Supernatural Events In The Crucible

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Hanging with Witches Large controversial topics such as the idea of witches revolves around people creating unique solutions as to explain supernatural events; a common form of security over their fragile minds. The book “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, captures the perfect description of a group of people letting their fear and uncertainty impact their moral sense and compass, creating irrational accusations and theories. Unable to accept the idea of science or logic, the book follows along the characters as they unravel a make-believe game that ideally ends with them finding themselves filled to the brim with confusion and the deaths of others. The same applies to the article, “Extended Forecast: Bloodshed,” by The New York Time; although both “supernatural events” are completely explainable by science and logic, the outcome still lies within the peoples emotions and fear. …show more content…

Abigail used her as to explain why she and the other girls were dancing in the woods. "But the indirect social and political impact in poor countries may be even more far-reaching, including upheavals and civil wars — and even more witches hacked to death with machetes." This is similar to the book because in The Crucible, the people being accused were punished with death. The obvious mayhem in The Crucible was the accusations of witchcraft. With the quotes, it helps explains the fear that were within the villages which resulted in the deaths and accusations of the

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