comparing events in history to the cruible

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In this century there have been many catastrophes and bad ideas happen and they all occurred because the person behind the scenes wanted to have more power. Through the use of the Salem witch trials, Miller forces readers to deal with shameful episodes in 20th century history of the United States of America like McCarthyism, the Holocaust, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the Japanese American Interment. Many of these behaviors illustrated can relate to "The Crucible," most of these horrible things that happened occurred because people wanted to have more power in their lives. The other bad part is that most of these events occurred in the United States.

In 1950 a republican senator from Wisconsin by the name of Joseph McCarthy started a rumor that the State Department employed 205 communists. After a while the number was dropped to 57. Still this raised a hysteria in America causing many Americans that there were spies working for the country. In the end of this investigation the rumor was proven false and no spies turned up. The word "McCarthyism is the unfairly accusing other of disloyalty and subversion." (DiBacco et all, R47) All this person did was just scare many Americans just like in the Salem Witch trials. I guess that was McCa

The Salem Witch Trials were a mistake and should have never happened since there was not enough evidence to prosecute the people that were named by the girls in the end of Act 1. The only reason why some were named was because certain girls didn't like that person and wanted them to die. This goes for Abigail the most, because she wants Elizabeth Proctor to be killed so she can have John. When people were walking to the gallows to be hanged they were sad because they were going to die and that they were innocent. Another reason why they were innocent was that they were reciting the "Our Father" a Christian prayer. If they possessed by the devil then there is no way that they would be able to say that prayer. The only reason why they were going to die was because they had integrity to not admit to witchcraft and that Danforth just wanted to amuse the village. Also with Giles Cory he had integrity because he died a painful death of stoning and that he never said any names because he knew that no one else did witchcraft.

"The Crucible" is based on witch trials but it is also based on the obsession for power by two men. Those men are Parris Williams and Deputy Governor Danforth. In the book Danforth wanted to have more power and Parris went along with him. Those two based the trials on the theocracy that the town was based on. It basically means that they constructed the trial with god and if the people loved god then they would confess to their alliance with Lucifer and if they didn't then they would die.

Another blemish in America's life is The Japanese American Interment. This was when many Japanese immigrants were rounded up and relocated. The main reason why they were rounded up was because the government feared that they were spies and saboteurs. Although the evidence is sparse the government didn't care what others thought and so in "February of 1942 Franklin Roosevelt had about 110,000 Japanese Americans rounded up and brought to concentration camps." (DiBacco et all, 612) At this time most of the Japanese Americans lived on the West Coast and they were sent to camps in Colorado and Arizona. They were held in captivity until the end of the war with Japan. Some of the men in the concentration camps were drafted into the military. This relates to "The Crucible" in the way that anybody who was of Japanese origin was rounded up and in "The Crucible" anyone wh

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