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Salem Witchcraft

             Arthur Miller's play " The Crucible" dealt with the witchcraft trials of 1692, which took place in Salem, Massachusetts. In Salem people were accused of witchcraft but also they were defenseless against false accusations. This play explored that people could give their fears and superstitions to other people, and when they were succumbed to mass hysteria they often acted unlike themselves and made false accusations. Many innocent and respectable people in the Salem village have sentenced to be hanged without evidence and justification. It showed the cruelty of human beings. Even in McCarthy story, Arthur Miller uses similar plot to convey the reader his own inner beliefs against the false accusations. McCarthy had brought many troubles and started the Great fear in the United State without any evidence. He embarked the idea that communism existed in United State and brought fear into society. He accused people with spectral evidence; he skill fully manipulated people and created turmoil. He was enjoying the chaotic situation he created in society. Mc Carthy accused people and about five hundred people were put onto the blacklist. Many innocent people were harassed and humiliated by Mc Carthy's false accusations. By the time the Great Fear had run its course in society about six hundred colleague's professors had been dismissed and harassed. As mass hysteria permeated through the towns and cities, many people became even more ridiculous and out of control, just like in Salem village. They started accusing each other. The trusties between people were broken and people didn't believe each other. And many business owners did not tolerate people in the blacklist to be workers. People's ignorance made them believe McCarthyism easily and not doubtfully. McCarthyism the Salem witchcraft hysteria thought me that fear, ignorance, and abuse of power can create turmoil. .
            


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1. Salem Witchcraft Trials

Salem Witchcraft Trials During the Salem Witchcraft Trials if one person believes something, all the rest will follow. Modern day people learned this in Salem, Massachusetts during the witchcraft trials. ... People in Salem believed that there were witches in Salem, and he/she were not going to think anything different. ... That is why everybody in the Salem village really thought there were witches. ... Things in Salem are not really all that much different to today's society. ...

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2. Salem Witchcraft Trials

Salem Witch Trials In 1692, the witchhunt was the event that took place during a difficult and confusing period for Salem Village, however the social tensions in colonial help the witchhunt motivated. ... In fact, the government also refused about the witchcraft since his wife also being accused. On the other hand, the chart in document A show social tension because it speculate the economy of Pro-Parris and Anti-Parris of Salem Village. ... Specifically, by the time the storm subsided in October, serveral hundred persons had been accused of witchcraft, about 150 of them formally change...

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3. Witchcraft

People living in Salem were also very religious. They had a strong belief in the devil and witchcraft. ... In 1692 lots of men and women stood trial for witchcraft. ... In Salem in 1692 a young girl, Betty Parris, became oddly ill. ... Doctor Griggs studied the girls and he said that the girls symptoms might some how be related to witchcraft. ...

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4. Witchcraft

Witchcraft: The History The subject of witchcraft is something that has fascinated and instilled fear in people for centuries. ... More than anything, Salem was a publicity stunt for these times that we live in, or future times we might not see. ... Whereas in the Salem trials, (a much more civilized place!) ... The court at this time found witchcraft to be a felony, and as the 17 accused witches of Salem found out, hanging is the punishment. ... Not to mention what made the sick girls in Salem cry out names of witches. ...

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5. The Salem Witchcraft Trials

This hysteria is better known as the Salem Witchcraft trials. ... Salem Town and Salem Village shared same minister, Samuel Parris, and used the same church. ... They could use that evidence to accuse their neighbor of using witchcraft. ... He was suspected witchcraft. ... Two hundred people we accused of witchcraft, nineteen of which were hanged. ...

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6. Salem witchcraft trials

Salem, Massachusetts 1692 Dear Honorable Governor, I believe sir that you have done only beneficial acts for our stunning town of Salem, Massachusetts, and I am proud to be a resident of this place with you as the governor of our people. ... Everyday, people are being indicted for witchcraft. ... Is this how you want our children to grow up in Salem, growing up in fear? ... From June through September, nineteen men and women have already been convicted of witchcraft. ... The Salem witchcraft trials are unjust and wrong, and we, with your help, must end them now! ...

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Salem Witchcraft Trials During the Salem Witchcraft Trials if one person believes something, all the rest will follow. Modern day people learned this in Salem, Massachusetts during the witchcraft trials. ... People in Salem believed that there were witches in Salem, and he/she were not going to think anything different. ... That is why everybody in the Salem village really thought there were witches. ... Things in Salem are not really all that much different to today's society. ...

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8. Salem Witch Controversy

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum argue that the Salem witchcraft hysteria was caused by economic and social tension that emerged from commercial capitalism, conflicts between ministers and congregations, and loss of family land which divided the residents of Salem town and Salem village. ... The Puritan temper was in Salem from the start. ... "Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft." ... Salem called it witchcraft. ... With limited medical knowledge, the only way the doctors could explain this was witchcraft. ...

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9. The Salem Witchcraft Trials

During the years 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts a young girl fell sick. ... In 1672 Salem Village, a small farming village split from Salem Town, a prosperous town in Massachusetts. ... Due to the recent split Salem Village was given the right to build it's own church and Samuel Paris was named the minister. ... When the town physician could not diagnose the girls, it was assumed they were victims of witchcraft. ... The Puritan religion, now far less popular than in seventeenth century Salem, dictated the lives of its followers. ...

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