Salem Witch Trials Web quest
1) As an accused Witch, my feelings progresses from one of despair, hope, than despair again. While imprisoned, I felt betrayed. Betrayed by my fellow citizens who made up stories of what my specter, not even me, did. However, I felt hopeful of my future when my son came in with a petition with 40 signatures. The judge acquitted me of being a witch; however, I was put back on trial after some witches in the crowd went crazy with the verdict. That's when my feeling of despair began. After being proved innocent, I was now going to die for something I didn't even know I did.
2) The main difference between the two is that the Crucible contorts some truthful events into entertaining events for the audience. The Crucible is not entirely a historic representation of what actually occurred in Salem and some creative license was used by Miller. Miller took the most freedom by trying to make the witch craft trials an allegory. By doing so, he ignored some of the facts such as that the clergy, Rev. Hale would not have signed death warrants; that job belonged to the judge.
3) I think that Caporael's theory that the first "witches" in Salem had ergot poisoning could be a valid argument. All of the facts that she provided seem to fit the conditions of Salem at that time. I believe that the ergot poisoning may have affected the first two girls of the time period and mass hysteria ensued.
4) Both McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials centered around two main ideas: conviction without evidence and turning in fellow communists or witches. My response to Miller's article is that I agree that there is a similarity between the two. Both had an element of public hysteria where convictions were made based on no actual evidence or evidence that has been misconstrued.
5) The Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare were similar in many ways. First, both arose out of public hysteria; one in the case of witchcraft, the other in the case of communism. Both also resulted in the death or career death of innocent people who were convicted by little to no real evidence. The two differed in that the Salem Witch trial resulted in deaths while the Red Scare mostly resulted in public shaming and career loss with only a few deaths.
6) The Witch Craft Trials relate to the Holocaust, the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the Red Scare in the way that all of these events involved public hysteria. Whether completely agreeing or not, the public's actions allowed for a minority to impose a rule that threatened the lives of innocent people. There are differences between each of them, however. The holocaust was a systematic killing of a people while internment camps were designed to house Japanese-Americans during the war in order to ease societies expectations of an attack or infiltration. The article I read on Human Rights Watch only dealt with a group of people in Cambodia illegally living on private land and the police's response. The police did not attack the people because of their race or political beliefs; they attacked them because they were committing a crime.
7) The quote "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" means that if we do not learn from our past mistakes, we will inevitably make those same mistakes in the future. We can learn from history by understanding what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again in the future.
8) Other examples of witch hunts would be the Spanish Inquisition, and other witch trials in early modern Europe such as the Fulda witch trials, Trier witch trials, and the Basque witch trials. All of these trials involved mass hysteria and panic to convict people without any evidence.
9) The most interesting thing I learned was that there are many similarities to the witch trials throughout history; and despite seeing these events unfold, we continue to pursue inquisitions without tangible evidence. We quickly jump to conclusions and put people on trial before we wait for the facts and evidence.
5) The Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare were similar in many ways. First, both arose out of public hysteria; one in the case of witchcraft, the other in the case of communism. Both also resulted in the death or career death of innocent people who were convicted by little to no real evidence. The two differed in that the Salem Witch trial resulted in deaths while the Red Scare mostly resulted in public shaming and career loss with only a few deaths.
6) The Witch Craft Trials relate to the Holocaust, the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the Red Scare in the way that all of these events involved public hysteria. Whether completely agreeing or not, the public's actions allowed for a minority to impose a rule that threatened the lives of innocent people. There are differences between each of them, however. The holocaust was a systematic killing of a people while internment camps were designed to house Japanese-Americans during the war in order to ease societies expectations of an attack or infiltration. The article I read on Human Rights Watch only dealt with a group of people in Cambodia illegally living on private land and the police's response. The police did not attack the people because of their race or political beliefs; they attacked them because they were committing a crime.
7) The quote "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" means that if we do not learn from our past mistakes, we will inevitably make those same mistakes in the future. We can learn from history by understanding what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again in the future.
8) Other examples of witch hunts would be the Spanish Inquisition, and other witch trials in early modern Europe such as the Fulda witch trials, Trier witch trials, and the Basque witch trials. All of these trials involved mass hysteria and panic to convict people without any evidence.
9) The most interesting thing I learned was that there are many similarities to the witch trials throughout history; and despite seeing these events unfold, we continue to pursue inquisitions without tangible evidence. We quickly jump to conclusions and put people on trial before we wait for the facts and evidence.
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