Parallels between The Crucible, and more modern examples of oppression such as the McCarthy hearings of the 1950's, are appalling. ... It is a portrayal of young women who are caught practicing witchcraft and dancing, in a strict Puritan community. ... Scenes such as the opening scene, with the girls practicing witchcraft and dancing. ...
The play opens with children dancing in the woods, an obvious sin according to the puritans. ... Abbey leads all the girls who danced in accusing every woman in town who had ever looked at them funny of being a witch. ... Now once again, even in this modern age, crusade type battles are still raging on in Isreal. ...
In the modern world today deals with all emotions that can consume the human body. A few are love, hate, happiness, fear and suspicion. In Arthur Millers >The Crucible=, Miller clearly feels that fear and suspicion lead to a mass hysteria that causes innocent deaths. Today we have a highly sophistic...
It's the voice of God talking."19 At the age of fifty-two, Richards can still support herself and her husband with the money she earns as a professional psychic.20 Ghost hunting clubs, alien-searching satellites, and psychics are only a few of the many outlets available to Americans in modern times. ... Her two main series are The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches.22 The Vampire Chronicles portrays modern vampires through a vampire's eyes, often as victims of the "dark gift"23 of vampirism, struggling to come to terms with their nature or accepting it and moving o...
In the play, when the girls of Salem were caught dancing in the woods and two of the girls would not wake up, it caused people in the town to believe that the devil has possessed the girls. ... McCarthy is the modern Abigail Williams. ... As Proctor said it, "She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave." ...
Earlier, Parris had heard a commotion in the forest and discovered his niece, Abigail, and her friends: Betty, Mary Warren, and Mercy Lewis, and Tituba, his Caribbean slave, swaying and dancing in the forest to Tituba's Barbados songs. ... Parris shares that he saw a kettle in the grass in which the girls danced; Abigail dismisses it as soup, but Parris is still afflicted by hysteria, and fearfully tells that he believes he saw some movement in the soup! ... Miller points out that in his modern crisis "Nobody but a fanatic, it seemed, could really say all that he believed....
The society and the culture of the Puritan age were extremely different from modern society. ... We danced. ... In the chastening of the Puritans, in order to maintain a clean lifestyle there were numerous restrictions such as dancing and alcohol. ...
When Abigail accused Elizabeth Proctor it was obvious to John that Abigail was trying to " dance with him on his wife's grave"(Miller 110). ... If the people in this world cannot learn to control their greedy desires it will end up like a modern day Salem. ...
The Actual Salem Witch Trials vs. The Crucible The Salem Witch trials of 1692, was a time in American history that portrayed how unstable society could be. Salem, Massachusetts was torn apart by lies and accusations made solely on the basis of their imagination and own personal grudges. Some pi...
Some modern versions cast the story as something that has to do with intolerance of difference, that the accused were really just oddballs that the community tacitly approved getting rid of, but most of the people who were accused, convicted and executed in Salem were remarkable by their very devotion to community norms. ... Parris from then on denies the true story and only admits that the girls were dancing. ...
Miller brilliantly expresses a particular crisis the modern witch hunt in his own society, but it is not often, in ou own world, that the issues and statements so clearly emerge in a naturally dramatic form (13). ... The Crucible was included in schools as a modern classic. ... In Salem, Massachusetts, a black slave woman and twelve teenage girls were caught dancing around a bubbling cauldron in the woods, despite the fact that dancing was not allowed by the Puritans. The Puritan government ruled the church in 1692 and relig n believed that women who dance with the Devil are witches. ... It wa...
Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the woods at night. ... Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. ...
