‘The Devil on Trial’ by Phillip Margulies and Maxine Rosaler The book, The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, and Terrorists in America’s Courtroom, discusses the rights people have in the courtroom. It tells the stories of cases that tested the court system’s ability to give everyone the right to a fair trial. The trials mentioned in the book are the Salem Witch Trials, the Haymarket Bomb Trial, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, the Trials of Alger Hiss, and the Trials of Zacarias Moussaoui. In 1692, during the Salem Witch Trials, the legal systems were not as fair as they would become. “There was no police force; officials called “magistrates” performed the roles of judges.
I sucks that I missed the fur show, but Jay Cee needed me. After feel depressed, Jay Cee called me in, and asked me some questions, like if I find my job interesting and I didn’t really know what to do. Wait, why am I still hungry? I just ate some much at the banquet, yet I still feel hungry. Place- Chapter 9 Esther visits the UN and sees buddy, and remembers the relationship with him.
She even changed her name to Hulga because it was the ugliest name she could think of. One day, a bible salesman, Manley Pointer, comes to her house and her mother invites him to stay for dinner. While Manley is at dinner, he becomes fascinated with Hulga. Manley asks Hulga if they could go on a picnic the following day. That night, Hulga imagined that she seduced Manley.
They go inside and no one says anything. * “As she glanced around the table she thought at the picture of the first thanksgiving on the bulletin board at school: The smiling pilgrims eating turkey and squash, the stern faced Native Americans looking as if they knew the worst was yet to come.” P.15 * This quote is a metaphor for the people at the table. I think the pilgrims are the children enjoying themselves because they don’t know what is happening or what’s to come. The parents are the Native Americans, because they know that this is only to going to keep getting
Now, Abigail wants to eliminate Elizabeth from the equation, so she accuses Elizabeth of being a witch in hopes that Elizabeth will be hanged and John Proctor single. Abigail doesn’t see Elizabeth as a human; she completely devalues her life by calling her a witch and doing what she can to have Elizabeth killed. A modern day issue that relates to The Crucible by devaluing human life is human trafficking, or modern day slavery. It is estimated that about 20.9 million people are living in slavery today, which is more people than the total amount of people brought from Africa to America during the slave trade between the 17th and 19th centuries ("New ILO Global Estimate of Forced Labour: 20.9 million victims"). These people are forced to work for little or no pay, often sold into a lifetime of rape, abuse, and intense labor, sometimes as young as five or six years old.
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Background: The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 have been studied by many historians looking for the complex social, political, and psychological determinants behind the community wide hysteria that led to the death of 20 innocent Puritans. Ergot poisoning has been put forth by some as a previously unsuspected cause of the bizarre behaviors of the young adolescent girls who accused the townsfolk of witchcraft. During the early winter of 1692 two young girls became inexplicably ill and started having fits of convulsion, screaming, and hallucinations. Unable to find any medical reason for their condition the village doctor declared that there must be supernatural forces of witchcraft at work. This began an outbreak of hysteria that would result in the arrest of over one hundred-fifty people and execution of twenty women and men.
The witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a major issue again and peaking in the 17th century. During the 17th century, belief in witchcraft was very popular. Due to the spread of witch hunting books such as the Malleus Maleficarum, people quickly became engrossed with the thought of witchcraft. What had previously been a belief that some people possessed supernatural abilities (which were sometimes used to protect the people) now became a sign of a pact between the people with supernatural abilities and the devil.
It makes perfect sense as to why Miller wrote The Crucible allegorically to these events, 1953 was a time in which American fear and madness concerning communism was frankly getting out of control, just as the experiences in Salem were in the 1690s. The Crucible is a historically fictitious adaption of the Salem Witch Trials which as previously stated, was an episode of unjust accusations of witchcraft/devil worship carried out by a group of female teens. In the play, the group of accusing teens is led by girl named Abigail Williams. In order to refocus the “heat” on another source in order to save herself from trouble, her and her peers wrongfully stage a phenomenon of witchcraft in Salem, producing mass panic in the community for months on end. It got so bad in fact, that at one point Abigail implied that even the official court judges could be guilty of wicked doings; “Let you beware, Mr. Danforth.
This leads into the deaths of the innocent people who are accused and automatically found guilty. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the people of Salem are responsible for the witch hysteria. The person with the most influence on the hysteria is Abigail. In the past, Abigail had an affair with John Proctor. She gets jealous when Proctor leaves her to go back to his wife, Elizabeth.