craft which is punishable by hanging because it is a sin. The got caught and to cover their tracks they lie on towns people they dislike claiming they are witches. The only way for the town’s people to avoid death is to lie which is also a sin, so they basically get charged with a sin and gave to sin for their life which challenges their beliefs. So to truly start this paper I would like to talk about the trials of the African American people. The African American people have been hunted since we gained are freedom in the 1860’s. As soon as we got are freedom the Caucasian people refused us basic living rights because we were different. If you were black and caught by the racist they lynched you, Lynching is when a person is hung from an object and for an alleged event, kind of like in the crucible they were different so they hung. Caucasian’s...
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...The main super hero that is the example of this is Super Man. Super Man is the Hero of all heroes in the comic book he never does wrong and he cannot be harm by anything but kryptonite! Super man was one of the first comic books to gain popularly about the prefect man giving justice to those who have none. This is the idea that many people get the word vigilantism. Which many people now don’t connection negative actions to Vigilantism because of super heroes! However a comic series called the watchmen showcase a large group of heroes trying to hunt down a murder that is knocking off heroes. With most of the heroes having different style of vigilant and why they do it. Each fellow a style some of the heroes are bash, aggressive and then shoot ask question later another being clam and deducted. But both style of vigilantism is a type in which a person can tell what going on and who doing it. This is another type of vigilantism which being more common are computer vigilantism, which been growing along style the internet. Their new style of vigilant style that came around because of the internet and it also was different from many other. The Internet vigilantism is different because most any one can do it and it can be done from anywhere that has an internet connection but it also makes...
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...experimental testing, although individual witchcraft practices and effects may be open to scientific explanation or explained via mentalism and psychology. Historically, the predominant concept of witchcraft in the Western world derives from Old Testament laws against witchcraft, and entered the mainstream when belief in witchcraft gained Church approval in the Early Modern Period. It posits a theosophical conflict between good and evil, where witchcraft was generally evil and often associated with the Devil and Devil worship. This culminated in deaths, torture and scapegoating, and many years of large scale witch-trials and witch hunts, especially in Protestant Europe, before largely ceasing during the European Age of Enlightenment. Christian views in the modern day are diverse and cover the gamut of views from intense belief and opposition to non-belief, and in some churches even approval. From the mid-20th century, witchcraft – sometimes called contemporary witchcraft to clearly distinguish it from older beliefs – became the name of a branch of modern paganism. It is most notably practiced in the Wiccan and modern witchcraft traditions, and no longer...
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...all-time high. It was a time of fear and paranoia for everyone, and it wasn’t just from the threat of the Communists. There was a nationwide search for Communists, Communist sympathizers, and even anyone who acted suspicious. There was no requirements for an accusation, which led it to become a modern day witch hunt. This idea of the McCarthy Era being a modern day witch hunt is what countless historians, authors, and poets have tried to relate. Which means there is no surprise that Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is an allegory for the Red Scare and the McCarthy Era as well. To start off, the background of The Crucible was awfully similar to that of the McCarthyism Era, making it viable grounds for creating an allegory....
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...Over 300 years ago the era of the witch hunts took place. Now in 2016, we still see signs of these witch hunts everyday. Specifically during things to do with our president Donald Trump. Trump and his followers are perceived as the good group going after the “witches”, also known as Muslims, immigrants or “terrorists”. Much of the injustices and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials can still be seen in the issues we deal with today. When campaigning to be the president of the United States, Donald made many racist and discriminating comments. Trump decided on his own that he wants to build a wall and send immigrants “back to where they came from” even though most of them were born in the United States. The good group perceived is Donald Trump...
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...Ethan kale The Crucible Final Essay I believe that if Arthur Miller were alive today he would be okay with letting Syrian refugees into the country. After reading the crucible and why he wrote it I can tell that he has very liberal thoughts and disagrees with the government on a lot of different things. I think he would be okay with letting them in because he feels for the people who have done nothing wrong and are receiving no help at all. Arthur Miller personally knows what it feels like to be neglected by the government like he was in the 1950s and 60s. I don't think Arthur Miller would be okay with Trumps travel ban for many reasons. One reason is that he based a lot of the Crucible play about the government falsely accusing people of...
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...During Rosalyn Schanzer’s Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, many innocent people were accused of being witches in the town of Salem. While this was going on, many people were striked with a terrible disease that caused horrible fits! The girls were diagnosed with being bewitched, and the witch trials of Salem began! While people don´t know whether the girls were faking being afflicted or not, most can agree that that something like this never happened again. However, I believe differently, as evidenced by The Red Scare, The US hunting down ¨terrorists¨, and prosecution of Japanese Americans during World War 2. All of the things I mentioned above are actually very similar to the witch trials. Such as In the 50s, there...
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...that many women and men faced from unfair trials that ended many people’s lives, or how witch trials are still occurring all over the globe today. The events of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 stand as a difficult testament to a troubling period in history. The historic event sheds light on the severe injustices suffered by women within a deeply rooted patriarchal society. This research paper aims to uncover the various forms of discrimination and oppression endured by women during the Salem Trials, but also the enduring forms...
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...Cultural Repetition, Regression, and Variation Throughout history, the same events are repeated as groups of people deal with problems in their society. Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, was written when McCarthyism, which involved the persecution of suspected communists, was at a high. The play explores the seemingly timeless parallels of panicked groups hoping to protect themself and their own between the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era trials that are still applicable today as the fight on terror advances. Notwithstanding the likeness between the three, anomalies appear that show growth or even regression in a culture do remain. Events such as unfair stereotyping, magnified paranoia, and targeting ideas through accusing people,...
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...jennifer lux 12/8/15 The Crucible analysis “We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterday”- Persius. There have been moments in history where people were too consumed in fear that they broke many of their morals and due to powerful situations people behaved differently than their normal self. A play called the Crucible was written in 1953 by Author Miller to portray the unfairness at that time due to people being accused of witches with little to no evidence and then hanged. This event was called the Salem witch trials, which took place in the province of Massachusetts Bay. This play is an allegory to the McCarthy Hearings that took place from 1950 to 1956. The McCarthy hearings occurred in 1947; President Truman ordered background checks of every civilian in service to the government due to a fear of people within the United States being a communist spy. The fear of communism intensified when a high ranked official Alger Hiss was convicted of being a communist spy. Senator Joseph McCarthy stepped in and convinced/alarm people within the U.S that there were Communist and Communist sympathizers that would try to overthrow the government. As a result, he formed a special Congressional committee to investigate Americans who were suspected of Communist activities and this movement was named McCarthyism. The Crucible is a play that is universal and enduring because it uses allegory and archetypes to teach readers...
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...the recent events are to be considered witchcraft, she exclaims sarcastically, “But I must! You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village and fires within fires!” (Miller). The only reason Goody Putnam believes the death of her babies is due to witchcraft is because of Abigail’s lies. The original lie created by Abigail allowed for the Putnams’ to justify blaming someone else for the death of their children. Even though she is trying to explain how her miscarriages are because of supernatural causes that nobody understands, her metaphor about wheels and fires can actually be used to represent the lies and hidden motivations of the witch hunt. It is ironic because her statement is a lie in itself, that stemmed from Abigail’s hidden motivation. This relates to McCarthyism because lies that were supported with false evidence created more hostility and tension between people. Everyone thought that everyone was a communist. They accused each other only because everyone was doing...
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