The unwarranted accusations that Joseph McCarthy and the citizens of Salem made are what fueled the widespread hysteria in both situations. According to Miller “It seemed that the hysteria in Salem had a certain inner procedure, or several, which were duplicating once again and that perhaps by revealing the nature of that procedure some light could be thrown on what we were doing ourselves. "(Miller) He made this statement in comparison to the present day witch hunts; which were at the time of the McCarthy trials. The people of Salem accused others of witchcraft to protect their own lives. In both eras, they struck fear in citizens due to the "guilty until you confess" attitude which were in favor of the court.
The whole event of the Salem Witch Trials is viewed as unjust because after the accusations spread, many townspeople simply accused their neighbors of being a witch to gain revenge, money, land, or something similar. In this way, the Salem Witch Trials exposed the sense of greed in humans. The Witch Trials showed that our resourcefulness includes using an event, no matter how bad, for personal gain. Also, the Salem Witch Trials showed how the innate sense of fear that humans have and how we react to that fear. Because of the fear of witches, people tried to protect themselves by sending anyone slightly untrustworthy to jail or to Gallows Hill.
This allows economical factors to become responsible for the European witch - craze to a large extent. The role of women and the elites also played a part. They were responsible to some extent. It was believed that women who had the power to heal were witches. Women were targeted, especially old women, midwives and unmarried women, as they were believed to release their anger and over men through witchery.
Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare shocks audiences with violent language, the supernatural witches and evilness. The nature of evil, in the context of this question, means ‘profoundly immoral and wicked’ which is true to most of the play especially after King Duncan’s murder. The nature of ambition in this context portends ‘a strong desire to achieve successes’. Based on these definitions, I agree with said view of this play to some extent. Evil is first inferred in Macbeth when we first meet the Weyward Sisters (witches) and they cantillate something: ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair.’ This juxtaposition of words indicates an unnatural feel which creates the feel of imminent evil from a possibly supernatural perpetrator.
In addition, the crucible is for three things, on the surface it plays witch trials, the crucible is the crash course in which hysteria can completely displace rational think and pit neighbors against neighbors, it’s also a traffic play that takes rights to the core of emotions that accused Salem accusers and its accused. John Proctor died for his name, and many other reasons. He was a man of pride. He possessed the qualities of persistency, honesty, and integrity. With those attributes, I am sure he was rewarded his prize in
And just when I realized that now even the most innocent person could be accused and arrested, Marshal Herrick came to my house. Abigail, that wretched, jealous girl, had marked Elizabeth for witchcraft. I must admit, I had been quite naive when I believed that the people of this village were a rational and unimpressionable people, raised as we were to be wary of all things wicked and sinful. But it may be that our blockade on all of these things has left us untrained and
Miller has portrayed the community of Salem as a town tainted by enigmatic irony as a result of the role reversal of good and evil, due to greed and autocratic power, aggravated by sexual repression, themes that are still prevalent in society today. Arthur millers dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch-trials administrates the compelling theme of order and disorder, provoked by sexual repression. The Crucibles Setting, culture and congruence to historical events enhance the audiences understanding of the order and beliefs of the puritan’s in the small, relatively new community of Salem. Basing its
THE CRUCIBLE. Throughout the crucible the pressures of social conformity cause the characters to make decisions that push them into denying their own personal beliefs, which are not socially accepted in Salem and results in lies and deceit. Perhaps the most prominent theme in the crucible is the importance of a good name, and the people of Salem are more than prepared to go to great lengths to protect their reputations. The Crucible takes place during the times of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates that were followed by court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft.
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a play which uncovers the positive and negative consequences that various interactions can have on society and individuals. Throughout the play multiple themes are discovered. One theme in particular that stood out to me was that not everyone and everything is as they appear. Some factors which come to light from this theme are the dishonour which comes with deceit and misunderstanding, the betrayal that one feels when being deliberately fooled, and the negative and positive results which can come from deception. Through both direct and indirect character interactions, we learn the importance of looking beyond ones façade to find where the truth lies.
This is a perfect example of how Galileo essentially started to disprove what the bible said. The jury of the trial of Suzanne Gaudry used previous stated facts in the trial to add together and come to a verdict that they believed was the proper decision based on what was stated in the trial. “Suzanne Gaudry coupled with her confessions, from which it would appear that she has always been ill-reputed for being stained with the crime of witchcraft, and seeing that took flight and sought refuge in this city of Valenciennes” the jury had used her past conflicts to prove that she was indeed a witch by restating that she had run and hid from authority so that she would not get caught and if you are running from authority most of the time you are not innocent. Galileo and the jury both have very similar techniques to get a real answer and conclusion. Galileo tested