influenced minds of an entire community. The Red Scare connects to The Crucible by the indistinguishable missing evidence of the accused and crossing the border to a megalomaniac. In addition, Miller uses actual names and historical events from the Salem Witch hunt in the 1690s in this play. He uses these events to explain what happened with Abigail’s plan for lovelorn revenge by the similar false accusations, mass hysteria, and aspiration of power during the Red Scare. During the red scare in the 1950s
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Behind the Madness Although witchcraft is commonly associated with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, there were also other trials throughout the century across colonial New England. It is important to look at some of these other trials also in order to see their cultural and historical impacts. The impacts are often overlooked because all of the attention tends to be put towards the Salem trials. One trial in particular, the 1669 trial of Katherine Harrison, is interesting to look at because of its particular
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The Connection by Kathleen Orozco P. Sepesi English 3.1 December 5, 2011 Outline I. Introduction II. America in the 1600’s A. Puritanism B. Salem Witch Trials III. America in the 1950’s A. Communism B. Joseph McCarthy IV. McCarthyism A. McCarthy Trials (HUAC) B. Blacklisting C. Elia Kazan D. Arthur Miller V. The Crucible A. The Summary B. The theme VI. The Allegory A. Danforth and the HUAC B. Danforth and Joseph McCarthy C. Elia Kazan and Abigail Williams
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past: The Salem Witch Trials and the “Red Scare,” or Joseph McCarthy and the House of Un-American Activities Committee. These two periods of American history are remarkably similar in numerous ways. The Salem Witch Trials in 1692 and the Hunt for Communists during the 1950’s-60’s shows something man, for some reason, continues to not realize about history: it repeats itself. The Salem Witch Trials began in the spring of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. There were many factors that made Salem Colony
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talks about a witch-hunt that took place in 1962 which compares to the “Red Scare” that went on in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s. Miller writes about a Puritan village with a Christian religion that seems to be forgotten when under pressure. Puritans are taught to stick to their Christian beliefs, and in The Crucible, they simply stray away from the beliefs and violate them to save their own life. One instance where they go away from their puritan beliefs is that the people of Salem drift away from
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1. We know about the Salem Witch Trials because 29-year-old Cotton Mather was asked by the ________minister_________ of the colony to ______write a book on_______ an account of the Witch crisis. 2. Reverend Samuel Paris, the minister of Salem Village, had a 9 year old daughter named ____Betty_________ Paris and an 11-year old niece named Abigail ___Williams________. 3. In January of 1692, the girls were “afflicted” by invisible agents. A doctor came in, couldn’t understand what was wrong with
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History is said to repeat itself if we do not learn from our past mistakes. The Salem witch trials and the time of McCarthyism have many uncanny similarities. Both incidents, 258 years apart, involved a mass hysteria that many people got swept away in. During these times, anyone who seemed unusual or suspicious got accused of witchcraft/communism. These two events were started by people who took advantage of a fear that everyone else had. Abigail Williams and Joseph McCarthy kept the accusations
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in society. Millers article “Are You Now or Were You Ever?”, discusses how the McCarthy Era in the 1950s and the Salem Witch Trials are abundantly similar since both dealt with fear and paranoia in society, this led to the writing of The Crucible to begin as a result with rhetorical strategies such as rhetorical questions and the appeal to ethos.
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Reverend Samuel Parris In 1692 hysteria gripped the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. Multiple towns’ people were accused of practicing witch craft and the accusations spread like wildfire from Salem to the surrounding areas. In Salem fourteen women and four men were hanged for denying the practice of witch craft, and one man was crushed to death under boulders for not cooperating with the investigation into witch craft. All other townspeople who admitted to being witches were allowed to live
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the Christian society of Salem, Massachusetts 1692. The concept of social pressure and rules are used to establish the play. If the common man in Salem is to work proficiently in his surroundings, he must participate in all social activities or he faces the consequences of untrue allegations. Miller uses the character John Proctor as a prime example whose individuality ultimately isolates him from his community. Proctor tries to avoid any involvement in the Salem witch trials. His reason for this attempt
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