Salem Witch Trials In The Crucible

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, was a historical play written about the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692-93. The Salem witch trials created mass hysteria throughout the entire village of Salem, which was also mainly inhabited by Puritans. Puritans had a set ideal of firm beliefs that managed how they lived. Essentially, they were living as an elect, which meant they (referring to the Puritans) had a place in heaven for the righteous acts they have done in the physical world. Meaning, any sinful acts could potentially hinder the chances of entering heaven as an elect. The Crucible, questioned everything the Puritans abided by. It questioned the basic morals of a pure lifestyle, adultery and

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an interpretation of the Salem witch trials of 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts in which religion, justice, individuality and dignity play a vital role. These factors define the characteristics of many of the most significant characters in the play. Some of them being John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale, Danforth and many others. The Salem witch trials were a result of the lack of expression of individuality and the fact that no individual could expect justice from the majority culture as a result of the deterioration of human dignity in the Puritan society of Salem.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible focuses on the Salem Witch Trials along with the pointing of fingers that went along with it. Miller wrote this to reflect upon what was occurring during the Red Scare in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The Crucible is written in an ironic and cynical tone mocking the Red Scare.

Arthur Miller's the Crucibles tells us about the Salem witch trials which occurred in Massachusetts in 1692. Miller has used many details that have

The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It all started when Reverend Parris discovers a group of girls dancing in the woods. After he found the girls in the wood, his daughter Betty fall ill. Since Betty wouldn’t wake up, people become paranoid and started believing that witchcraft was real. Fake accusations were made and innocent people kept dying. In The Crucible there are many people to blame for all for everything that occurred, characters such a Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, and Reverend Parris. Abigail Williams is to blame because she accused everyone else just to protect herself. Reverend Hale is also blame because he was the one who got people to think that witchcraft was real. Lastly Reverend Parris is to blame because he was just worried about himself and his reputation in Salem.

The Crucible, a historical play based on events of the Salem witchcraft trials, takes place in a small Puritan village in the colony of Massachusetts in 1692. The witchcraft trials, as Miller explains in a prose prologue to the play, grew out of the particular moral system of the Puritans, which promoted interference in others' affairs as well as a repressive code of conduct that frowned on any diversion from norms of behavior.

These days, dressing up like a witch for Halloween is very normal. The year was 1962 when Salem Massachusetts was forever cemented in history because of the Salem witch trials. People accused of witch craft were imprisoned or hung and in one occasion a person was pressed to death. I can only imagine what the people of Salem were going through those days. There was a fear in the entire town because you couldn’t trust anyone. It became neighbor against neighbor as the small town was torn apart and people didn’t know who to trust. One of the most important persons from these times was Cotton Mather. He was an accomplished author, researcher, and preacher who worker under his father at Boston’s North Church. In “From the Wonders of the Invisible World” Mather writes about the Salem Witch Trials and what happened when some people recanted their testimony of being witches.

The Crucible was based in 1692 in and around the town of Salem, Massachusetts, USA. The Salem witch-hunt was view as one of the strangest and most horrendous chapters in the human history. People that were prosecuted were all innocent and their deaths were all due to false accusation of people’s ridiculous belief in superstition and their paranoia. The Puritans in those times were very strict in personal habits and morality; swearing, drunkenness and gambling would be punished. The people of Salem believed in the devil and thought that witchcraft should be hunted out.

In Arthur Miller’s the Crucible, which in located in Salem,Massachusetts had a troublesome time called the Salem Witch Trials, it was a time of murder and assumptions based on people’s thoughts of their neighbors it had to deal with Witchcraft. Relationships have changed threw this time some for good and some for bad.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, is a play that replicates the actual events of the Salem Witch Trials. The event is considered mass hysteria because there was a vast group of people who were behaving completely irrationally. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts throughout 1962 and 1963. Salem was a theocratic town, meaning their laws were derived from religion. Children dancing in the woods with Tituba, the slave of the town Reverend, led to accusations of witchcraft because dancing was thought of as the devil's work. There were, of course, a few members of Salem who did not believe in witchcraft, but their opinions were ignored. The reason this became a hysteria is, all one had to in order to get someone arrested for witchcraft was state their name. These accusations then became a way to get revenge on someone who had done wrong to them. The large number of victims of the Salem Witch Trials, and the speed and senselessness of the spreading of accusations, makes this event a tragic part of our history.

The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller written in the 1950’s. It was set in the 1690’s in Massachusetts. The play is about the witch trials and how something like a group of girls in the woods could lead to about 200 people being hanged and accused of witchcraft. The people of Salem were new to Massachusetts as they were puritans who went off to America to set up a new religious colony . The people were new to their surroundings had the Native Americans as enemies because they took their land. Although the Crucible is about the witch trials, it is thought to be a metaphor for the McCarthy Communist trials

Look at this first graph. See how 225 Salem people agree that these trials are all fake. I agree with them too. All these accusing and witnesses are merely doing this because they can, or because they are trying to scare you. This poll clearly showed that people kept their heads on (no pun intended) through the panic of the moment. In fact, many still think of most the accused are good christian people. The arrest and execution of Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor pumped up the number of people who doubted the theories of witchcraft in Salem. For example, Reverend Hale realized the dishonesty of Abigail Williams and her gang of impostors. He quit the bogus court and turned his own way to save the accused, even if his ways are strange. You see,

The Salem witch trials demonstrate the opposite approach to gaining land and power from those on the frontier. They began when several girls accused women of witchcraft to cover up their own crimes. As accusations and counter accusations flew, most of Salem was encircled in the mess. A court was convened, and sentenced 19 people to death, many of them for not confessing. But beneath the lessons about witch trials is another story about the struggles of those on the frontier. The accusers were predominantly from the western portion of Salem, Salem Village, and the accused were from the east. Salem Village was growing and seeking greater independence and power. Meanwhile, the population boom in New England and the fact that non landowning men could not vote lead to powerful incentives. Accusing someone to gain their land, and so wealth and status, would be sensible. The incentives at play for those on the frontier led to a series of actions that would seem perplexing, but were reasonable for those taking them. But the outsiders in society failed in this conflict too. There was little change in their status in society, and the accusers even lost social status, as was shown in the Crucible. Meanwhile, the accused and the relatives of the executed were compensated by the government. In the end, the Salem Witch Trials did not result in a victory for outsiders in society, but only in further elite consolidation of power.

The Salem Witch Trails were a dark period, where adults took the words of kids with no evidence over the accused. This time is one of the examples of America’s Red Scare; when many innocent lives were being taken one after another over the rumors of witchcraft. These structure of events put into a book named The Crucibles, written by an American playwright, an author in 1953 named Arthur Miller. He describes the trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1692-1693 period.

Have you ever had a finger pointed at you unfairly? If so, how would that feel? Despite being a country that has fairness and justice as core values, the United States has been and is currently a neutral witness to such events, which has caused irreparable damage. When these events have occurred in the U.S., the targets were usually a certain group of people who were highly feared in society. Targeting a group in this manner was known as a “witch hunt.” In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, he discusses how a small suspicion of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts during colonial times ultimately escalated to hysteria and destruction of innocent life. While the Salem Witch Trials were the most quintessential example of a “witch hunt”, similar instances sadly reappeared in different forms during the 20th century.