Similarities Between The Crucible And Salem Witch Trials

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Crucible Comparison Essay

Since the dawn of time, millions of people have been unjustly persecuted. In the nineteen forties, the Holocaust in Hitler’s Nazi Germany became one of the most famous genocides of all time and will probably forever. Also, the Salem witch trials taking place in the sixteen forties are another example where people were sectionalized, wrongly accused and punished. Although the Holocaust and the Salem witch trials have numerous differences, there are similarities which are appalling.

Hitler the Fuhrer of Germany in the late nineteen thirties to nineteen forties was an incredibly respected person. Hitler had full control over people and the decisions they made. Hitler convinced the German public and others across the world that the world was corrupt because of the Jews and that the world need’s to be restored to Größe meaning greatness. Similarly in Miller’s Crucible Abigail convinces that select few in the town of Salem Massachusetts are practicing witchcraft. Trials are held to prove if the people of Salem that Abigail Williams had believed to be witches were in fact witches. Abigail found that she possessed great authority over the people of Salem. Even though Abigail was a child, the town listened to what she had to say, convinced that her accusations were true about others.
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Both Jews and alleged Witches were victimized in each incident were blamed because they were outsiders. Hitler aimed to eliminate the Jewish race because they didn’t ‘fit’ plans for the master race. Hitler also victimized crippled and mentally challenged children. He felt that since they were different in that they had disabilities they were ‘unworthy’ of