White Witch Vs Adolf Hitler

The Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust are very similar and in many ways. During both of the terrible happenings, there were a lot of murders over nonsense. Innocent people were accused, disliked, mistreated, and killed.

There’s always a danger that the Witch trials will repeat itself again.(Patrick)  However, it’s not as common and severe as it was in 1692. An example would be Hitler and the Nazi Party, who used fear to lead their people during the holocaust. They had no choice but to comply.(Fear) Fear can cause violent behavior; it can change the way people think and the way they live. Hitler killed millions of people to show the others what he is capable of. Hitler was ruthless, he didn’t care about anyone else’s feelings or thoughts; if you were a jew, you were to be killed or sent to concentration camps. The way Hitler used his power relates to the Salem Witch trials.

The evidence of witchcraft and related works has been around for many centuries. Gradually, though, a mixture a religious, economical, and political reasons instigated different periods of fear and uncertainty among society. Witchcraft was thought of as a connection to the devil that made the victim do evil and strange deeds. (Sutter par. 1) In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and twentieth century, the hysteria over certain causes resulted in prosecution in the Salem Witch Trials, European Witchcraft Craze, and the McCarthy hearings. These three events all used uncertain and unjustly accusations to attack the accused.

Does the Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust Have Things in Common? During both of these times mass numbers of people were being killed and driven by fear in their own society. This fear became mass hysteria. Mass hysteria occurred in 1692 in the town of Salem and again “between 1933 and 1945, [when] more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust” (Lehnardt 1).

During both the devastating Holocaust in the Germany and the tragic Salem Witch Trials in the small town of Salem, innocent people were brutally killed, causing hysteria among the people. Both groups of people endured hardships because of the hysteria that occurred among them. This hysteria caused people to react in ways that they would not usually act. Both of these events are very historical and help The United States of America be a unified and prosperous country that it has grown to become today. Hysteria is defined as an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping

Like most do not actually know how the holocaust and the witches are actually alike. Both of these events lead to the killing of innocent people.

Peoples fear of witched caused them to act strange in many ways. Some people accused them to be a witch if they didn’t even like them. For example some people have neighbors and if their bread burned they blame their neighbor. As stated in document C there were two

The Holocaust vs the Salem Witch Trials, what do they have in common? The salem witch trials took place in the 1692 between a group of girls.

The play and the Holocaust exhibit how people overreact to situations they do not understand. For example, in the play when Proctor asked why Mary had to go to court Elizabeth responded with “there be fourteen people in the jail now… and they’ll be tried, and the court [has the] power to hang them too” (Miller 1269). In a matter of days rumors of witchcraft and accusations turned into several people in jail that could hang any day. Salem did not stop to think about the consequences if they start to kill people. In another case, during Hitler’s rise to power he wanted to get rid of all Jews because they “were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History Channel). Hitler used propaganda to get people to follow him in his plot to get rid of all Jews because he thought they were a threat to his idea of a perfect race. He shoved them into

Looking at the two historical events, we can see that hysteria was ever-present at the times in which they occurred. It is evident that this hysteria ruined the lives of many people, due to the constant accusations of witches and communists. The events that led up to the Salem witch trails and McCarthyism was also similar. Both events were irrational fears that witchcraft and communism were going to change the face of society if drastic measures were not taken. People were involved in persecution in both time framed.

Throughout history, many horrific incidents based on an act of violence or disagreement have resulted in panic and mass hysteria. These historical events include but are not limited to, The Holocaust, mass shootings, and 9/11. Many of these tragic events have led to people being immensely afraid. These events often create fear for those who participate in everyday activities. A healthy community consists of a support system, peace, trust, and adhering to societal laws. Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, illustrates parallels between the Salem 17th century witch trials and the Communist Red Scare in the 1950’s to exemplify how destructive irrational fear and mass hysteria can become. When a community is overcome with fear it creates an insalubrious system of mistrust, corruption, hypocrisy, and the defiance of laws. Conflict relating to witchcraft in The Crucible, led to tension and struggle for the people of Salem. In his allegory, Arthur Miller illustrates the devastating impact of irrational fear on a community through the actions of the characters of Abigail Williams, Judge Danforth and Judge Hathorne.

The punishment of the witches of human beings indicates that they have the supernatural power to control nature. The revenge stirs up the witches to enforce their power over nature that

There is a clear conflict between good and evil, and this makes the audience feel uneasy. The witches symbolise the force of evil and establish the atmosphere of

In the book The Crucible there are many points throughout that contain fear and show the fear that actually went on in that time period. When the women start getting blamed for all the witchcraft the men all start to fear that they will lose their wives. So the men all go down to the court to try and save them, but instead they all get

Fear is definitely not always a harmful emotion. Fear influences people to take extreme measures and act irrationally emotion. While fear is one of the main emotions people face, fear is not a always harmful emotion. In the Crucible, Arthur Miller shows us how fear and suspicion can destroy a community. As the play develops, Miller shows us how fear and suspicion increase and destroy the community. Throughout the play it becomes apparent that the community gets more and more divided as time goes on. In the beginning there were arguments about ownership of land between some of the villagers. As the story progresses people fear for their own safety and begin accusing their neighbours of witchcraft in order to escape being hanged. Salem became overrun by the hysteria of witchcraft. Mere suspicion itself was accepted as evidence. As a Satan-fearing community, they could not think of denying the evidence, because to deny the existence of evil was to deny the existence of goodness; which was God. In the 17th century a group of Puritans migrated from England to America - the land of dreams - to escape persecution for their religious beliefs. As Arthur Miller tells us in the introduction to Act 1 'no one can really know what their lives were like.' We would never be able to imagine a life with 'no novelists' and 'their creed forbade anything resembling a theatre or vain entertainment.' 'They didn't celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate