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? Complete your response by 2:30p.m. on Fri., Nov. 15th.
posted by Greg T at Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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Although the Monty Python sketch is quite comical, it does relate to the crucible in that the townspeople are being comically ridiculous in that they have no idea what they’re talking about. They say she’s a witch just because “She looks like one” and they know that wood isn’t the only thing that floats on water, but still throw her in water anyway to test if she is a witch. In the crucible, the only proof they have of whether the citizens are witches are citizens accounts. The only proof in Monty Python that they have is that she looks like a witch.
The Monty Python Sketch and The Crucible have the dame base idea, even though Monty Python takes it to the extreme to make it funny. That idea is that it is ridicules how these people think other people are witches by reasons that don't make any sense. Like in the Crucible all you had to do was be accused and they would find something you did that would classify you as a witch. Even just reading books would lead to being accused of being a witch. In Monty Python they take the same concept but to the extreme, like saying shes a witch because she looks like one or because she "weighs" the same as a duck. I find the sketch hilarious and also of having some truth in it as well.
The Monty Python Sketch and The Crucible have the dame base idea, even though Monty Python takes it to the extreme to make it funny. That idea is that it is ridicules how these people think other people are witches by reasons that don't make any sense. Like in the Crucible all you had to do was be accused and they would find something you did that would classify you as a witch. Even just reading books would lead to being accused of being a witch. In Monty Python they take the same concept but to the extreme, like saying shes a witch because she looks like one or because she "weighs" the same as a duck. I find the sketch hilarious and also of having some truth in it as well.
I think that The Crucible and the scene from Monty Python are very alike. They both will accuse anyone for contacting the devil or being a witch. I think they also show how they don’t care, they will do anything just to hang someone that could be innocent. In The Crucible even though there are a lot of young girls that are accused of contacting the devil the people just want someone to die they don’t care who they are. From the scene they all want this woman to die because they made her look like a witch, they don’t have any proof that she is one.
The Monty Python sketch and The Crucible are very alike for multiple reasons. They both don't seem to have any true reasons for accusing one of being a witch, most of the reasons are extravagant and made up. Like in the Monty Python sketch the "witch" said the townspeople dressed her up like that, and was their only reasoning to why she was a witch. Also in both the Monty Python sketch and The Crucible, the townspeople go along with theories that barely make any sense; everyone just follows one another and barely thinks for themselves. The citizens in both societies will do anything to see someone be proven guilty as long as it isn't themselves.
I think the "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail is a very accurate remake of the Crucible. The people have no real proof that the woman is a witch, they just make it seem like she is a witch. They do this by dressing her as a witch, like in the Crucible when Abigail framed Elizabeth Proctor of using voodoo to stick a needle in her. The court is also the same as the Crucible because they don't know a proper way to prove if the person is a witch so they usually end up putting the accused people to death.
The Monty Pythons “She’s a Witch!” sketch, although very funny did not directly relate to the play “The Crucible.” In the sketch they humored the Salem witch trials to the point of almost too much. Even though the whole era of the witch trials are seen as crazy in today’s society, the people of the time found the trials to be fully serious. When in the sketch they are listing off ways to figure out if she is a witch or not, they were too extremely stupid to be able to relate it back to the play itself. There were some elements such as the knight who dictated the whole trial which related to the court in the play. In the sketch I found the women they were prosecuting to be more like Goody Proctor in the play. They were both set up as a witch for extreme reasons (changing into a newt and stabbing Abigail). All in all, even though about the same topic I do not see the Monty Python sketch to be very relatable to the play “The Crucible”.
The “She’s a Witch” from Monty Python and The Crucible are related in the way that people will find any excuse to accuse people of witchery. In The Crucible for example, when the townspeople hear rumors of witchcraft, they start blaming their neighbors and people they’ve suspected. In “She’s a Witch”, they obviously exaggerated it, but the townspeople dressed up the women to make her appear as a witch and to make their case better. She wasn’t really a witch, so they dressed were like one a put a large nose on her face.
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While reading the Crucible, I thought of this scene. They are a lot alike. In the Crucible, a group of girls claim they saw people with the devil and had no evidence. The judge listened to the people accused but still believed the girls. Same with the Monty Python scene. A group of men accused a woman of witchcraft without any real evidence. They portrayed her to be a witch, dressed her up with a hat and a silly nose. Even though it was obviously fake, they still found her guilty and burned her.
I think that the video clip is exactly what was happening in the text; the whole hysteria and then the accusations. The village is like all the girls in the play because they were the ones dressing up the witches and ultimately accusing them. also the main knight was like the judges with unreasonable logic that he just decides to follow leading to their death. That’s why the film connects to the play.
I think that the video clip is exactly what was happening in the text; the whole hysteria and then the accusations. The village is like all the girls in the play because they were the ones dressing up the witches and ultimately accusing them. also the main knight was like the judges with unreasonable logic that he just decides to follow leading to their death. That’s why the film connects to the play.
I think that the video clip is exactly what was happening in the text; the whole hysteria and then the accusations. The village is like all the girls in the play because they were the ones dressing up the witches and ultimately accusing them. also the main knight was like the judges with unreasonable logic that he just decides to follow leading to their death. That’s why the film connects to the play.
The events in the Monty Python scene and The Crucible are almost identical. There is not knowledge on anything. They don't understand the actually events taking place. They believe that some force is doing this all on its own and is using the 'witches' to do that. There is also very little useful evidence. They both use appearances as evidence for accusing someone as a witch. They don't have anyway to prove the person is a witch. In The Crucible they use accusations and in Monty Python they use compare the woman's weight to that of a duck. If she weighs less than the duck then she is a witch. The mob mentality takes place very quickly in both. Their is just yelling about who did what. Both have the people in a lot of hysteria.
The "She's a Witch" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail depicts a women being wrongly accused of being a witch by the townspeople. This scene has a lot in common with The Crucible. The first thing they have in common is that both the people of Salem and the people in the scene continue to accuse innocent citizens of being witches. Like the children from The Crucible the people in the scene accuse anyone they want to see burned or killed for their own benefit. They also come forth with little to no proof of the women actually being a witch. In my opinion the knight in the scene resembles the courts from The Crucible. Both listen to the "invisible" evidence presented and suprisingly agree with it. The knight even goes on to supply his own invisible evidence as to why she is a witch. Which is similar to Danforth who gives those accused an ultimatum to eather confess or be hanged. The society in this scene resembles that of The Crucible and both revolve around the idea: How people react to the unknown.
The "She's a Witch!" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail although a bit over exaggerated shares the same idea as The Crucible. The townspeople in the sketch are accusing the lady of being a witch only because she "looks like one". And then the authority figure in the town (knight) somewhat helps the lady when he discovers that the nose is fake, but then adds to the idiocy from then on. They like the townspeople of Salem decide she's guilty based on very little if any evidence. Also the only evidence being provided comes from the townspeople in both The Crucible and the Monty Python sketch leaving anyone vulnerable to be wrongly accused. The courts of Salem share similar characteristics to the knight in the sketch. The knight in the sketch comes up with this ridiculous way of telling if she's a witch or not by seeing if she's the same weight as a duck, and some how she is. The courts in Salem acts the same way by sentencing many innocent people to hang based on minimal evidence. So overall the comical sketch from Monty Python and the Holy Grail conveys the same topic that The Crucible does.
after watching Monty Python’s, “she’s a witch”, I noticed that even in that there were throwing random accusation out towards the women and using them as a scapegoat, this is very similar to the crucible because they both had the super natural “witch” as the problem that is sweeping down on their town and “corrupting” everyone, but in the end an innocent person is being put to death for some made up story! when comparing their logic in both situations are not up to date because they will come up with the most asinine situation that will set you up to fail and will sentence you to death on the spot. The courts were also similar and going with death in most cases.
The satirical video excerpt from Monty Python and the Holy Grail called 'She's a witch' I noticed that although the acting in Monty Python was heavily exaggerated, it's not too far from The Crucible. They have many similarities. It really gives you a humorous yet astoundingly true view on how people went about determining who was a witch during this era. Just like Monty Python, the characters in The Crucible don't have any hard evidence of any kind to prove that the accused are actually witches. The satirical theme in Monty Python actually comes across as a very serious theme in The Crucible, seeing as innocent lives were cost because of the rampant accusations during this time. Just like the video, the characters in The Crucible have seemingly silly and nonsensical reasons of why someone would be a witch. The townspeople in The Crucible use the witchery as a method of explanation for the events that happen that they cannot logically explain, just like the Monty Python video. It shows the absurd nature of The Crucible, but it was a really serious problem during the era.
Even though the Monty Python scene was making fun of The Crucible, it does relate to the Crucible. The townspeople in the Monty Python scene were very funny but they had no idea what they were talking about. Their only way of identifying a witch in the Monty Python scene is how she looks or "if she floats" but in the crucible they go to the court and question to see if there witch.
The clip directly relates to the crucible because the people would find any reason to assume people were witches. Monty Python is an extremely satirized movie and in the crucible I’m sure people realized how absurd the witch trials actually were although they did have to maintain a reputation. Its interesting how peoples reputation was more important to them than the truth. (trotter- I accidentally forgot to post it Friday because I saved it to a Google docs -- please dont mark off points :D )
Both the Crucible and Monty Python share similar characteristics in that they both use obviously incorect "logic" to come to a common conclusion that supports their beliefs.
The scene “She’s a witch” from Monty Python is a very funny sketch but it also relates thematically to the play The Crucible r. In the scene “She’s a witch” shows how a group of people can be overcome by cultural hysteria and act in an irrational way. Just like in The Crucible the people in Monty Python use illogical reasoning to determine if a woman is a witch or not. These two relate because of how the display how a group of people can act when scared and it causes them to make decisions they might not have if they were thinking rationally.
The hilarious scene "She's a Witch" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail relates to The Crucible in many ways. Although Monty Python made the scene comical it still had some of the same aspects of Witch Trials. Both took either very little or corrupt evidence to kill so called "witches". The towns people in Monty Python were very uneducated and had practically no evidence. They burned the girl because she weighed the same as a duck. Ridiculous am I right? But, so were the Salem witch trials.
The scene, "Shes a witch" from Monty Python satirizes the logic that people used to determine whether people were witches or not. We see a more serious version of the logic in the crucible where they will just believe any accusation. In both scenarios there is some severe naivety taking place, the scene helps me find a different view of 'The Crucible'. I realize that people thought they were being smart even though we laugh at it.
In Monty Python the witch scene is people who wanted a girl to get hung cause she looks like a witch, for no other reason than just that, and no proof she is a witch. This relates to the crucible by people just accusing and having no proof just suspicions and no actual proof.
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