...In the movie War Witch, Komona conducts her own Sankofa which means go back and get it. The director re humanizes Komona with the concept of going back and providing her parents with a ceremonial burial by allowing her parents to hunt her until she went back to their village to bury them . Throughout the whole movie her parents keep watch over her by sending different ghost to watch over and warn her of life threating trouble in her life. When she got to a point in her life when she was no longer threaten, her parents appeared to her in what I received as “ We have took care of you these years , so now it is time for you to take care of us by going back home and giving us a proper burial. It was very painful for Komona to go back home for...
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...Although some argue that the Salem witch trials were a result of hysteria, the accusations were primarily caused by gender and class tensions, Puritan world views, and the Indian Wars. These causes are explored in the texts “The Historiography of Salem Witch Trials”, “Witchcraft”, “Puritan Beliefs and the Salem Witchcraft Trials”, but most importantly in Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible”. “The Crucible” deals with women and young girls in 17th Century Salem, MA. These women were being accused of practicing witchcraft and dealing with the devil. The gender and class tensions along with Puritan world views combined to create this hysteria that led to these women going to trial, found guilty, and sentenced to public hanging. The Indian Wars were not the main focus in “The Crucible” because it was also meant to be a commentary on the McCarthy trials in the 1950s during the Cold War. Gender tensions contributed to to the accusations of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, as demonstrated in the film “The Crucible”. One example of this was the scene in (“The Crucible”) where the girls ask Tituba to help them get a husband with casting spells. There were many fears among the adolescent girls and that...
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...The movie Howl’s Moving Castle was a movie about a young woman cursed by witch and now is old. She begins her journey to look for her sister but comes upon a castle… Not a normal castle… A moving one to be exact. No one actually excepted Howl which was the demon guy, that’s why he had a cloak to hide the castle he lived in. This story included several types of themes including war, love and etc. The theme of war means that people are about to fight because the prince was kidnapped. A young woman named Sophie and a Witch formerly known as The Wicked Witch of the Waste had a love connection with a demon named Howl. A love connection theme is when there is a romantic telling that’s going on in a story for example The Howl and...
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...I think that the United states has definitely evolved much further than to go on actual witch hunts in this day in age but similar things still occur. Society definitely engages in witch hunts in this day in age. There are so many ways that people are targeted that maybe even you can’t see the correlation. We have turned to other distractions to distract from certain economic issues. We have always blamed our problems on something that takes people's minds off of the real problems. The overweight, liberal media, and the democratic muslim bans are just some of the ways witch hunts are occurring today. The first example that society is engaging in witch hunts today is liberal media. People blaming journalists and news reporters saying that they...
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...Historically, witch-hunts are known as an unfair judgement against innocent people derived from fear. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller talks about the Salem witch trials, writing an allegory that references the communists who were being persecuted during the red scare. In fact, witch-hunts can still be compared to events that occur in modern day’s American society. With this in mind it is important to point out racial profiling, which has been increasing lately. It is known as the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether an individual is considered likely to commit an illegal act, leading to the unfair targeting of its victims. Arthur Miller profits from Salem’s history to address a higher concept, the McCarthyism,...
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...McCarthyism was the government. McCarthy's point of this was to get all of the communists out of America. Because the Senator of Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy was powerful and the Cold War was in full effect, McCarthyism changed many people's lives. One cause of why people changed their lives was how powerful McCarthy was. According to the author of History.com, “Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing ‘loyalty risks’ in the...
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...In this book Mary Beth Norton began to examine Salem witchcraft based upon the role of feminism, the culture of New England, and the way in which war worked with the concept of witchcraft to create a vulnerable society. She uses a historical approach to examine the interactions of Salem and draw her own conclusions on what had occurred. This is evident based on her close examination of society based upon New England’s interactions with Native Americans, including the makeup of Essex County compared to other parts of New England. During this time there was conflict in the Northeast including Maine. Norton argues these conflicts were a direct cause of the witch trials, claiming those involved in the trials were connected in some way to the Indian...
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...in mind most the idea of vigilantism is a glory now todays from movies, book, and most importantly Comic books about super heroes. But why do people resort to vigilantism? To avenge a crime as said early in the paragraph. This can lead to killing, lynching, and using the internet to get even. Taking the law into your own hand is as old as the justice system itself. A lot of the times the ideas of the people taking justice in to own hands tend to be glory by the media. But it can be very scare for example the red scare, witch hunts, and anonymous computer attacks. This can be seen now in comic books, Movie, ands books. This paper will be able to tell a Vigilante from a criminal. Which some of notable example of Vigilante are known are witch trial which are the cases that people are accused of being witch and then being killed, also another time of major vigilante was in the south when lynching black was a major issue for USA, and then during the cold war the red scare was a major attack on the USA way of life because the idea of the of being a communist was would have gotten you exiled or worst. Which lead to the rise of McCarthyism which was purely vigilante that was purely used for political gain and it vigilante as the main force. But then comic books came out which had hero who were above the law and dish out justice for the people who didn’t have any. Then now day there is a new type of vigilante attack on computer because a man with a keyboard now can do more damage...
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...“START HERE WITH A CREATIVE TOPIC FOR YOUR SPEECH” Topic: Salem Witch Trials Organization: Topically, Specific Purpose: For the audience to understand what happened before, during and after the Salem Witch Trials I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention getter: The biggest witch hunt in American history took place 322 years ago in Salem, Massachusetts where twenty innocent people were convicted and executed for practicing the Devil’s magic. B. Relevance: My immediate audience should care about my topic because it is informative about the biggest witch hunt in American history. It affects them by having the ability to go home having more knowledge about the Salem Witch Trials. They can relate to my topic by being aware of what happened in 1692. C. Credibility...
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...age. The beginning of the movie pans out to German bombers flying over London. The Pevensies are seen rushing to a bomb shelter in their backyard. World war two is a time of adversity in it’s own terms. The Pevensie’s are living during the London Blitz, when Germans would constantly bombard English cities. The children learn quickly through the misery of having to leave war-torn London that living there is a failure within itself and that they must live in the countryside of Scotland to be safe. The children's father is fighting as a foot soldier in the British army. Peter, the eldest brother immediately takes on the parental role of the family, alongside Susan, his sister after his mother remains in London. Already the children have to grow faster than normal circumstances, as they have to be strong and guide the two younger siblings. This sets the tone of for the film, as the children experience a loneliness, heartache and frustration and great adversity inside the world of Narnia. Almost all the characters experience adversity in a variety of ways. The Wardrobe represents a parallel universe, where Narnia is also in a war the same time that Earth is. The first tribulations of adversity are shown in Mr. Tumnus, when he attempts to abduct Lucy and bring her the White Witch. Tumnus lives under the rule of the White Witch, as there has been a winter for two hundred years. One of the White Witches laws...
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...Furthermore It was a purposeless ordeal that lead to the massacre of almost two-dozen people. In turn, it was neighbor against neighbor, brother against sister, mother against daughter, when fear struck the hearts of the kind community of Salem their sense of loyalty went out the window, and it was every man, or woman, for themselves “Jess Blumberg”. The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts during 1692. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for The Red Scare “Darwin Kim”. In both situations a society turned against itself in fear of something bigger than itself that they could not control. When there is something that a community can not comprehend, whether it be supposed magic or a form of government, there will be turmoil “Jess Blumberg”. Fear is a dominant force in this world. Throughout history it has killed civilians, hurt communities, and obliterated empires. In both The Salem Witch trials and the Red Scare it caused it caused people to turn against their neighbor and become self-destructive. The reason that Arthur Miller Wrote the crucible is because he wanted society to recognize the mistakes that it continues to make, and learn from them. It was a quintessential allegory in the...
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...claimed to be bewitched by some older women. These claims ignited a witch hunt that resulted in twenty women and two dogs lynched. The witch trials ended when the governor’s wife was accused. He then prohibited any more more trials and pardoned the ones that were convicted. These trials resulted not just from superstitions of the day. They were also caused by wars with the Indians. Fighting with Indians was inevitable. In 1637, the Puritans clashed with the Pequot tribe and defeated them. A few decades of peace lasted until King Philip created an alliance and attacked fifty-two towns, twelve of which were demolished completely. Religious tensions were another cause of the Trials. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by zealous Separatists. They left England because they wanted to break from the Church of England. Puritans believed that only those who were sanctified could be members of the church. In the Church of England, the king’s subjects were enrolled in the church, and often they weren’t godly people. When the colony was settled, there was a constant worry that non-puritans would corrupt the new colony. Non-puritans were persecuted. In one case, four Quakers refused to leave and, as a result, were hanged. After the colony’s settlement, settlers began to fear that the determination of the first generation was waning....
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...In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the tone of irony boats from every corner you look, this story casts a mirror onto McCarthyism and reflects the outcomes of this ironic process. The Crucible depicts the reality of the Salem Witch Trials in a time of hysteria and fear. Miller uses a past event to emphasize the effects of unnecessary fear imposed by McCarthyism, indirectly relating to the Salem Witch Trials. Miller’s, The Crucible, is one of irony in which it obliquely equates to the consequences of fear and blaming others by relating the Salem Witch Trials to McCarthyism. Abigail’s intentions regarding John Proctor are nothing if not ironic, you can see this perfectly in which Abigail acted out in a complete façade so that she could be...
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...The Holocaust and The Salem Witch Trials are two major events in history that are studied today. The Holocaust and The Salem Witch Trials have many similarities. These events are alike because of the accusations, a certain group of people, and the innocent lives that were taken. In 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts, a mass hysteria of witchcraft came about because of a group of girls(The Crucible, miller, arthur). The mass hysteria caused numerous but different reactions. Many of the reactions were having fits and outbursts, random screaming, and claims of being possessed(The Crucible miller, arthur).During this time, over two hundred people were accused and twenty people were killed.(The Crucible miller, arthur). Rumors had spread throughout the town about witchcraft and many had accused others, so they could have their land. (History.com) The Holocaust went on from 1933-1945 and six million of innocent Jews were killed(History.com). The Holocaust was during World War ll and Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, had blamed the Jews for the country's defeat(wikipedia). Adolf...
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...Throughout history, mankind has learned much through tragedy. The American Civil War and World War II were big factors that contributed to how people are viewed today. Nevertheless, the segregation of people by race, religious affiliation, ethnicity, sexuality, and occupation are still problems people face on a daily basis. Philosopher and novelist George Santayana understands this reoccurring problem better than anyone. He states, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” True to this statement, hundreds of years before The American Civil War and World War II were the Salem Witch Trials where people were segregated simply on suspicion of witchcraft. Two eye-opening, fictional retellings of this tragedy are The Crucible...
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