Arguments Against Transracialism In The Crucible

Kaitlan Torres-Ring
Research paper
“Witch Hunts”

The modern day witch hunts are not taken as serious as Salem witch trials, although there are many things alike in many ways witch hunts are not the same concept now at all. Modern day witch hunts aren't really directed as “witches,” more as transracial or overweight etc. It's the way society identifies a person and how they view them on what they don't certainly agree with.
“A tribute for a number of the arguments against transracialism”(Singal). In this quote it is stating that there are different arguments against transracialism, overweight problems, etc just as in the crucible. There are so many arguments and accusations about the witchery, what it is and where is comes from. “The witch

hunts was an important, and long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicity of guilt and sins under the cover of accusations against the victims”(Miller,1258). There are so many things they come up with to out against the “witches.” They always assume what they hear is the truth. They are so mind washed into what they think they can not overcome and look at both sides of the story. The research supports the major point because there are many people who make up many accusations towards other people or “them.”
“We can not look to superstition in this.

The devil is Precise” (Miller, act 1, pg 1276). They can not just assume they are witches and talking with the devil. The girls could be either faking or just not at all. Either way in this situation you can't really assume you know . anything. “We should accept that there's little apparent logically cover vent reason to deny possibility of genuine transracialism”(Singal). Anybody could be a transracial, although you will never know. You can not just jump to conclusions and think you know. They don’t have a certain look or type to them. They just live there everyday life like any other person would. The paragraph states that you can’t just assume at anytime. You never know who is

what.
“Then that will not confess will hang” (Miller, act 4 1348).

“If you did not confess you would be hanged and punished for it. The punishment for seller witch trials were a lot different then now. They were hung and whipped then. “ If the accused is lucky, they will get a kind of Justice in some form”(Swancer) If a person is accused they have things they can do to help them. They could get a lawyer to help them and get out of trouble, but back then they had to confess. The difference are there but not in very much different ways.
Witch trials are a certain thing that used to be a big issue during the Salem witch trials even. Now although it's a little different ways. The concepts between the two are very different because the witch hunt today are not specifically for witches. They are more about different things in society as in transracials, overweight problems, etc. They are also handled differently as then they would be hung but now just judged and prosecuted. Identified as how society views them in right of their

ancestry.

Work Cited:

Swancer, Brent, and Paul Seaburn. “The Dark World of Real Modern Day Witch Hunters.”Mysterious Universe, 25 Sept. 2017, mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/09/the-dark-world-of-real-modern-day-witch-hunters/.

Singal, Jesse. “This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like.” Daily Intelligencer, nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html.

Miller, Arthur. “The Crucible .” Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience, edited by Kate Kinsella et al., Penguin ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007, pp. 1257–1358.