A 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 14, 2011
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The "Shes a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's the Holy Grail relates to The Crucible due to the accusing nature of the citizens claiming innocent people are a witch. In The Crucible, innocent citizens are accused of being a witch by unjust accusations. This also Occurs in Monty Python's Holy Grail. The court of people also have unjust ways of deturmining whether or not the person is involved in witchcraft.
This scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail is related to The Crucible in many ways. Hysteria is a theme in both. The characters in both lose all reasonable thinking when they find something to be fearful of. In "She's a Witch!", the characters decide that if the woman weighs the same as a duck then she's a witch. This is not logical. In The Crucible, the townspeople accuse others of being witches based on very little evidence.
The "She's a Witch" scene from Monty Python relates to Arthur Miller's The Crucible because of the numerous amounts of accusing in Salem. There was no legit reason of why the girl was a witch from the scene, but the people wanted to be hanged or burned because they may not have liked her as a person. In The Crucible, many people are accused of being a witch even though they have no sign of being one. It is not logical that she's a witch because they had put on a fake nose for the girl and had made up false stories about her.
The "Witch" scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail connects to The Crucible through the quick decisions of the people. In the clip we watched, the people already made the decision that she was a witch before they could even prove it. This connects with The Crucible because this is similar to what the girls who were dancing in the forest had to go through. The people that saw them dancing assumed that the girls were practicing witchcraft.
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The "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python relates to The Crucible by the content of the accusations. Monty Python saterizes the Salem with trials with ridiculous examples of accusations. It makes the town's people in The Crucible seem unrealistic and gullible. They want every excuse to hang the town's most unpopular or misunderstood people. The people in the Monty Python scene were more interested in discovering the unknown instead of caring about killing an innocent woman.
The scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail and The Crucible are similar regarding the court. In the court, they accuse people of witchcraft when no evidence is given. Also the scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail, they accuse the lady of being a witch because of how they had dressed her. To prove their point they weighed her and a duck, which in the end proved nothing. Also the men had dressed her in this witch costume to falsely accuse her of being a witch. In The Crucible they would also set people up to make it look like they did it.
The "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail and The Crucible strongly relate. In both, innocent people are accused of witchcraft for counterfeit reasons. These accusations lead to mass hysteria within the towns. In Monty Python's Holy Grail, an innocent woman is accused of witchcraft because of her physical appearance; even when her physical appearance was due to the mob that dressed her up as a witch. In The Crucible, a teenage girl accuses numerous people of witchcraft. The society believes her and begins to make up stories as to why the accused are guilty. Ignorance in any society leads to mass hysteria illustrated in both the "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail and The Crucible.
The easiest thing to notice in the "She's a Witch" scene is the way that everyone connects unrelated things. Such as relating the weight of a duck to being a witch. This connects to The Crucible in the way that many of the accusations of witchcraft were based off of something unrelated such as not going to church or being an outcast. Another way that the scene from Monty Python connects to The Crucible is the way that everyone trusts the knowledge of one person. In the "She's a Witch" scene everyone trusts everything the town leader says to be true, similarly in The Crucible, everyone trust what Danforth says to be accurate and proper.
The scene "She's a Witch!" from Monty Python's Holy Grail relates to The Crucible in their reasoning at the beginning to determine that she's a witch. In the scene they claim that she's a witch because of her appearance, even though they dressed her up like that. They also think she's a witch because she has a final wart. The final accusation is because she ways the same as duck. None of this information is proof that she is an actual witch. This is the same in The Crucible because many people are blamed of being witches even though there is no proof. They say that a doll with needles in its stomach at Elizabeth's house is proof that she tried to harm Abigail. They arrest Elizabeth of this even though Mary Warren brought the doll to the house. There is no proof that anybody is a witch in the "She's a Witch!" scene or The crucible.
In both "The Crucible" and Monty Python's "She's a Witch!" scene, the townspeople make unreasonable assumptions in order to put blame on a scapegoat, or in these cases, a witch. For example, in "The Crucible", the court assumes that if an accused person cannot recite the Ten Commandments, then that person is a witch. They do not, however, consider that the person may have just been nervous. In the "She's a Witch!" scene, the townspeople assume that since the girl weighs as much as a duck, she is a witch. This assumption does not even make sense, and yet everyone accepts it as true.
While watching the scene, "She's a Witch!" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I found myself laughing at how ridiculous the claims seemed. However, I realized that even though I found this amusing, the same type of situation arose in The Crucible. This led me to think that one of the main themes of The Crucible play is that people in a threatened society will group together to find a scapegoat under any circumstances. Like in the movie clip, characters from The Crucible overreacted and did not even think about how ridiculous their claims had become. Overall, I thought this movie clip accurately paralleled with our study of The Crucible.
"She's a Witch!" from Monty Python's the Holy grail directly relates to the courtroom in The Crucible. All of the men who bring forward the witch are really happy they found a witch so they can burn her. Also the Court officials would stop at nothing until the accused person admitted to walking with the devil or was hung. Along with the meaning being the same the themes in both is a scapegoat. In Monty Python the witch, they dressed up, was the scapegoat. In The Crucible the scapegoat was also witches but along with that came those who walk with the devil.
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The "she's a witch!" skit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail ties in a lot with the Crucible. In the Crucible innocent people are accused unjustly and without sufficient evidence. The same happens in the sketch as a mob dresses up a woman as a witch and simply claims that she is a witch for no reason except they want to see a person burn, and also the mob of people were made out to be unintelligent. These two are similar because they both have citizens who follow mob mentality and base their accusations on practically no evidence at all.
The "Shes a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's the Holy Grail and the book the Crucible both share the same theme of hysteria. Both the characters in The crucible and Monty Python use the excuse of witch to explain why bad things happen to them when it is all circumstance. When one person sees that another got away with blaming another they all follow.
The scene "Shes a Witch!" from Monty Python's The Holy Grail relates to the theme of hysteria in the Crucible. Hysteria is perceived as an overreaction to something causing an outbreak of emotion or fear. This is exactly what happens in the scene from the Holy Grail because the towns people are so worried about witches that they try anything to prove the lady is a witch. In the Crucible Abigail Williams has a similar tactic to try and accuse people of witchcraft. In the court room there is no getting out of what you are accused and that is because of the hysteria they experience.
The "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python relates to The Crucible because both societies quickly accuse others for really no apparent reason. Also the way the court decides is your innoccent is ridiculous just like the way the people in the Monty Python scene do. The court bases their decision and the accusations made by some little girls and the people in the Monty Python movie do it by seeing if the person weighs the same as a duck on and scale that is obviously messed up.
The "She's a Witch" scene from Monty Python relates to The Crucible because of the false accusations of being a witch. In the scene "She's a Witch", the towns people were accusing the lady to be a witch even though there was no evidence. In the crucible, some people were accused of being a witch without any real signs of being one. These two stories show that telling lies and false accusations can lead to very bad problems and maybe even death.
"Shes a Witch!" this scene from Monty Python is a great representation of how quick people are too judge without proof or any text book knowledge to support the claims in The Crucible. The fact that anyone can simply choose to decide that this person is a witch leads to chaos and self destruction of a town and friendships because anyone can die for the lie.
It relates in many ways to the Crucible by people joining in accusing people of things they didn't do such as in Monte Python how they dressed her up to look like a witch even though she wasn't one. Also the court is ruling based off of if she weighs as much as a duck and in the Crucible they're going off of what people are saying to determine if a persons a witch.
The "Shes a Witch!" scene from Moty Python's the Holy Grail relates to The Crucible in a way that anyone would do anything to blame people for witcraft and that the towns people are paranoid about witchcraft.
The scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail is related to The Crucible in many ways. One of the biggest ways is there is always an witch. Not proven or not but i is still there.
The scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail is related to The Crucible with the calling of witch. Even if it is not true. There is always that peron that gets called witch with out realy proof.
I think that the saterical witch hunt in Monty Python was kinda of making fun of the Crucible in a way. It shows that the characters in The Crucible were taking it too far and they were overthinking what was going on. It made you think that there was a chance that there could have been witches, but that it was highly improbable.
The "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's the Holy Grail relates to the Crucible because in both stories they accuse innocent people of witchcraft on the wildest accusations. They do not use resonable evidence to prove that people are witches or are invloved with witchcraft.
The witch seen in Monty Python relates to The crucible because, in the movie the accuse this lady for being a with for no real reason just like in the play abigail accuses other girls of witchcraft for no reason. Also in Monty Python they have no real logic to their reasoning, as well as in the Crucible this occurs
The "She's A Witch" scene from Monty Python is related to the Crucible through satire. In The Crucible, they follow ridiculous paths of logic to arrive at a conclusion, but the court was deadly serious. Monty Python is supposed to be comical, and therefor it's harder to believe that middle age commoners could follow that way of thinking.
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