mentally unstable when she was charged with witchcraft. She confessed and gave the names of nine other witches. The judges accepted her confession instead of dismissing her as insane. On April 21‚ 1692‚ Nehemiah Abbot‚ William and Deliverance Hobbs‚ Sarah and Edward Bishop‚ Mary Ester‚ Mary Black‚ Sarah Wilds‚ and Mary English were arrested because of Abigail Hobbs’s accusations. (http://www.paralumun.com) Bridget Bishop had been charged with witchcraft twelve years ago; she had been tried but not
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In Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ many of the main characters go through drastic changes that lead to their demise. In the 17th century in Salem‚ Massachusetts a major conflict has arisen. All the young teenage girls are accusing people of witchcraft which causes a chain reaction of pointed fingers at other "witches". Over the many different series of events‚ John Proctor has changed the most. Throughout the play‚ John Proctor attempts to save his wife‚ his identity‚ and his land; while going
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ many people are accused wrongly of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Whether it may be fear‚ anxiety‚ or even greed‚ these characters lie and accuse others of witchcraft. The characters: Tituba‚ Abigail‚ and Goody Putnam display each of those motives when accusing others of witchery. Characters are motivated differently to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft Tituba accuses a few women of witchery because of the fear from being executed. Her fear
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new thoughts‚ knowledge‚ philosophy‚ and so on. However‚ dark histories‚ stories‚ and tales lie within this bountiful time. The belief in witches and witchcraft was supposed to have been an accepted truth of life in Shakespeare’s era but instead they were executed. Many people‚ intellectual and commoner alike‚ spoke for the existence of witchcraft seeing its demonic ways as something palpable. Yet others opposed it‚ saying that it was a mere fancy and fantasy of man’s imagination. Life for mostly
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seek reparations from grudges. Hysteria suspends the rules of daily life and allows the acting out of every dark desire and hateful urge under the charade of righteousness. In "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller‚ the hysteria due to the paranoia of witchcraft causes Abigail to lie in order to save herself‚ Danforth to ruin the community‚ and Proctor to be convicted of witchery. The hysteria surrounding the witchtrials causes Abigail to lie in order to save herself. She is affected by the hysteria because
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occurred throughout the late 1600s‚ created tensions within the New England community. Such tensions were the cause of the prevalent hysteria concerning witchcraft in the 1680s and 1690s. The disastrous consequences of these tensions included the execution of hundreds of innocent civilians during the Salem witch trials. Accusations of witchcraft often targeted widowed‚ middle-aged women with few children‚ and of low social standing. Sometimes‚ the accused women were those who had acquired possession
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The Crucible By Matt Flynn In Arthur Miller’s partially fictionalized novel‚ “The Crucible”‚ where this story takes place in the late sixteen hundreds and is based on the Salem Witch Trials. This story is told in many different forms such as in books‚ plays and movies‚ most are different in some way. The Crucible’s main themes were surrounded by the ideas of “good vs evil” and “fear vs logic”. In “The Crucible”‚ the main plot is surrounded by John Proctor and Abigail Williams‚ as they are having
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman is a book dealing with witchcraft in Colonial New England. The author is Carol F. Karlsen‚ who is currently a professor in the history department at the University of Michigan specializing in American women‚ early American social and cultural studies; she received her Ph D. from Yale University in 1980. In this book the author explores the social construction of witchcraft in Colonial New England between the years 1620 through 1725. The thesis of the book is to
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witches were the obvious targets. Who were the people accused of being Elizabethan Witches? Women were those most often accused of being witches! There were 270 Elizabethan witch trials of 247 were women and only 23 were men! Those accused of witchcraft were generally: * Old * Poor * Unprotected * Single women or widows ‘cause most of them kept pets for company - their ’familiars’) During the Elizabethan era men were all-powerful. Women had few rights and were expected to obey
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hope that Elizabeth proctor would die. When Betty wouldn’t wake up from her sleep while John came to visit her‚ so then Abby tried to make her move with him. John stated that he didn’t want her no more towards Abby. Once the town starts to talk of witchcraft Abby blames Tituba for the whole thing. She explains that Tituba made all the girls go out into the woods and dance. Abby will do anything to keep herself out of the blame. Once the accusations start Abby gains power of the other girls. As Abby
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