Witch Hunt: A web Scavenger Hunt
1) As the accused I feel that I wasn't given a true trail. Because my life was on the line I wasn't think completely rational so the thought of throwing someone else under the wagon wasn't to hard to accept. It was scary to have so many questions thrown at me having to answer with out much time to think.
2) The main difference between the historical witch trails and the Crucible is that the Crucible is written mainly form the imagination of Miller and the historical witch trails were based on facts. Miller changed things in the story to keep the reader interested. I believe that the fact that Miller changed the most was that Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor and Martha Corey were not hung on the same day. By making them be hung on the same day it takes away from the story. Some of the minor things that Miller changed was the fact that he changed their ages and Ruth's name was Ann like her mother.
3) I think Caporael's theories are interesting points. The fact that so many people were killed because of a sickness is disturbing and intriguing. To think that so many people believe or fell for the same thing at the same time and that they killed over it is very interesting. It was like a big magic trick that whole towns fell for. Some of the other forces that could have been at work is a fear and an imagination mix. The people were afraid of being accused of witch craft so they accused others and made up these detailed stories just to save face.
4) Some similarities between Miller's description of McCarthyism and the Salem witch trails is the fact that people were being judged or punished for being them because other didn't understand it. McCarthyism targeted Jews, Catholics, homosexuality and many others simply because they were new and different and not known about. The Salem witch trails targeted women that had different lives styles then the other women or 'normal' women. In both cases the people were scared to get close enough to see that these people were being judged or punished for being different. I believe Miller's article hits on some important points, points that if people could have taken the time to look at before then things would have turned out different.
5) The Salem witch trail and the Red scare are in some what very similar on accusing someone for what they say or do anything that makes another person mad or feel disrespected. Some similarities of these two events are have a trail on something that would be outrageous and having a group of people for what they are or seeing whats going on in that time period as the same state of matter. The difference between these events are they are in different time periods and people are not hanging fro false accusations.
6) Some similarities between the Holocaust, Human rights Watch and Children of Japanese decent during WWII to the Salem witch trails is how a special group were being judged because they were different and their differences were seen as bad or dangerous. Some similarities between the Holocaust, Human rights Watch and Children of Japanese decent during WWII to the Red Scare are that people were judged for specking their minds and for living their life how they wanted to. They were seen as being wrong. A few differences were that during the Red scare people made up the 'bad' or 'wrong' actions. Where as in the Salem Witch Trails people saw things that other did different then others and made that something 'bad' or 'wrong'.
7) George Santayana's quote "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." means if people don't start looking closer at the consequences of the past they will keep happening and sooner or later we will ruin our world. Some ways we keep repeating history is how we still think that throwing money at things and get rid of it or we still judge people based off of differences that they may have. I think we learned a little bit from our past in the since that we don't jump into things in less we're are personally involved, normally.
8) Some other examples of 'witch hunts' in history was before the Salem witch trails about 350 years before in a New England colony in Hartford, Connecticut. Where a young girl of 8 got sick and was claimed to be possessed. After her death the women who was accused of possessing the young girl was 'possessed' and so began the 'Witch Hunt'.
9) The most interesting thing we found out was the fact that over half of the Japanese enclosed during WWII were children. i didn't realize that America was so cruel. I mean i know we've done some pretty bad things but the think that we caged that mean children is simply wrong. Those kids had to be scared and damaged by the event.
2) The main difference between the historical witch trails and the Crucible is that the Crucible is written mainly form the imagination of Miller and the historical witch trails were based on facts. Miller changed things in the story to keep the reader interested. I believe that the fact that Miller changed the most was that Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor and Martha Corey were not hung on the same day. By making them be hung on the same day it takes away from the story. Some of the minor things that Miller changed was the fact that he changed their ages and Ruth's name was Ann like her mother.
3) I think Caporael's theories are interesting points. The fact that so many people were killed because of a sickness is disturbing and intriguing. To think that so many people believe or fell for the same thing at the same time and that they killed over it is very interesting. It was like a big magic trick that whole towns fell for. Some of the other forces that could have been at work is a fear and an imagination mix. The people were afraid of being accused of witch craft so they accused others and made up these detailed stories just to save face.
4) Some similarities between Miller's description of McCarthyism and the Salem witch trails is the fact that people were being judged or punished for being them because other didn't understand it. McCarthyism targeted Jews, Catholics, homosexuality and many others simply because they were new and different and not known about. The Salem witch trails targeted women that had different lives styles then the other women or 'normal' women. In both cases the people were scared to get close enough to see that these people were being judged or punished for being different. I believe Miller's article hits on some important points, points that if people could have taken the time to look at before then things would have turned out different.
5) The Salem witch trail and the Red scare are in some what very similar on accusing someone for what they say or do anything that makes another person mad or feel disrespected. Some similarities of these two events are have a trail on something that would be outrageous and having a group of people for what they are or seeing whats going on in that time period as the same state of matter. The difference between these events are they are in different time periods and people are not hanging fro false accusations.
6) Some similarities between the Holocaust, Human rights Watch and Children of Japanese decent during WWII to the Salem witch trails is how a special group were being judged because they were different and their differences were seen as bad or dangerous. Some similarities between the Holocaust, Human rights Watch and Children of Japanese decent during WWII to the Red Scare are that people were judged for specking their minds and for living their life how they wanted to. They were seen as being wrong. A few differences were that during the Red scare people made up the 'bad' or 'wrong' actions. Where as in the Salem Witch Trails people saw things that other did different then others and made that something 'bad' or 'wrong'.
7) George Santayana's quote "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." means if people don't start looking closer at the consequences of the past they will keep happening and sooner or later we will ruin our world. Some ways we keep repeating history is how we still think that throwing money at things and get rid of it or we still judge people based off of differences that they may have. I think we learned a little bit from our past in the since that we don't jump into things in less we're are personally involved, normally.
8) Some other examples of 'witch hunts' in history was before the Salem witch trails about 350 years before in a New England colony in Hartford, Connecticut. Where a young girl of 8 got sick and was claimed to be possessed. After her death the women who was accused of possessing the young girl was 'possessed' and so began the 'Witch Hunt'.
9) The most interesting thing we found out was the fact that over half of the Japanese enclosed during WWII were children. i didn't realize that America was so cruel. I mean i know we've done some pretty bad things but the think that we caged that mean children is simply wrong. Those kids had to be scared and damaged by the event.
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