...Approximately one hundred and fifty witches were hung, for performing acts of sorcery, without a fair trial (History staff). Those who were killed includes men, women, and unfortunately children. Salem, a colony located in Massachusetts, was where many innocent people were killed for being thought of using witchcraft. Salem was not the only one killing people for witchcraft, before Salem hundreds of women and men were burned at the stake in Europe and neighboring countries. The Salem Witch trials has proven that words can be stronger when fear is involved, the enforcement of the constitution is crucial, and how learning to communicate with the person at trial it more beneficial than staying close minded. When fear is a factor between life or death it makes things very bias. 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts a witch, Tituba an Indian slave, was accused of...
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...The cauldron The Crucible a play written by Arthur Miller is a story about the the witch trials in Salem. The theme of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, is that dishonesty started and perpetuated the witch trials, while honesty brought about their end . The girls started the witch trials in Salem. Lies from the accused kept the trials going. The Honest brought about their end. The girls started the witch trials in Salem with their dishonesty and lies. It started when Abigail and Parris talking about, why they (the girls) were dancing in the woods. Then Proctor shows up and Abigail tells him the truth, Betty starts to scream and hale shows up Abigail tells him that Tituba’s a witch. “She sends her spirits on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayers”(Miller 46). In this quote...
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...witches. After they have been diagnosed other females started mimicking the same symptoms that the two girls had. The young girls accused a caribbean slave, Tituba, and other women of using witch spells on them. Years latter it was revealed they were lying, and Abigail Williams were the mastermind behind the lies of the young girls being bewitched. The people Abigail Williams accused of being witches were brought to the magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne and being questioned while the teens who lied about them being...
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...Arthur Miller, depicts the overall history of the Salem Witch Trials, it does have historical inaccuracies within the characters and their relationships that change the way we perceive history. Witchcraft has been present since the Paleolithic period but it began to show up in colonial America in the middle of the 17th century. It became a capital offense as far back as 1642. Shortly after becoming a law, the first execution 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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...Claudia Vazquez English 10/23/13 Critical Lens Someone once said “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing” meaning that when a good person decides to do nothing evil will succeed. For example if someone was getting bullied and an onlooker decide to do nothing than evil would prosper. This quote id false because there in no way to know who is “good” and who is “bad” due to everyone having a different understanding of what is good and what is bad. Some people believe that those who don’t go to church are bad but in reality many people who don’t go to church have better morals than those who do go to church yet the fact they don’t makes them seem bad. Another way this quote is false is that if someone were truly “good” then they wouldn’t stand around and watch as evil prospered. One piece of literature that proves this quote true is The Crucible by Arthur Miller through his use of characterization and conflict. As stated above the quote “Evil Triumphs when good men do nothing” is false due to the elusive from in which “good men” is used. In The Crucible Arthur Millers’ use of characterization proves this quote false. The Crucible is a play about the domino affect which wild accusations about...
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...trying to get ahead without stopping to think, why? Why is it that we as a species have found that the best way to survive is to get ahead of others? Can we not work together to bring everyone up? This idea that survival is based on winning has been ingrained into our minds. Society has forced the individual to act alone and do whatever it takes to win the game of life. People tend to have a sense of superiority or self righteousness. They act as though they are morally above the general population. If this was true, then very few people could relate to the feeling of walking past a person in need. This evolution of self righteousness has been prevalent in society for centuries. Arthur Miller gives a look back in time to the Salem witch trials where many of today’s problems and faults are still occurring. His take on the early colonial life in Salem, Massachusettes shows the extreme levels of self righteousness, discrimination, and biased gender roles, showing how society has changed only slightly. Self righteousness is a curse. It plagues many people. They feel as though they have a sort of superiority over others. It can make them do crazy things like accuse others of terrible crimes, or completely ignore their own problems, blaming them on others. When Judge Danforth, a character in Miller’s, The Crucible, was asked to rethink his decision of executing several people, his self righteousness became apparent. “Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part reprieve or pardon...
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...Beginning in February of 1692, over 200 townsfolk were accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Of the over 200 accused witches, nineteen were hanged, one was crushed to death under the weight of stones whilst many more died in jail. The trials while terrifying helped todays judicial system by banning the use of spectral evidence against people. Spectral evidence is defined as the accused appearance in spirit or spectral shape to the witness in a dream while the physical body of the accused was elsewhere (Craker). Relying on physical evidence, allows the accused a fair and just trial. The accused in Salem were subjected to horrific events powered by belief, and hysteria, with minimal evidence. The Puritan belief in witchcraft...
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...Salem witch trials This research paper is to show the events of the Salem witch trail of 1692 and how it affected American literature. Authors who were inspired to tell the story have written multiple books. The authors wrote about how the resident turned on each other to get what they wanted, and the strict supersticous religious practice they followed. And to tell the personal conflicts that had existed throughout the community. The Salem witch trail began in February 1692 due to a group of teenage girls playing fortune-telling game to see whom their future husband would be. They were caught in the act of fortunetelling game witch is not acceptable in there puritan society. After these event Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam Jr, Mary Walcott and Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, Mary Warren and Elizabeth Booth started to show symptoms. The symptom the girls started to experience fits, hiding under furniture, uncontrollable pain and experiencing fever. In February Samuel Parris called for doctor to come and check if there was anything medically wrong with the girls. The doctor was unable to find any problems with the girls. The doctor later suggested that The girls might be bewitched. The girls later began to name people who they believed bewitched them. They named the social outcast of Salem. They accused three women, the three women they accused were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborn and a slave named Tituba. These women were seen as easy target to...
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...didn’t know before. This is a big disadvantage for The Crucible story because it was taking place along time ago though both the stories are still similar. The main similar things you would notice from the two stories is the witchcraft world both the stories include those two things. One of the stories doesn’t really accept witchcraft and the other story accepts It with open arms. The story that doesn’t accept the witchcraft world is The Crucible because in Harry Potter It’s normal to them. Now in The Crucible that really isn’t normal to them and really I say It’s not that normal to them because in The Crucible Paris says, “you will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba”. Basically Paris is really threatening to whip Tituba over the whole witch trial thing, were as in Harry Potter if Harry or any other character in the story were to see a witch or any other magical thing it would really be normal to them. Now in the Harry Potter story they wouldn’t really freak out unless the witch was just attacking them,though I must say both the stories think of witches as sneaky so there’s one similar thing from the two outside of both of them dealing with the witchcraft world. Now as for the characters in The Crucible and Harry Potter there’s some similar things there from Abigail to Ron Weasley. The thing they really have in common is that both of them can really tear apart a relationship and both of them can make someone feel distant from them in a...
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...(TW) 2. “The Salem tragedy, which is about to begin in these pages developed from a paradox” Act 1, pg. 6 3. “…slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back” Act 1, pg. 8 The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a story about the tragedies that occur in Salem. I would have to say that tragedy is the big theme of the play because it informs the reader about a true historical time period where many innocent lives have been sacrificed due to witchcraft. These characters enlisted in this play were once actual people. They obviously are now historical characters used to explain this one major theme, tragedy. Their lives best describe the tragedies that occur during the Salem witch trials. This introductory quote is very important because it tells you what the story is mainly going to be about- which are the tragedies of Salem. (DI) I have always wondered what my life would have been...
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...on your knowledge of the drama. Write a response on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Where does Tituba think that the Devil is going to take her? 2. Give one example of how Abigail shows her dishonesty in this act. 3. What effect do the trials have on Salem? Use three details from the drama to support your answer. 4. When first arrives at the Salem jail, Danforth complains, “There is a prodigious stench in this place.” How might this line be read to mean something besides a comment on the smell? 5. How is Giles Corey’s character reflected in his death? Use one detail from the drama to support your response. 6. What qualities does Proctor find within himself that prevent him from at last saving himself and signing the confession? Use details from the text to support your response. 7. Explain how Proctor is right or wrong for refusing to sign the confession. Use details to support your response. 8. A tragic hero’s fate, according to Aristotle, inspires pity and horror. Name the tragic hero in The Crucible, and describe how his or her fate inspires both pity and horror. 9. People accused of being Communists had a difficult time getting jobs; some even moved out of the United States in order to try to resume normal lives. How is Proctor’s situation like that of the people accused of Communist activities? 10. Based on the conversation involving Tituba, Sarah Good, and Herrick at the beginning of Act IV of The Crucible, what obsession of the day...
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...In Arthur Miller’s book, The Crucible it provides realistic information about the Salem witch trials. Miller relates the Salem witch trails to the 1950’s issue of accusations of Communism in the United States. Within this book our understanding of the witch trials increases and we can relate the issues to problems world wide. In The Crucible many characters are hung for being a witch. There was not enough accurate evidence to say that there cases where fair. Current events can relate to this situation if there is a place where there are unfair and false accusations against innocent people. Parris the Reverend of Salem, is responsible for bring the witch trials to his town. This also affects his reputation in Salem, which he is very concerned about. The amount of power he has shifts over the course of the play along with the trust of the citizens of Salem. Throughout the book many people become frustrated with Parris which leads him to put fear in himself. Parris is now responsible for the tragedies in Salem because he brought the witch trials to Salem. Many people turn on him throughout the whole entire play. Parris’s reputation in the town of Salem and his position within the...
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...The Crucible By Arthur Miller ACT I SETTING: A bedroom in Reverend Samuel Parris’ house, Salem, Massachusetts, in the Spring of the year, 1692. As the curtain rises we see Parris on his knees, beside a bed. His daughter Betty, aged 10, is asleep in it. Abigail Williams, 17, ENTERS. ABIGAIL: Uncle? Susanna Wallcott’s here from Dr. Griggs. PARRIS: Oh? The Doctor. (Rising.) Let her come, let her come. ABIGAIL: Come in Susanna. (Susanna Walcott, a little younger than Abigail, enters.) PARRIS: What does the doctor say, child? SUSANNA: Dr. Griggs he bid me come and tell you, Reverend sir, that he cannot discover no medicine for it in his books. PARRIS: Then he must search on. SUSANNA: Aye, sir, he have been searchin’ his books since he left you, sir, but he bid me tell you, that you might look to unnatural things for the cause of it. PARRIS: No-no. There be no unnatural causes here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mister Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine, and put out all thought of unnatural causes here. There be none. SUSANNA: Aye, sir. He bid me tell you. PARRIS: Go directly home and speak nothin’ of unnatural causes. SUSANNA: Aye, sir, I pray for her. (Goes out.) ABIGAIL: Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you’d best go down and deny it yourself. The parlor’s packed with people, sir.--I’ll sit with her. PARRIS: And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing ...
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...Luis Rodriguez Historical Fiction HIST 1301-2H2 For my 14th birthday my grandmother gave me a diary. I never used it until now. It was just pieces of strings that connected sheets of paper together. It was nothing special or anything that looked fancy. She wanted me to practice my writing since it “imitated a peasant’s work”. How considerate of her to be so kind about helping me with something so utterly useless to me. It was a miracle for her to even give me anything since she is so blinded by all the money she has. She calls “part of the family”, which is a lie since it’s a miracle if I even receive dinner most of the time. My grandmother spent most of the money on expensive luxuries like, clothes, wines, and furniture. I hated my life here in France. Since I had no support in any kind in this land I decided to smuggle myself out of this home. I have many reasons to leave this place, let’s start from the beginning. I, Antoinette Cherubin, was born in February 29, 1650. My mother, Liliane Cherubin, died when she was giving birth to me. Nobody knew what killer her. She was a very slender woman and my grandmother always told me that slender women like her weren’t meant to have babies. My Father, Alexandre Cherubin, I never got too met. He went off to fight for France in the war versus the Spanish a few years before I was born. Nobody knows if he died in battle or went somewhere to live another life away from us. My grandmother (my mom’s mom) never met Alexandre. I never talked...
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