Bonjour, actuellement en terminale S je suis dans la réalisation de mes fiches d'oral pour le BAC d'anglais. Pourriez vous corriger mes faute pour celle ci ?
(Présentation). I'm going to talk about the notion Myths ans Heroes. Myth can be a legend or a thing from the past we still remember, it's can be an imaginary story. Myth is often associate with hero. A hero is someone who saves someone's life, he's powerful. In fact we can considered somebody who is hunting as an hero and this person can be a myth.
We can ask us self about the several
forms of witch hunting in the USA ?
1. First we will see witches ad witch hunting in 17th century America
2. Then we will see witches and witch hunting in 20th century America

Witch and witch hunting in 17th century America

During the 17th century, in America, many people were accused of witchcraft. Puritanism it was a very strict religious. So all forms of distractions were forbidden and considered as sin. People had to respect a very strict dress code and respect their values. They were scared of the devil infiltrating their community.

Also in the 17th century, with hunting was omnipresent, for example during the trial of Salem, 200 people were accused of witchcraft and 20 were hanged. Witch hunting can be explained by popular belief and epidemics famines or illnesses . But people attributed all mysterious things to the devil and women were ideal victims to explain all the tragedy of the world.
Witches and witch hunting in
20th century America

As to the 17th century, we found the notion of « witch hunting » in the 20th century in America. In fact in these days, a politic against communism was put in place. We have seen a document “The Hollywood blacklist”. People's names were put on this list because they were accused of being Communists. We can considered them as hero because they fight everyday against people. We can also speak about Charlie Chaplin who was accused of Communist sympathies, and so he leaves America. Today he's a legend, famous and he 's a sort of hero because he returns in US to receive a special Academy Award.

Moreover, in “The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller we can see a woman , five fingers are pointing at her. She looks afraid. These people are probably accusing her of being a witch. Maybe she did something wrong in the past, but she's clearly humiliated. She was accused of witchcraft.

Even if today witch hunting doesn't really exist, numerous people are still rejected and excluded, without real reason. Especially small community in some countries, as in America : after the attack on « pearl harbor », the Japaneses communities living in the states was suspected to help the enemy. So they were the victims of American prejudice. They were scapegoats, and we see this very well on the film “Snow falling on Cedars”.

To conclude, in all century there were heroes, legends and myths about witchcraft. Therefore some people were rejected by a country, a state or a community. Their story make them heroes. Witch hunting change but nowadays, there is always scapegoats.