Preview

Crucible Newspaper

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
385 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Crucible Newspaper
The Salem Times
ESTABLISHED 1684 SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS APRIL 11th, 1692

WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM!

REVEREND PARRIS CLUTCHES HIS BEWITCHED DAUGHTER BETTY.

DEMONS ON THE LOOSE•
BEtty Parris, daughter to Reverend Parris, fell ill last night with symptoms that speak to witchcraft.
Betty lay inert in her bed, only to wake screaming for her late mother and attempting to fly out of her bedroom window. Doctor Griggs evaluation was witchcraft to the dismay of Rev. Parris. It is believed that he spotted Betty, her cousin Abigail, and many other girls dancing in the woods-one of them naked! They were chanting around a fire with Parris’s maid Tituba! She may be questioned soon. Now poor Betty Parris is bewitched and the entire town of Salem fears for its life.

The Salem Times
ESTABLISHED 1684 SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS MAY 20th, 1692

WANTED! PICTURED ABOVE LEFT TO RIGHT: ELIZABETH PROCTOR, REBECCA NURSE, MARTHA COREY, GILES COREY, SARAH GOOD
MANY MORE HAVE BEEN ACCUSED AND ARE WANTED BY JUDGE DANFORTH

WANTED FOR WITCHCRAFT•
Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Martha and Giles Corey, and Sarah Good sound like the names of well-respected members of Salem. However, they and many others are wanted for witchcraft. They have been accused by others in the community who suspect them of trucking with the devil. The accused will be arrested today and brought to the jail where they will await their trial. Judge Danforth is quick with the pen on signing death warrants, to the dismay of the accused. Many fear that they too will be arrested and sent to jail. No one is safe from jail or witchcraft in Salem.

The Salem Times
ESTABLISHED 1684 SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS JUNE 28TH, 1692

JOHN PROCTOR A LECHER!

COURTROOM MADNESS•
John Proctor is a convicted lecher! A Salem Times source confirms that while in the courtroom, Mr. Proctor divulged an alarming confession-he is a
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Better Essays

    Salem Witch Trial vs Mccarthyism
    • 1208 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Salem Witch Trial vs Mccarthyism

    Incident turned into epidemic when the girls were pressured to name the person who had bewitched them. Before the winter snow melted other town residents exhibited strange symptoms and accusations of the crime of witchcraft spread like a contagion. "Sickness as a result of sin was a common theme for [Reverend] Parris that spring," Carlson writes (55). The fast trial for witchcraft was held in June, and by September no less than 19 were convicted and hanged for it. Legal proceedings were eventually halted and those who remained in jail on witchcraft charges were freed. Historians of the Salem tragedy are divided over the question of whose behavior needs to be explained: the town leaders or the supposedly bewitched accusers. A Fever in Salem focuses exclusively on the latter.…

    • 1208 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Crucible and Mary Warren
    • 1175 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The Crucible and Mary Warren

    4. Why does Rev. Parris become upset at the thought that Betty’s illness is a result of unnatural causes?…

    • 1175 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Rosalyn Schanzer's Witches: The Salem Witch Trials
    • 1024 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Rosalyn Schanzer's Witches: The Salem Witch Trials

    In Rosalyn Schanzer´s Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, extreme disorder in civilization took place due to massive amounts of unjust witch accusations. In early 1692, mass chaos struck Salem Village, Massachusetts. In a ravenous sprint to gain revenge and play a game of kill-or-be-killed, approximately 200 people were accused of witchcraft. 20 of these were executed. Families turned on each other, civilians accused one another of unimaginable things, and all because of two girls. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams who together accused a staggering portion of the innocent so called ´witches´. Many people question the motives of these two. It is hard to imagine two young girls under the care of such a high public figure…

    • 1024 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Salem Possessed Analysis
    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Salem Possessed Analysis

    On one instance Abigail Williams ran through the house with her arms outstretched, screaming. She also pulled logs from the fireplace and tossed them around the room. After this episode the number of afflicted girls grew from two to eight. When the afflicted girls were question about their behavior, they accused Sarah Good, Sarah Osbourne and Tibuta Indian of bewitching them. However, it wasn’t just young girls who accused these adults of bewitching them, once the erratic behavior began to sweep its way across Salem, it was Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne, the nearest members of the upper house of the provincial legislature, who began physical examinations and determined that Martha Cory was guilty of witchcraft and that she needed to be thrown in jail with the other women. Abigail Williams also affiliated herself with the accusations when she accused George Burroughs, a former minister in the Village, of being the mastermind behind the entire breakout. However, perhaps on of the saddest victims of false accusation was Sarah Good’s four-year-old daughter Dorcas Good, who was sent to Boston Prison where she was chained up for nine months. It can therefore be seen that the vast majority of accused witches were women. Most history books pass over the fact quickly or conclude that witches were scapegoats for tensions that…

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    American History to 1887
    • 1148 Words
    • 5 Pages

    American History to 1887

    Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum's Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft redefined the standard for the possibilities social history offers to understand the events and people of early America. Through a painstaking and creative look at local records such as legal records, the Salem Village record book, the minister's book, and tax records Boyer and Nissenbaum discovered a long-standing pattern of contentious behavior of which the witchcraft accusations in 1692 was just one episode. Their analysis provides an invaluable insight into the social history of New England generally, and the factions of Salem Village that led to the tragic events of 1692, in particular.…

    • 1148 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Crucible Study Guide ~
    • 334 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Crucible Study Guide ~

    2. What is the true reason why Reverend Parris is upset over Betty’s condition? Explain.…

    • 334 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Thesis Paper on the Crucible T
    • 1103 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Thesis Paper on the Crucible T

    John Proctor: "God in heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor". John is a man of strong moral beliefs any way he or she look at him, concerned only for the safety of his family and personal welfare. He cares of nothing for the beliefs of any of the other people in the town and what his supervisor which is the Reverend, thinks either. After trying to avoid involvement in the witch trials he is later prosecuted for witchery and sentenced to hang. John trys to avoid any involvement in the Salem witch trials. His reason for doing so is to protect his image because he is afraid he will be committed of adultery with Abigail Williams. Following these events he trys to save everyone's lives by admitting to this horrible offense adultery and ends up losing the trial along with his life. He did have a chance to live but instead of signing away his name and his soul to keep his life, he wanted to die honorably with his friends not without a name, a soul, and with guilt. "John Proctors decision to die is reasonable and believable". Reverend Parris, the Salem minister and Proctors immediate supervisor, which says " there is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning." "The church in theocratic Salem is identical with the state and the community and will surely crumble if unquestioning obedience falters in the least." Proctor, on the other hand, "has come to regard his self as a king of fraud," as long as he remains obedient to an authority which he cannot respect. In other words he believes that the cannot be his true self when he has to abide by lies and not by his morals. He thinks there is to much mention of hell in God's church and about the dangers to the community to implicit in all this talk of witch craft. He is caught in a web of moral dilemmas involving not only his own fate but that of his wife, his friends, and the entire Salem community. "John Proctor is the individual who must decide weather or not he will assert himself against an…

    • 1103 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Abigail Williams in the Crucible
    • 361 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Abigail Williams in the Crucible

    In act three, Abigail shows more of her evil ways. John Proctor and Mary Warren, an accused woman, enter the court room. A deal was made that if John helped Mary, Elizabeth would be excused from the witch trials as well. Governor Danforth makes the girls come into the court room. Reverend Parris points out that the girls…

    • 361 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Powerful Essays

    Salem Witch Trials and the Bill of Rights
    • 2692 Words
    • 11 Pages

    Salem Witch Trials and the Bill of Rights

    Betty and Abigail continued experiencing these bizarre “fits”. They screamed, threw things, made strange sounds, and contorted their bodies into strange positions. Rumors in the village began to spread of witchcraft. Shortly thereafter an 11-year-old girl named Ann experience similar symptoms. On…

    • 2692 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Powerful Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    What Is The Puritans Belief In Superstition
    • 61 Words
    • 1 Page

    What Is The Puritans Belief In Superstition

    In conclusion, the Puritan’s belief in superstition whenever an answer was not distinguishable led to the stories of Abigail Williams’ and Betty Parris’, two young innocent girls who started the witchcraft craze, to be more credibly accepted. If it was believed that someone was possessed by the devil, this caused people to behave differently, and this belief helped start mass hysteria.…

    • 61 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Internal Conflict In The Crucible Essay
    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Internal Conflict In The Crucible Essay

    Mrs. Putnam is very paranoid about her daughter, Ruth, and Parris’s daughter, Betty. She does not want there to be any other reason than witchcraft to be the reason her Ruth and Betty are ill. Mrs. Putnam quickly replies with certainty back to Parris, “I’d not call it sick; the Devil’s touch is heavier than sick. It’s death, y’know, it’s death drivin’ into them, forked and hoofed” (Miller 13). This shows she is so paranoid and wants there to be a…

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Discrimination and The Salem Witch Trials
    • 350 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Discrimination and The Salem Witch Trials

    Where and when it all began:The Salem Witch Trials began on February 29, 1692 (when complaints were made against Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne...All three women were being accused of witchcraft...) and the final hanging was on September 22, 1692. Although it was called the Salem Witch Trials, many of the persecutions and victims were from other parts of Massachutess. (in other words, the Trials happened in more places than Salem).…

    • 350 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Crucible
    • 1728 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The Crucible

    Throughout the play, a stifling atmosphere of fear lingers over Salem. This apprehension is caused by the ever-growing possibility of being accused of witchcraft. During this period, even the mentioning of the word “witchcraft” struck a chord of uneasiness into people. Punishment for this crime was severe and “a hanging error” (18). Witchcraft is closely associated with hanging and being accused meant one is on his way to death. In addition, witchcraft, according to Judge Danforth, is considered “ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime”(100). Only “the witch and the victim” (100) may bear witness to the crime and “we must rely upon the victims [to] [...] testify”(100). The victims, in this case, are the children. Consequently, with such an unjust method of court, the townspeople’s fears are further augmented. Not only do they fear being accused, they fear…

    • 1728 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    John Proctor Eulogy Analysis
    • 827 Words
    • 4 Pages

    John Proctor Eulogy Analysis

    Today we grieve the sad death of a man that is known throughout this village of Salem. He was a farmer, a husband, a father of two, and to me, a good friend: John Proctor. He was hanged next to my sweet Rebecca, and after speaking about my dear wife, I knew it must only be right if I share some words about John.…

    • 827 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Salem Witch Trials In The 18th Century
    • 818 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Salem Witch Trials In The 18th Century

    The Salem witch trials began when the 9-year-old daughter of reverend Samuel Parris and his niece were diagnosed as being under Satan’s influence. The Salem witch trials were an inhumane and unfair series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, also four other accused and an infant child died in prison.…

    • 818 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics