Examples Of The Salem Witch Hunt In The Crucible

Whether or Not “Witch-Hunts” Were Justifiable

From 1692-1693, the Salem Witch Trials led to a major controversy over whether or not the “witch-hunts” taking place were justifiable. Arthur Miller, the writer of the play The Crucible, created this masterpiece in 1953 to portray the events of the Salem witch trials which took place in Massachusetts. In the play, there is a group of girls that get caught by the town’s minister for dancing in the forest, where they are eventually blamed for witchcraft. Throughout The Crucible, Miller makes a statement about how witch-hunts took place in puritan society by showing the beliefs the people of this time had towards witches. During the Salem Witch Trials, a person “is either with this court or he must

An example of witch-hunts happening in history is when the Japanese were targeted in the US after Pearl Harbor took place. The argument of witch-craft never being necessary is proven when it is said that “despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land” (Japanese-American Internment 2015). Although after Pearl Harbor most people of Japanese descent did nothing wrong, they were all imprisoned from the fear of them attacking American again. Another example that arouse from the Holocaust is when Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian writer and Nazi hunter, stated that "for evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing." This quote shows that in order for evil to be created, all it takes is for men to not do the right thing in the first place. This gives a first-hand perspective from a man that went through witch-hunts in his life, and stated what could happen in order for it to not

For a modern day example such as gun control, it has been said that it is “not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem” (Barr). This quote shows that the issue is not because of the guns itself, but the people that are in control of the guns. This example also relates back to the time of the Salem Witch Trials because it was the people that were in control of who was convicted and who was not. This was proven from the accusation Abigail made in order the get the spotlight off of herself. A modern example of targeting a specific group of people to achieve justice in society is the diversity against the overweight. When most people think of America, especially when not originally from America, they associate it with obesity. Obesity causes “fat-shaming” by others, as well as public health arguments. These specific type of people, although in this case their condition is controllable, should not be targeted or treated any differently from other