If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? ... Because of this, she claims that "when things started coming to me, they came to me as voices. ... This novel does not deal so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name for the Devil."44 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne commits adultery with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. ... It is of common belief that Mistress Hibbins, the town witch, often dances in the forest with the Devil.49 One day, she calls to Hester, saying "there will be merry company...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Although no one knows why, one day in February 1692, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began slipping into trances, cowering in corners, blurting out nonsensical phrases, and worst of all, collapsing into shrieking like epileptic like fits. ... "I have very often been most grievously tortured by the apparition of Sarah Good, who most dreadfully afflicted me, and almost choking me to death. ... Sarah Good like Sarah Osborne denied the accuses. ... During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rats and a man n black. ... said "What sin has God found in me unrepeated that he should...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

"Although no one knows why, one day in February 1692, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began slipping into trances, cowering in corners, blurting out nonsensical phrases, and worst of all, collapsing into shrieking like epileptic like fits. ... "I have very often been most grievously tortured by the apparition of Sarah Good, who most dreadfully afflicted me, and almost choking me to death. ... Sarah Good like Sarah Osborne denied the accuses. ... During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rats and a man n black. ... When Rebecca was told of her accusation she said "What sin h...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Tituba, like Good, was very poor. ... She said that she "was more like to be bewitched than she was a witch." ... Sarah Good and Osborn would have me hurt the children but I would not . . . " So according to Tituba there were still witches out there bewitching their innocent children. ... Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. ... They were afraid that they would be the next people to become a possessed victim of their mysterious black magic. ...

• Word Count: 2568
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

She said that she "was more like to be bewitched than she was a witch." ... Sarah Good and Osborn would have me hurt the children but I would not . . . " So according to Tituba there were still witches out there bewitching innocent children. ... Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. ... Everyone jumped at the mention of a witch, afraid that they would be the next person to become a possessed victim of their mysterious black magic. ... The Salem Witchcraft Trials were completely outrageous, convicting women with no solid evidence other than a villager saying that they themselves had seen th...

• Word Count: 2567
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The language of the play is almost biblical, and Abigail seems like a biblical character "a Jezebel figure, driven only by sexual desire and a lust for power. ... Abigail is an orphan and an unmarried girl; she thus occupies a low rung on the Puritan Salem social ladder (the only people below her are the slaves, like Tituba, and social outcasts). ... Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the woods at night. Tituba Reverend Parris's black slave from Barbados. ...

• Word Count: 4038
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Miller was fined and given a thirty day s pended jail sentence because he spoke out like John Proctor in The Crucible (Griffin 7). ... A political jou alist might have summed up Arthur Miller's achievement like this: he had helped to rally the moderates against the forces of extreme right-wing reaction (Elsom 140). ... In Salem, Massachusetts, a black slave woman and twelve teenage girls were caught dancing around a bubbling cauldron in the woods, despite the fact that dancing was not allowed by the Puritans. ...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School