Logical Fallacies in Crucible

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Match the logical fallacy to the example in the Crucible. Then choose one example to consider how Miller deploys this failure of logic to elucidate the problems of social hysteria spreading across a complicit and suspicious society

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Matching Pairs Logical Fallacies in CrucibleOnline version Match the logical fallacy to the example in the Crucible. Then choose one example to consider how Miller deploys this failure of logic to elucidate the problems of social hysteria spreading across a complicit and suspicious society by Krista Bowen 1 Danforth to Mary Warren in Act III "You will confess or you will hang!" 2 Parris to Proctor in Act I: "“I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm...” 3 Parris to Putnams, Proctor and Giles in Act I "There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!" 4 Proctor to the court about the potential of "hidden" poppets in his house in Act III "There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it" 5 Giles to Hale about Martha's books in Act I Giles: Mr. Hale, I have always wanted to ask a learned man - what signifies the readin’ of strange books? Hale: What books? Giles: I cannot tell; she hides them, Hale; Who does this? Giles: Martha, my wife. I have waked at night many a time and found her in a comer, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that? Hale: Why, that’s not necessarily - Giles: It discomfits me! Last night - mark this - I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. And then she close her book and walks out of the house, and suddenly - mark this - I could pray again! 6 Act III Martha Corey: I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is. Hathorne: How do you know then that you are not a witch? Martha Corey: If I were I would know it. 7 Hale to Proctor in Act II In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in the church on Sabbath Day. 8 Abigail and the girls, Act III Abigail, looking about in the air, clasping her arms about her as though cold: I - I know not. A wind, a cold wind, has come... Mercy Lewis, shivering: Your Honor, I freeze! ... Susanna Walcott: I freeze, I freeze! 9 Abigail to Danforth and Mary Warren and all in Act III Danforth: She spoke nothing of lechery, and this man has lied. Hale: I believe him! Pointing at Abigail: This girl has always struck me false! She has - Abigail, with a weird, wild, chilling cry, screams up to the ceiling. Abigail: You will not! Begone! Begone, I say! Danforth: What is it, child?.... Abigail: Why - ? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird? Hasty Generalization False Dilemma or Either/Or Circular Reasoning Red Herring Slippery Slope Post Hoc Ad Hominem Bandwagon Non Sequitur

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