relaxation of regulatory constraints on traditional financial intermediaries—banks‚ mutual funds‚ insurance companies‚ and brokerages—products and services were becoming increasingly similar. Banks and insurance companies were selling mutual funds‚ and Fidelity and Schwab were offering a full line of banking products and services‚ although unbundled and separately priced. Investment advice‚ once the hallmark of full-service brokers‚ was being offered by almost everyone in some manner. (See Exhibit 1 for
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The Crucible: Try to distinguish as carefully as possible what motives each of the ‘pro-witchcraft’ group: Parris‚ Mr and Mrs Putnam and Hale. How does each contribute to the web of supposition? In what way or ways does each lay claim to the “the clean white hand of moral duty”? Are they justified in doing so? Act one reserves no unknown agenda’s in the sudden hysteria of Satanism plagued by the community of Salem. With this‚ the audience is introduced to certain characters that retain the
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damnation and hell in order to strike fear into his parishioners. Why is Thomas Putnam willing to speak of witchcraft? Thomas Putnam demonstrates that his motivation involves his longstanding grudges against others; the witchcraft trials give Putnam an opportunity to exact revenge against others‚ and‚ as will later be shown‚ to profit economically from others’ executions. How does Mrs. Putnam know what Ruth was doing in the woods? ... Why does Abigail "admit" that
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Meet Ann Putnam Jr. at 12 years old who played a very important part in the witch trials of 1692 as one of three afflicted kids.Anna was the daughter of the Salem witch trials leader. She was born on October 18‚1679 in Salem Massachusetts‚she was one of three children‚ Thomas and Ann were her siblings and she was the eldest. In March‚1692 she proclaimed to be affiliated. At this time‚ Ann’s Mother Ann was still mourning the death of her daughter and she claimed that later she had been attacked
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then Mrs. Putnam comes to the conclusion that Betty is bewitched and cannot hear the Lord’s name without pain. I asked if Parris consulted the legal authorities or called a town meeting before he asked Reverend Hale to uncover the demons in Salem. Rebecca feared that a witch-hunt will spark even more disputes. Putnam demanded Parris to have Hale search for signs of witchcraft. I reminded Putnam that he cannot command Parris and that Salem doesn’t grant votes on the basis of wealth. Putnam replied
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with john proctor. 4) What information about Thomas Putnam does Arthur Miller tell us in his expository aside? What does Ann Putnam claim in the play about her dead babies? Thomas Putnam is a wealthy man and that the village should look or appreciate him more. Her baby’s were murdered by a women. 5) Before the arrival of John Hale‚ what are some of the subjects for petty disagreement among John Proctor‚ Giles Corey‚ Thomas Putnam‚ and Samuel Parris? They were disagreeing about the
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One may find Abigail Williams‚ The Putnams‚ and Mary Warren to blame. Abigail was manipulative‚ The Putnams were very jealous‚ and Mary Warren was weak-will. Society can be destroyed by powerful forces of jealousy‚ hypocrisy and hysteria. Jealousy can lead you to do terrible things. Jealousy played a big role in who was to blame for the deaths in Salem. The Putnams were a small family‚ they had seven out of eight children and none survived but one. Mrs. Putnam was a very jealous person when it came
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Act I 1. What does the “spareness” of the Puritan setting reveal about the lives of the townspeople of Salem? The setting mirrors the Puritans’ beliefs. The lack of ornamentation demonstrates the Puritan aversion to vanity and frivolous pursuits. 2. Explain the significance of the forest to the Puritans. It was the epitome of evil. As far as the Puritans were concerned‚ the Native Americans were murderous heathens. The animals periodically attacked. There was no wilderness in England‚ so the
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Salem witch trials spread across massachusetts like a plague. A war started by jealousy‚ carried on by reputation and ended in tragedy. In the novel‚ the Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ the Parris family‚ the Procter Family‚ Giles Corey‚ and the Putnam family can be compared and contrasted to their real life personas. Miller demonstrates a rather dramatic story of a group of families pulled together and ripped apart due to a jealous little girl. But his has some big differences to reality. Tituba
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herself. The grudge between the Proctors and Abigail is not the only one themed in The Crucible. For example‚ Giles Corey has a grudge with Thomas Putnam because Putnam had accused Jacobs of witchcraft so that he could buy his land. Giles accuses Putnam of this by saying‚ "Thomas Putnam is reaching out for land!" (Miller‚ pg 958) He knows that Putnam is the only one in Salem who can afford Jacobs’s land if it were to be auctioned off. These are just two of the many examples of the role that grudges
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