...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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...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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...was thought to be chaotic. Religion is something that was essential in one’s life and unfortunately some people began to take advantage of that idea, such as Reverend Parris in “The Crucible.” Reverend Parris, the Prime Minister of Salem used God to give himself more power and was willing to do anything in order to maintain his status in society, which didn’t portray such...
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...When you hear the word witch, you might think of an old green lady riding a broom with a wicked laugh. During the witch craze, you could be accused of witchcraft if you were female, male, rich, poor, old, young, if you didn’t follow the same rules as everyone else, or even if you had a disagreement with someone. The most popular witch hunt was the Salem Witch Trials that occurred in Colonial Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials could be viewed as the catalyst of the reformed American Legal System, as they went on the words of children. This paper will show what happened, why it happened and the results and impacts it left in America today. In 1692, the citizens of Salem, Massachusetts turned on each other and accused hundreds of their own neighbors of being witches. The puritans’ goals for when they moved to America was to have a model community where everyone followed what the bible said. Many of the citizens believed “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Exodus 22:18 (Wood, Chapman, and Morton, pg. 30). A group of young women who were said to be possessed by the devil, accused many people mainly older women of poor standing of practicing witch craft. Tituba, a Native American slave from Barbados, practiced voodoo and people thought she was the reason their kids were acting strange since she was a maid in the pastors’ house and his daughter and niece were the first ones to start acting strange. There could have been many reasons it happened: religious...
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...you come to think to question yourself that you’re either a good or bad person for possibly the littlest thing? Think about it. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is the most despicable character because she obtains a power by starting to accuse innocent people of witchcraft, was involved in lechery with John Proctor, and ran away with her uncle’s money that she stole from a safe. To begin with, Abigail Williams may just be a young woman, but she is capable of many things. For instance, her and Mercy Lewis ran away with Reverend Parris’s money. They ran away, because they wanted to avoid getting accused for any sort of witchcraft, especially after what happened in the forest. In act four, Parris states to Danforth,”...my strongbox is broken into” (4.207*208), the only person who knew where his strongbox was Abigail, since she lived with him. This shows one of the many things that Abigail is capable of. In addition, Parris knew what Abigail was capable of and what she had on the...
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... In the Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village. They claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused a lot of women of being witches. More than 200 people were accused of being a witch. They were doing the devil's work and 20 of them were executed. Similarity and difference of the Salem Witch Trials and the Muslims. Muslims are being accused of something they did not do. In the Crucible They are being accused of doing the terrorist attacks. In the Salem Witch Trials, women were being accused of being witches. They compare by both of them are being accused.They both are being accused of something they did not do. People are accusing people that had nothing to with that crime. They just blame people so they would be in the trial that did not commit that crime. The girls wanted to accuse those people so they won't be alone in being the witches they are. They wanted to accuse the Muslims because people are religious. Some people does not like other religion. Some people think they should be only one religion. They accuse Muslims because they are a different religion than the other religions in the U.S. So that why people want to accuse the other religions because they don’t like it. So many were being accused of something they did not do but the girls wanted them to be accused so they will be on trial. In the Crucible “Abigail accuses Tituba she made them do it.”(Miller page 1283) ...
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...Elizabethan Era Witchcraft, Witches, and Witch Hunts During the Elizabethan Era, the printing press had been invented and this helped spread printed copies of Bibles and other religious books. These books had contained ideas of witches and witchcraft. This had helped promote the idea of witch hunts and people became obsessed with finding witches. The supernatural belief of witches, witchcraft, and witch hunts had spread like wildfire across Europe and later to the newly made American colonies. Most people connect witches and witchcraft to the popular Salem Witchcraft Trials. Ideas such as alchemy, astronomy, and magic had also spurred the likeliness of witch hunts. Witches were blamed for events that could not be explained. The Bubonic Plague was blamed on witches. Witches were also blames for the occurrence of other terrible diseases, animals unexpectedly dying, crops dying, a bad harvest, houses burning from fires, and food or milk curdling. Witches were associated with a broomstick. People thought that witches used the broomstick to fly, which could explain how witches could quickly travel great distances. They were portrayed as an old crone or a hag and lived alone in a wooden house/cabin. Accused witches were usually women who didn’t have anyone to vouch for them, like a dominate male figure in their life. These witches included women who were old, poor, unprotected, single or widowed, and kept a pet very close to them. Anyone who kept a cat, frog, pig,...
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...THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALSIntroductionThe Salem witch trials have been drawing attention of researchers and historians for manycenturies due to the unexplained nature of the events and their continuance. From the 17thcenturyuntil now scientists present and explore different possible reasons which caused the witch hysteriain Salem and brought harm to many people.The Salem witch trials were a series of prosecutions which began in Salem town, stateMassachussetts, in 1692, and the consequences of the trials lasted till 1697. In 1692, two little girlsstarted to demonstrate weird and frightening behavior including convulsions and hallucinations.Very quickly several other girls and some adults developed the same symptoms, and the people ofthe town decided these were caused by witches. The “afflicted” named people who, in their pointof view, were witches and were torturing them in different ways. The presumed witches were testedwith the help of “witch tests” and most of them appeared to be guilty of witchcraft. The “witches”were arrested, and about twenty people were executed or died in prison as the result1.Beginning from the 17th century and until today, scientists and researchers from differentfields offered different approaches to the issue of the Salem witch trials and claimed differentfactors were the cause for such massive hysteria. The main approaches include psychological,social and economic factors, epidemic outbreak, illness, or poisoning. All these approaches...
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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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