Theocracy In The Crucible

In the Crucible, the town of Salem was a hotbed of intrigue and people accuse each other of witchcraft. Back in the sixteen hundreds, the town of Salem, Massachusetts was home to some two thousand person’s living in and around the Salem village. The witch trials started at the beginning of sixteen ninety two and going till the middle of sixteen ninety three. Before the beginning of the trials, twelve women had already been accused of witchcraft and summarily executed by being hanged. During the trials, people from different places in and around Salem were accused and put in jail. Twenty people were later killed, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. Five other people died due to being put into jail. The main cause of this was

Theocracy, which was the way that the town of Salem was run, was another part of the problem caused by the witch trials. Theocracy is the melding of church and state, which in Salem caused the problems with all the killings. People who wanted things like Putnam, and were a part of the theoretical process could have the power of life or death over people. In Puritan society, everything had its place, from people who were in charge of the slaves that they owned, everyone had to follow a certain set of principles set out by their religion. Everyone had to go to church, nobody was allowed to work on the lord’s day, which is Sunday, everyone had to know the commandments and read the bible to just name a few of their many rules. In the play, people were looked down on if they did not adhere to the rules and could even be excommunicated if they were a

First of all, the most important change in the society was that of the young girls being basically in charge of the theocracy in Salem. In the first place kids had no power at all in Puritan and any society back then, let alone young girls, especially when women were seen as only mothers and nothing more. In the play, the girls called out whoever they wanted and ran the whole town. Nobody could stop them either, if the men relented and said that they were at fault, then they would be publicly ridiculed and would probably lose their positions and power and so they did not say that they were wrong and that everyone should be released. Another change was in power, the people who were poor were first killed in Salem so the people in power basically cleaned out the whole town of what they would see as filth. This left only the people who still had some power. This increased people’s power so that they could control more of the town. This was like the Army-McCarthy hearings of the 50’s. McCarthy was said to have given preferential treatment to an aide and the Army called him out on it. The main cause behind the accusations were that McCarthy had said that some people were Communists and that they should be cleared out of the government. This is like the play in that there was a more sinister motive behind accusing people of being