The Crucible: Cause & Effect One of the most awful chapters in human history, is oppression. ... 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 similarity between these historical times makes one aware of the cycle of history that humans experience, and the dangerous results of hysteria that characterized each time period. ... As intelligent human beings, it is within our power to prevent history from repeating itself. ...

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The Crucible The Salem Witch trials of 1692, was a time in American history that portrayed how unstable society could be. ... Upham and The Salem Witchcraft Delusion by Alice Dickinson. ... This book told of a case of witchcraft in Boston in the year 1688, involving the children of John Goodwin. ... Soon after, she was sentenced to death for the practice of witchcraft and working with the devil. Mather firmly believed this was a case of witchcraft and his opinion influenced others. ...

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So, when the whole idea of witchcraft arose in this little town, people were shocked and amazed, especially because it was the children that were involved. In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, he retells history, but modifies a few minor details, and adds in a few from his own imagination along the way. The one main detail that he altered of this terribly unfair period in our nation's history was Abigail Williams's age, one of the main young women involved in the tale. ... If Abby was only the tender age of eleven in Miller's play, he would not be able to make her out as ...

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In his writings he warned us of this philosophy's dangers by bringing to light a tragic but meaningful event in our history. ... One similarity was that anyone who undermined the authority of the judges in Salem was accused of witchcraft and the same held true during the red scare when people were accused of being communist. ... Although unfair, Americans adopted this sort of judgment to crush the ideas of witchcraft and communism in fear that one of these philosophies would prevail. ...

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Like the room, the only window is small and barred, symbolising no escape from the future events, and adding to the over crowded, claustrophobic feeling, of a room filled with hysterical characters accusing each other of witchcraft. ... All of the accusations of witchcraft in the play are made in the hysteria of the moment, and the underlying factors contributing to this hysteria are often caused from the characters secret fears and motives. ... History however has seen countless leaders, whose wrongful use o...

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The Salem Witch Trials are an important part of history and should be studied by people throughout the world. ... Putman, Abigail and the girls involved in the witchcraft, Abigail and Reverend Paris, John Proctor and Paris, John Proctor and Elizabeth, and John Proctor and Hale. ... We include this play in the study history for many reasons. ...

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Today societies are at a crisis of history and how the actions of today will decide and determine whether the world goes up from here or continues to slide into a new dark era. ... The history of Salem is nothing more than a set of unjust lies the entire society agreed upon. ... The very essence of the many lies that caused such chaos and injustice in Salem began with Abigail Williams' lie to her attempt to kill Elizabeth Procter through witchcraft and the conjuring of spirits in order to gain the love of John Procter....

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