Crucible Witch Hunts

Putnam is a dominant man at the beginning of The Crucible, but he still has a hunger to gain more power. Arthur Miller describes Mr. Putnam as a well-to-do, hard-handed landowner. Before his daughter gave him an advantage over people. He used people’s fear against them saying “Don’t you understand it, sir? There is a murdering witch among us, bound to keep herself in dark. Let your enemies make of it what they will, you cannot blink it more” (Miller 15). Putnam was a genius to use Parris fear of a faction forming against him to get his way. He tries to gain other people's land because the more land you have, the more influence you have. Putnam gets mad when he finds out that “[the land his grandfather] gave him in his will,” was owned by Francis Nurse and was sold to Proctor, “In your bounds! I bought that tract from Goody Nurse’s husband five months ago” (Miller 30). This proves how much land and power means to people in the 1690s. Later Mr. Putnam is finally questioned about his true intention of getting rid of the

If it were not because of the self-preserving and greedy nature, also the paranoia of the people in Salem, the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 would most likely not have occurred. One of those people is Reverend Parris, who is the minister of the church in The Crucible. All Reverend Parris cares about is his reputation/good name and the amount of wealth he has. He is paranoid that there is a faction of townspeople that are trying to get him thrown out of his position. Because of his need to preserve his good name he goes along with the false proceedings of the witch trials. In the end he starts to doubt the trials for the same reason. He also suppresses evidence that would have discredited the court, but

The play “The Crucible” demonstrates great themes of spite from many different characters. In a time of such chaos, these vengeful decisions led to many persecutions during the time of the witch trials. For example, Ann Putnam was jealous of Rebecca Nurse, because she had so many kids. This envy turns vengeful, and Ann accused Rebecca of witchcraft.The court believed this accusation because Rebecca delivered her babies,and only one of them survived. Rebecca could not have actually had anything to do with the death of her babies, of course. Francis Nurse in Proctor’s home says to Reverend Hale, “My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church, Mr. Hale...For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam’s babies” (Miller 174). Ann

Putnam is a dominant man at the beginning of The Crucible, but he still has a hunger to gain more power. Arthur Miller describes Mr. Putnam as a well-to-do, hard-handed landowner. Before his daughter gave him advantage over people, he used people’s fear against them. Putnam says, “Don’t you understand it, sir? There is a murdering witch among us, bound to keep herself in dark. Let your enemies make of it what they will, you cannot blink it more” (Miller 15). Putnam was a genius to used Parris fear of a faction forming against him to get his way. He tries to gain other people's land because the more land you have the more influence you have. Putnam gets mad when he finds out that the land his grandfather “gave him in his will,” was owned by Francis Nurse and was sold to Proctor, “In your bounds! I bought that tract from Goody Nurse’s husband five months ago” (Miller 30). This proves how much land and power means to people in 1690s. Later Mr. Putnam is finally questioned about his true intention of getting rid of the witches in Salem. Judge Danforth says, “Mr. Putnam, I have here an accusation by Mr. Corey against you. He states that you coldly prompted your daughter to cry witchery upon George Jacobs that is now in jail” (Miller 89). Putnam uses every advantage he has over anyone to get what he wants, which is this case he uses his daughter to accused landowners of witchcraft so when their land goes on sale for cheap he can have bought it.

In the play the crucible miller writes about these girls and how they are in the woods dancing and summoning the devil, but they also somewhat commit witchcraft but once they got caught in the woods and committing witchcraft they blame it on other innocent people saying that they were the one's who were committing witchcraft. That same day in court when the people who were blamed for committing witchcraft were trying to tell the court that it wasn't them and they would never do that the court didn't believe them so they hung each and everyone of them that were blamed for it. This relates to our modern day because it's kinda happening now were the law is believing children over the adults because they think that the children is always right,

Mary’s inability to faint on command for the members of the court was because she tries to make a point that witch accusers are not in fact what they seem. She tells the judge that “HATHORNE: And yet, when people accused of witchery confronted you in court, you would faint, saying their spirits came out of their bodies and choked you, (Miller 106).” “MARY: That were pretense, sir.” (Miller 106) based off this she tries to persuade the judge that the girls got carried away and just don’t want to get into trouble from the dramatic scene where they were dancing in the woods and doing other demonic things. The judges get into the mix of this and claim to have seen her faint before, “PARRIS: Why not? Now there are no spirits attacking you, for

Oppression, Bloodshed, Sin. People search and destroy things that are considered oddities. What really is an unusual circumstance? Loving someone who is the same gender? People who are born in the wrong body? As a society people have chosen religion over common sense, since time has started turning its devious hands. Whether the the ‘devil lives’ among them, or slaughtering homosexuals for finding love in unconventional ways. When people are misunderstood, others react harshly; we can see this colorfully portrayed in both the Crucible by Arthur Miller, and the LGBT+ community.

The “disenchantment of the world” marks something of a significant of moment in history. A time when the disbelief in witches grew to the size where it ended the persecution and execution of witches. Leaving behind an age of the supernatural and giving wake to the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment was a time of great scientific strides for mankind. Is it a coincidence that this also happens to be the time in which we see a significant decline in the witch-hunting? As the beliefs surrounding magic and the supernatural begin their shift more towards skepticism it is worth noting some of the other factors that are believed to have come into play when talking about the decline in witchcraft persecutions. However, without substantial proof of how these other factors played a direct role on the decline of witch prosecutions it seems as though the only thing we know for certain is that the enlightenment played its part in changing the mindset of a great number people and helped to bring an end to the number of witches brought to execution.

Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Christianity, and tea, all those things are closely related to Scotland and England. However, like all the other things in the world, England and Scotland are not perfect nor ideal. They also have their own dark and bloody history, and one of the most important part of that history is the origin of witch-hunt, or in other words, the execution of witches. Witchcraft was treated as the craft of wise at the very beginning. Then, as the witchcraft grew stronger, the conflict between the Christian religion and witchcraft finally lead to the bloody witch-hunt; but witch-hunt is not as simple as a conflict between two beliefs, in fact, the cause behind witch-hunt is the characteristic inside us. Witch-hunt represents not only the fear of witchcraft itself, but also the fear of the unknown and the instability.

In this video it states that Switzerland conducted witch hunts. They persecuted presumed withes longer than any other country in Europe. It also executed the most people for the crime of witch craft. Additionally, between the 15th and 17th century, an estimated 3 ½ thousand people mainly women was put to death. Presumed witches was locked up and tortured in a castle before they were executed, mostly burn at the stake. People believed that witches made deals with the devil to gain their special powers. Many believed that they didn’t act alone, the served the devil in covens. People had wild imaginations of what happened a witch sabot. Many believed that children were eaten, unnatural sexual acts were

In the beginning of the story they find the children out in the woods dancing which scares two of them causing them to faint. this is later admitted as them conjuring spirits. The ringleader of the group and also Reverend Parris's niece Abigail accuses the servant Tituba of witchcraft. This causes a stir in the town as this was a very strict puritan village they call in a respected reverend by the name of Mr. Hale to identify if there really are witches in Salem. When it is confirmed that witches are in salem a group of people including Judge Hathorne and the Deputy Governor Judge Danforth make a court and start condemning people they had two options confess and live or keep quiet and be hanged. Abigail and the group of girls accused anyone

The issue of witch-hunts was more visible in countries such France, who had a total of 10,000+ people accused and executed, but less in more stable countries such as Italy. Critics such as Levack and Thurston have a general belief that religious change may have exacerbated the witch-hunt but not are a direct cause.

Throughout the play, persecution was an outcome of greed. Thomas Putnam a wealthy man is extremely caught up in wanting more land. He wants George Jacobs land so bad he’s starting to blame innocent people of witchcraft so he can take over Jacobs 600 acres. Putnam had his daughter accuse Jacobs of sending his spirits out on her. This led to persecution by George Jacobs being hanged and Putnam ended up getting the forfeited 600 acres. This is clear when Giles Corey said, “if Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeits up his property- that’s law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece” (Miller 186). Putnam wanted Jacob dead so he can have his land. Another character that falls into the theme greed, is Abagail. Abagail uses greed to pursue john after he called off the affair because Abagail wants Elizabeth dead so she can have john all

The whole group stood at the counter just looked at Maggie, none of them following her. Sam and Dean were shocked to hear their father’s name come out of her mouth. John had been a pretty well-known hunter, mostly because of his hunt for the yellow-eyed demon all those years. They all thought he was nuts. Still, it was always weird when their father was mentioned. Especially from someone who wasn’t a hunter.

Due to recent and past terrorist events Muslims have all been harassed and stereotyped because of a small group of Islamic extremist. The Muslim community all over the world has suffered greatly from this. Including in the United States of America, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump put in an executive order a “Muslim ban” because of a large amount of Syrian refugees emigrating from their homeland trying to escape the very same people the people of the United States fear. But they are not being accepted into the country because they could potentially be part of a terrorist organization, this could all be portrayed as a modern day witch hunt.