...Salem is a backstabbing, greedy, and two faced community. Salem is in chaos because of all the talk about witchcraft. I chose to represent Giles Corey, Samuel Parris, and Thomas Putnam from the play The Crucible. The first character I chose was Giles corey. Giles Corey An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem. Giles is married to Martha Corey. I represented Giles Corey on my character art poster as dark red stones. The second character I chose was Reverend Samuel Parris. Samuel Parris is the minister of Salem’s church. Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry type of character in this play. I represented Reverend Samuel Parris on my character art poster as orange coins. Also not many of the townsfolk like him. The last character I chose was Thomas Putnam. Putnam is a wealthy, and influential citizen in Salem. I represented Thomas Putnam as dark green trees. I put all my symbols on a black background because Salem is a very dark place. I made the black sheet of paper have jagged sides because...
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...used to contribute to make a difficult time or situation, which is a crucible. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts Man’s word is worthless against harsh judgment. With the false evidence and the corrupting lies, there will be only one who will try to fight for freedom and break free from the Law’s powerful hold. First and Foremost, Reverend Samuel Parris is worried about his reputation, and along with that comes tremendous paranoia. He is a busybody and has a sense of purposefulness. Parris is an immensely paranoid character. The importance he places on reputation creates for him a considerable amount of paranoia. This paranoia is evident many times throughout the play. In the opening scene, Parris is speaking with Abigail about his recent discovery of her in the forest. He discovered his daughter and niece dancing in the forest, an activity that is prohibited. Dancing is not only frowned upon but it is seen as associated with witchcraft. He is immediately concerned about himself. His daughter is sick in bed, perhaps unconscious, and his niece could potentially be accused of witchcraft. That’s when he calls Reverend John Hale of Beverly, an expert on witchcraft, to determine whether Betty is indeed bewitched since she participated in those wicked activities. In addition, the relationship between John and Elizabeth Proctor change over the course of the play. Elizabeth and John Proctor were...
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...connections, and don’t have the education. The illegal immigrants are willing to do the jobs that a lot of people in the US wouldn’t do. Its enough to make a living and go back home and live a bit better. The third and last event that proves mankind is evil is the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials where trials in colonial Salem, Massachusetts where young women were accused of witchcraft. There was an execution of about 20 people. Fourteen of the twenty were hung. It all started in the spring of 1692. It all started when Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter got sick. She started having fits, violent, contortions, and uncontrollable outburst of screaming. William Griggs a local doctor said she was bewitched. Other girls were having the symptoms along with barking like dogs and dancing. Ann Putnam Jr., Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren are only some of the girls diagnosed of being bewitched. Late February Tituba Reverend Samuel Parris’ Caribbean slave was arrested for bewitching the girls along with Sarah Good, and Sara Osborn. Some of the local girls started saying that they were being possessed by the devil by local women. Hysteria spread through Massachusetts. A court in Salem heard about the cases and hung Bridget Bishop in June. Eighteen others were brought to Salem Gallows Hill to meet their end. In the next few months 150 people accused of being witches, but not necessarily killed. It wasn’t till the September of 1692 till everything stopped. On the...
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...was made in Connecticut. This case was disturbing because it influenced everyone, in puritan societies, to believe that Satan was close at hand and physically able to act in the real world.. At the time, Salem was a Puritan community in which was built upon those who fled religious execution therefore the religious authority and the government was not separate. Those who would question local authority were blamed for questioning royal authority. Eventually the hysteria spread to Massachusetts in 1692 after two young girls had been acting in alarming and been in physical pain. The physician concluded that the girls were not victims of a physical or mental illness but victims of witchcraft.2. These two girls were Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. Abigail Williams, who was 11 years of age, had a...
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...the 13 colonies of the United States. Known as King William’s war, it caused hundreds of people to migrate into Salem, Massachusetts for refuge. The population in fluctuation affected the economy because resources became scarce. As a result, people started to become sick and social relations became tense. In response, people became aggravated and a lot of quarreling occurred. In addition, the people were very scared about being attacked by the Native Americans. People started to think that all of this turmoil was the Devil’s fault. Soon, the people became extremely frantic and paranoid. Though all of the preceding events definitely added to the start of the witchcraft craze, what really set off the whole crisis was when Salem’s Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter and niece, Betty Adams and Abigail Williams, began to have fits of violent screaming and contortions. Soon,...
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...the religion. A "witchcraft craze" was the term used that rippled through Europe from the 1300s to the end of the 1600s. Tens of thousands of supposed witches—mostly women—were executed. When it reached Salem the European craze was starting to wine down. In 1689, English rulers William and Mary started a war with France in the American colonies. Known as King William's War to colonists, it ravaged regions of upstate New York, Nova Scotia and Quebec, sending refugees into the county of Essex and, specifically, Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This war aggravated the existing rivalry between families with ties to the wealth of the port of Salem and those who still depended on agriculture. Controversy also brewed over Reverend Samuel Parris, who became Salem Village's first ordained minister in 1689, and was disliked because of his rigid ways and greedy nature. The Puritan villagers believed all the quarreling was the work of the Devil. After going thru the background Blumberg goes on...
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...Can you believe there was a time in history that people died for having freckles or if they could swim they were considerd to be witches? Well this happened in the historical context of the Salem witchcraft trials. And the setting in the witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spear is very similar. The Witch of Blackbird pond setting is around the same time was the Salem Witchcraft trials occurred. Did you know that the Salem witchcraft trials really happened? It happened around the time 1692 - 1693, and it was in Salem Massachusetts. This all happened because two girls in Salem claimed to be processed by the devil. Because of this, people thought other people were witches and casting spells and possessing people. So to see if you were...
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...them of witchcraft and without evidence it actually works 3-tituba- reverent Parris slave, accused of trying to conjure dead spirits Abigail- 17-year-old niece of Parris, affair with proctor, control the girls involve in the witch trial Betty- teenage daughter of Parris, afraid of Abigail, fakes that she is under a spell 4-putnam send her daughter Ruth with Tituba to conjure the death of her mother seven death kids...
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...“The Ultimate Value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival” (Aristotle). The Crucible was about the Salem witch trials which took place in 1692. Several young girls Cried that they were afflicted by witchcraft/ The devil, starting with Reverend Paris's daughter Betty. The afflicted girls accused people in the town of witchcraft, often choosing victims that were too poor to defend themselves or, wealth to take their land, livestock. Arthur miller he was born in October 1915 in New York City to a women's clothing manufacturer, who lost everything in the economic collapse of the 1930s. Living through young adulthood during the Great Depression, Miller was shaped by the poverty that surrounded him. The Depression demonstrated to the playwright the fragility and vulnerability of human existence in the modern era. The message that Arthur miller is Trying to portray through his character’s value life and will and go above and beyond just to save their own lives....
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...John Proctor refused to let his third son be baptised. The reasoning behind this is his hatred towards Reverend Paris. I am also stubborn in some ways. If there is homework i have to do i will most likely wait until the last minute to do it because i do not want to. This will always hurt my grade but i still continue to do it. Next, I am stubborn when doing chores. If there is work to be done around the house, I will do it but i will most likely not be happy and only do it when it is completely necessary Finally, I can relate to being an outcast with John Proctor. John Proctor would rarely attend church on Sundays. He would stay home to plow his fields, Which is considered a sin. Just like John, I have many outcast like characteristics. I have a couple of really close friends instead of a lot that i like to hang out with. I also enjoy going to my...
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...1. The nature of hysteria presents itself in the novel in a distinct way. The people of Salem become paranoid as word of “the Devil’s presence” spreads through the town. This paranoia unfortunately results in many innocent towns’ people being unjustly accused of witch craft by the group of young girls lead by Abigail Williams. Soon enough, the fear of the Devil takes over the lives of the people of Salem and slowly tears the town apart. While Goody Proctor keeps to her home on the farm, she is informed by Mary Warren that there were “fourteen people in jail” soon after the trials began (Miller 50). Abigail uses her influence and “innocence” in order to convince the court that so many people had been toiling with the Devil. Her manipulative ways only fuel the town’s speculations of more witchcraft present and prompts even more accusations. When Mary Warren comes home from another day of court, acting very off for her character, we learn that “there be thirty-nine [women arrested] now” of witchcraft (Miller 53). As the speculations, paranoia, and hysteria increase in the Salem community, so do the number of innocent civilians being accused of and arrested for witchcraft. All of this speculation, paranoia, and hysteria spreads simply from local gossip around town and the townsfolk easily giving into the young girls’ claims of witches. As the hype about witches increases, so does the panic and worry. This nature of hysteria can also be seen in our lives today in the public’s concerns...
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...During The Salem Witch Trials and The Rosewood Incident deaths, accusations, and many other crimes were committed. The Salem Witch Trials and The Rosewood Incident occurred in two different time periods, but had many things in common such as the crimes committed which were false accusations and the killing of innocent people. The Rosewood Incident was known as The Rosewood Massacre. It took pace in Rosewood, Florida in January 1923. The Rosewood Massacre started when a rumor was passed around about a women being raped by a black man. Before the rape a teacher was killed at a school. The man who was accused of killing the teacher was also accused of the rape. The man was also black. At least six blacks and two whites were killed during The...
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...hysteria was the Puritans belief against witchcraft. According to the background essay, “Puritans believed in the idea that God elects before birth who will go to Heaven and who will not.” They believed every word in the Bible. Once Satan took control of the sane, became a witch or a wizard. While being one of Satan's projects, could cause a lot of trouble such as murder. “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Doc A). This evidence helps explain the hysteria and the hanging because the Puritans did not like the devil, they believed in the Bible and the path God will take you. A second cause of the witch trial hysteria was Bridget Bishop and her belief that she could spread the bewitchments. On April 19, 1692, Bishop was examined by Samuel Parris. “As soon as she came near all (the afflicted girls) fell into fits… “She shook her head, and the affected were tortured” (Doc F). Those she passed were tortured, which made it look as if she was in control of the evil spirits. This evidence helps explain the hysteria and the hangings because Bishop lead everyone to believe that she was a witch. The third very important cause of the witch trial hysteria was Cotton Mather’s with the story that stopped all of the hangings was called the sermon and manuscript. “These evil spirits are all around” (Doc C). This piece of evidence shows that the spirits roamed freely on the streets. “The house of Christian, where our God has had his constant worship, have undergone the annoyance of evil spirits”...
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...In the book The Trial of God written by Elie Wiesel, an Innkeeper by the name of Berish and his daughter Hanna are the last 2 surviving Jewish people in Shamgorod Ukraine after a pogrom occurred. Three Jewish minstrels unintentionally end up in Shamgorod during Purim, offending Berish greatly, but after coming to an agreement Berish allows the three minstrels to stay free of charge in an exchange for performances from the three men for himself and Maria, a Christian waitress at his inn. After much conversation while trying to find a topic for the minstrels to perform they decide to put God on trial. The three minstrels were to be judges, Berish requested to be the prosecutor, and Maria the audience or the people. The minstrels have asked Berish several times about what happened during the pogrom to make him so angry at God to the point where he would like to have a trial against him, but he refuses to give them an answer. While they were all attempting to pick which one of them would have be the defense attorney for God during the trial, they suggest giving up and packing up their things to leave town in case the pogrom the priest had been warning about were to really happen that night. Berish then becomes extremely angry and explains that he wanted to have this trial for Hanna, who had suffered so much because of the pogrom and because of God himself for letting it happen. The Three minstrels ask him again what occurred but this time Maria tells them exactly what had happened...
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...which adhere to a code of ethics. None of these groups engage in the infamous practices of some modern "cults," such as isolating and brainwashing impressionable, lonely young people. Genuine Wiccans welcome sisters and brothers, but not disciples, victims or followers. Coven meetings include rituals, celebrations and magick (the "k" is to differentiate it from stage illusions). Wiccan magick is not at all like the immediate "effects" of fantasy novels, medieval demonology. It operates in the harmony with natural laws and is usually less impressive – though, it is effective. Several techniques are used to heal people, seek direction, or advance members' lives in particular ways. Positive goals are sought. To do curses and "evil spells" are offensive to practitioners of the Old Religion. In addition to its positive view of nature, many find Wicca more welcoming of women than other religion, with an importance on personal experience and a tolerance of other paths. As a whole, Wiccans value balance, with a respect for various complexities, seeing sexuality and embodiment as essentially positive, spiritual gifts. There is a sense of personal connection to the divine life source, which is open to contact through psychic power, mysticism or natural magick. Wiccans tend to be strong supporters of environmental protection, equal rights, global peace and religious freedom. Sometimes magick is used toward such goals. Wiccan beliefs do not include such Judeo-Christian concepts as original...
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