The Salem Witch Trials Revealed In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The Salem Witch Trials, which took place between February 1692 to May 1693 in Colonial Massachusetts, was a series of trials and prosecutions of many innocent lower class and upper class men and women being accused of practicing “witchcraft.” These prosecutions resulted in the death of twenty people, 19 hung, and 1 pressed to death. In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, he focuses on the atmosphere of the individuals that were falsely accused of witchcraft; moreover, he gives his audience the mindset of the people who accused. The Crucible’s setting has taken place in Salem, Massachusetts during the well-known Salem Witch Trials; the book starts off by giving the reader a background of events that caused the Salem Witch Trials. In the

Relating to the accusations in The Crucible, Muslim are also blamed for causing terrorism. “Parallel to the growth of the number of Muslim Americans, Islamophobia has been increasing.3 Muslims have been harassed on college campuses, mosques have been vandalized and defaced, Muslim charities have had their assets frozen, and racial profiling has occurred at airports and on the streets” (Samari 1920). In this source the author, Samari, states that many Muslims around the United States are looked down on and called names. Moreover, she states that some Muslims are discriminated and called racial slurs when they go out to have fun, “racial profiling has occurred at airports and on the streets,”; bigotry in America has gone so far that people who follow Islam cannot travel and walk around in public in peace. For example, some Muslim individuals who travel on an airplane from one place to the other are sometimes pulled aside during their travel for an in depth inquiry; the subtly racist inquiring occurs because of their religious background and the type of people Muslims are depicted as in today's society. This relates to The Crucible because in the book many of the innocent individuals are accused of witchcraft, even though none of the people, excluding Abigail, participated in

For example, in The Crucible mostly everyone who was blamed and accused of practicing witchcraft was arrested, but later on when the truth came out of the witchcraft incident everyone who was arrested and prosecuted were found to be innocent. The author, Arthur Miller, tries to give a message to society that you should not judge someone or jump to conclusions. This connects to Islamophobes relevance in today's society; American’s accuse Muslim of being part of a religion that teaches terrorism. Some of the extremist caucasian community of the United States show racial attitude toward Muslim people, because they believe Muslims are people who go around the world “terrorizing” every nation. “In a poll taken directly after 9/11, 60% of Americans reported unfavorable attitudes toward Muslims” (Samari 1921). This quote connects back to Americans showing racial attitude towards the Muslim community of the United States. All this connects back to The Crucible, because in a way some innocent Muslims are being accused of practicing “terrorism” just as the people trialed during the Salem Witch Trials were accused and prosecuted for practicing