The witch crisis is famous for the legal proceedings and trials that ensued, whether because of fear or revenge. The trials themselves are comparable to the hearings during the Red Scare because the decisions from the trials were supposed to rid the community of danger, although they actually increased paranoia.

First Red Scare

1917 – 1920

Terms in this set (12) The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.

The Red Scare was basically just one huge breakout of mass hysteria. People became paranoid over the ideas of communism and espionage. Similarly to in the Crucible, many people were put on trial and convicted without proper evidence and were innocent.

Arthur Miller uses allegory in his play, The Crucible, to show the similarities between the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare. In the Salem witch trials, all substantial evidence is through out of the window, and everything that supports witchcraft is valid. Much is the same with the Red Scare court system.

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is an allegory for McCarthyism during the red scare due to the near parallel events that confide in the plot and history such the accused confessing to a crime they did not commit to save their life, people rising to power by taking advantage of others, anda accusations having merit with …

The Crucible is a tragedy in that it features a tragic hero whose fatal flaw of adultery results in his downfall, and who only repents his error after it is too late to alter his fate. In The Crucible, John Proctor is in most ways an upstanding character, honest and highly moral. …

For example, “Tragedy makes us aware of what the character might have been”; “Tragedy is the consequence of a man’s total compulsion to evaluate himself justly”; and later, in the “Preface” to the Collected Plays, you said, “The less capable a man is of walking away from the central conflict of a play, the closer he …

John Proctor

Abigail

In many cases, hysteria is triggered by an environmental incident — such as contamination of the water supply — that causes people to literally worry themselves sick over getting sick, even though they’re otherwise perfectly healthy.

How do you know there’s growing hysteria in Salem? Accusations are increasing. Why do you think Proc hesitates when Eliz tells him he must go to the court & tell the judges that Abigail is a fraud? He may still have feelings for Abigail & doesn’t want to see her in trouble.

Abigail Williams

How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! Proctor utters these lines at the end of the play, in Act IV, when he is wrestling with his conscience over whether to confess to witchcraft and thereby save himself from the gallows.

The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.

Abigail is a mean and vindictive people who make the wrong decisions, and hurts anyone to get what she wants; John Proctor. Her faults are quite obvious, she does deserve the blame for the outcome of the play. She really hope Elizabeth die, if Elizabeth died, she will be the only lover for John.

I believe that Reverend Parris does share some of the initial blame because he initially instigates the town’s legitimate fears of witchcraft. Abigail Williams tells Parris that there is rumor of witchcraft surrounding the girls and his sick daughter.

The Crucible John Proctor is a tormented individual. He believes his affair with Abigail irreparably damaged him in the eyes of God, his wife Elizabeth, and himself. True, Proctor did succumb to sin and commit adultery; however, he lacks the capacity to forgive himself.

After Parris’ dismissal from Salem Village he moved to Concord, Mass where he lived until 1705 and then moved to Dunstable where he preached for six months in 1711. Parris then moved to Sudbury, Mass where his daughter, Betty, lived until adulthood. Samuel Parris died in Sudbury on February 27, 1720.

Samuel Parris

Samuel Parris (1653 – February 27, 1720) was the Puritan minister in Salem Village, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials….Samuel Parris.

Reverend Parris played a key role in events during the witchcraft trials, not least of which were his weekly sermons warning of the Devil’s influence. He invited his predecessor Deodat Lawson to Salem to witness the behavior of the afflicted and the accused.

This sent panic throughout the Village of Salem and led to accusations of more than 200 local citizens over the next several months, including Dorothy “Dorcas” Good who was by far the youngest accused at age 4 (she spent eight months in the prison’s dungeon before being released) along with her mother, Sarah Good (who …

While prevalent world-wide, hot-spots of current witch-hunting are India, Papua New Guinea, Amazonia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. While an unknown problem in vast parts of the Western population, body-counts of modern witch-hunts by far exceed those of early-modern witch-hunting.

Today, witch trials occur all over the world. Organizations like the United Nations and Stepping Stones Nigeria have found that the number of witch trials around the world is increasing. They are almost always violent, and sometimes they are deadly.