"Satirical Witch Hunt!"
Compare the "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail with The Crucible. What does it make you think about regarding the play's text, characters, theme, relationships, and court?
posted by Greg T at Monday, November 08, 2010
12 Comments:
This scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail shows how dumb people where or how naive they were when it came to crimes and accusing people. They all were believing everything that they were being told just like people in the Crucible. One of the themes could be how easily people were convinced that other people were witches because that was what they were being told. It also makes me think about how poor the court system was since in both Monty Python and The Crucible they convicted people of being witches that were more than likely not.
This scene from Monty Python is an example of the absurd accusations. They came out of nowhere, and once accused you could basically expect death. This related to the crucible because the so called “evidence” of why this woman was a witch was completely irrelevant, or in this case inexistent. If this situation was anything like the crucible or real-life Salem, this specific woman would have been picked specifically based on either the woman’s vulnerability, or the community’s dislike of her.
The scene from the clip relates perfectly to the crucible. Even though the Crucible is not intended to be humorous, the logic is so far off that it almost becomes funny. The scene from monty python takes it to the next level but sadly, the logic used in the crucible was so poor that this representation is not too far off. It is sad that this bad humor can relate so well to a true story of a time in American History
The scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail is filled with irrational, illogical connections. A piece of wood and a duck are not the only things that float in water. Although contributing to the hilarious humor of this movie, it reveals that there was no justifiable evidence contributing to the testimonies. This factor is apparent in The Crucible when Abigail accuses many others of doing such acts of making her drink blood or watching over her at night. Also, the evidence that she faked including Elizabeth and the doll was much like the crowd dressing the so-called witch in costume. Also, leadership is another main theme in both this scene and the play. When one person suggested an idea, the rest of the crowd would follow along and play off what has been said. Abigail used this strategy on several occasions to manipulate people into thinking she was the victim. The court system bought into this approach quite easily.
The scene from monty python shows that people back then were not in the slightest way smart, but it does show that there were very vague ways of telling if someone was a "witch". Even though their methods were crud they accuse many ppl that way. Its jsut like the villagers in the cruciable, they were suseptiable to the girls lies.
The scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is all though exaggerated, very similar to the accusations in The Crucible. There was either very light or no evidence at all, they dressed up the girl and they accused her just because. Also if one person said something the whole crowd repeated it. Then the knight acting as the judge, made his conclusion off of completely unreasonable things. Like in The Crucible, the girls made up accusations and had little to no evidence. And once one, usually Abigail, said something the rest followed. The judges having no idea what was true or false, made unjust decisions based on these inaccurate accusations. The Holy Grail does a good job of showing how shocking the accusation and court systems were.
The scene from "Monty Python" related with "The Crucible" with the theme of "following a group". Throughout "The Crucible" characters just wanted to live their life in peace and so they had to do whatever was necessary to survive; like blending in with the crowd. When someone was accused everyone would jump on the bandwagon of the accuser as to hide themselves from being accused as well. In "Monty Python" the woman being accused of witchcraft is the person outside the mob of people. She is the one being singled out even though someone in the group accusing her could be a witch themselves.
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the scene from monty python's holy grail, just farthermore reinforces/supports my sprouting opinion on the drama involved with witchcraft in the crucible; ridiculousness. it simply exhibits the absurdness of it all, and essentially mocks the crucible. they are also related in the way of ludicrous and unjustly accusations, which in fact, contain no backbone.
The ways that the people in Monty Python prove that the woman is a witch are very differnt from the ways they did in the Crucible. In Monty Python they made very unitelligent guesses and came to a decision that she was a witch. This does not happen in the Cruciable, people use all of they knoledege and logic to decern if the girls were doing witchcraft or not. The decision was not made in the matter of hours! That shows how the people in Monty Python were not very intellegent.
The scene from “Monty Python” shows how absurd accusations can be and how group mentality plays a major role in a society. It exaggerated the fact of accusations to make a point and show how there really doesn’t have to be any justified evidence for a group to believe in something. This scene relates to “The Crucible”, in that the majority of people believed in the so-called evidence of witchcraft because of what others believed. They felt the need to go along with the beliefs of the majority even if they new that it wasn’t really true. Overall this scene shows how extreme accusations can be carried out and how people go along with certain accusations to ultimately protect themselves from being accused. This relates to the court in “The Crucible” because they didn’t really have any proof and there evidence was unseen. (Imaginative) This is similar to that of the women in “Monty Python”, and how they were making up reasons for her being a witch. (Floating in water)
The scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail was very similar to the theme in the crucible. The convictions of witch craft were never based off of solid provable evidence. Also, the test to see if the person was a witch or not was unfair because the person couldn't defend their selves.
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