Accusations Without Proof

Accusations Without Proof In Arthur Millers foregather The melting pot, he tells the story of capital of Oregon, Massachusetts during the witch trials. He does this to draw a relation between the red sc ar of the fifties and the false accusations of the girls and the community in Salem in 1692. In his play the poor girls who are about twelve to eighteen, they were terpsichore naked in the forest with a black caldron with Tituba.Paris is the one who finds them and ow solely the girls catch to lie and say Tituba is in touch with the devil, routine worry they image evil spirits, and say that mint were witches level thou they were non. In the rest a hatch of tidy sum die everywhere silly things that could not even be proven. Some of the things they would do for punishment was, they would bewilder them underwater for ten minutes and if they came vertebral column up dead they were not witches, if they were alert they were. It was a lose lose method and not the best wa y to function things.Most cases they came up dead. Another thing they would do is vindicatory hang hem and not give them a chance to relieve themselves. When they would take them into court and testify that they were not in touch with the devil the girls would act equal they see things, and break down to loll scared. One girl went as far as faking a coma for some(prenominal) hours. The people that died did not deserve to all over something silly like little girls assay to induct out of rough-and-tumble. This was much like the Red Scare because, everyone was paranoid opinion communism was taking over.People were questioned to see if they were communist, ust like in The melting pot. It Just goes to show how straightaway rumors endure spread. Arthur Miller wrote about The Crucible because he wanted to show how final stage it was to the Red Scare, and that people would be questioned without proof. The drive of this book is to demonstrate how hysteria and rumors can cause people a lot of problems, which in this case caused several people to die. In the Red Scare people model Russians were spreading communism. In The Crucible people thought witchcraft was spreading through Salem.The girls went as far as letting eople close to them die Just to save themselves from getting in trouble. When proctor and another member of Salem start an argument over whose land they are on, rumors start to spread that the girls are doing this to get their neighbors land. Elizabeth is the one who convinces earth-closet into admitting that he has seen the devil. John agrees to do it. The officers of the court rejoice in finding out something about the trials. entirely John refuses to give up anymore names in which he sawing machine with the devil.The officers of the court want John to rush his confession public nevertheless he grows ith anger and tears up the put down he was suppose to sign. John and triplet others were hung at the very end of the book. on the wh ole of the Salem witch trials could defy been avoided if the sort out of girls would nave Just contessed to dancing naked in the torest. They could nave saved several lives from being stop and unnecessary punishments. People had to sit in poky for years and would reach killed themselves kind of of going crazy in Jail.In the end they still got in trouble but if they would have confessed right away they would have robably Just got in minor trouble instead of ending up having a bunch of innocent people. The court didnt grapple the situation in the right manor either. They put people in Jail that they had no proof against. They could have thought of better ways to decide if they were witches or not instead of having them killed. In culmination all of the Salem Witch Trials could have been avoided and lives could have been saved if the self-centered girls would have Just confessed right away. Mr. Hale, you surely do not doubt my Justice. -Danforth