Along with this older tradition, attitudes toward witches and the witch hunts of the 14th–18th centuries stemmed from a long history of the church’s theological and legal attacks on heretics. Accusations similar to those expressed by the ancient Syrians and early Christians appeared again in the...
McCarthyism refers to a period after World War II when Senator McCarthy drummed up mass hysteria and paranoia among Americans who feared the spread of Soviet power and communism within the U.S. Like the Salem witch hunts and witch trials, McCarthyism and its public hearings and de facto ...
Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” is a dramatization of events of immense importance that is set during the salem witch hunts which is also known to have occurred around the late 17th century in Massachusetts. The action of the play is set in a country frozen in the hatred and fear of wit...
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