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    The power grew in 1692 at the Start of the Salem Witch Trials. The power of the girls as an officials of the court of Salem. Throughout this plot complication, the abuse of the girls was heading to worst conflicts for the town. Arthur Miller’s play named “The Crucible” is based on the Witch Trials in the late 1600’s in the state of Massachusetts. As power started to grow, problems as well. In Act 2, we see how the characters are changing and what they're capable of. During this act, we’ve realized

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    trust between the common people and the police, as the officers can easily plant fake evidence on people they do not like. This is easily comparable to the Salem Witch Trials or The Crucible and the HUAC McCarthyism Red Scare of the 1950s. This is due to how The Crucible is written as an allegory for the Red Scare and how both The Crucible and the “stop and frisk” method are abused for personal gain. The HUAC is also known as the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was founded in 1938 by the

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    Salem Witch Trials - a time where the people of Salem were controlled by Christianity, but their God was nowhere to be found during their suffering and immense fear. Many pieces of literature often try to portray the chaos and seemingly godless times that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, but the most notable piece of literature surrounding the trials is Arthur Miller’s drama, The Crucible. Miller’s characters are all based on people who were actually a part of the Salem Witch Trials and

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    Salem Witch Trials 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

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    children inside. They are throwing accusations everywhere. I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it for myself. Even children are accused of doing witchcraft. I met a teenage named Abigail Hobbs. She looks innocent, but she admitted that she was a witch. She said she had seen the Devil. This started when the little girls went ill and felt uncanny pains and sensations they had never experienced before. One of them accused a slave called Tituba. Tituba admitted to witchcraft and accused five other people

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    Arthur miller bases the play on the historical account of the salem witch trials.Miller creates an atmosphere and mood within the play recreating the historical period of puritan culture.The puritans demonstrated their faithfulness, honesty and integrity of physical labor. The puritans did not tolerate inappropriate behavior. Those with inappropriate behavior were punished publicly and severely if needed.Miller’s exploration of human psyche and behavior makes the play an interesting masterpiece.

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    before the trials and the false claims occurred. About one hundred and forty one people were arrested, nineteen people were also hanged and one was crushed because heavy stones were put on his chest which broke his ribs, piercing his heart and lungs. They would either lay there with the stones on top of them until they confessed they were a witch or lied to them just to get the stones off them or they would let the stones crush them, having the people not knowing if the person was a witch or not. Trials

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    Running Head: THE CREATION OF “THE CRUCIBLE” The Creation Of "The Crucible" And Similarities Between The Salem Witch Trials And Communism Era Kyle Brown Kankakee Valley High School The Creation Of "The Crucible" And Similarities Between The Salem Witch Trials And Communism Era Kyle Brown Kankakee Valley High School Introduction Once “The Crucible” was released in 1953, there was a huge uproar because the concept behind the Salem witch trial was so similar to what was going with communism

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    The 1996 film The Crucible is a fictional account of the Salem witch trials. While there are many historical inaccuracies in the movie, it does capture some of the themes in scholarship on the period. The film presents the town of Salem in a similar way to how it is depicted in the textbook. The film gets the basic outline of the Salem witch trials right. A group of girls started a panic by accusing an enslaved woman and two other women of bewitching them. During the event more than 200 people were

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    communists; while Arthur Miller himself was accused of being a communist. Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism The central idea of The Crucible the power of suggestion and how we self-deceive ourselves due to others opinions. Arthur Miller wants to explain that history truly does repeat itself by giving off many clues and examples in his play, how similar the Red Scare was to the Salem witch trials. Salem Witch Trials: The witch trials were a series of hearings, and prosecutions of people being accused of witchcraft

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