My lies have spread like wild fire and many people are about to be hung for it. ... Today I found out that Mary my 'so-called' friend has decided to testify against me! ... Not long after Danforth called us in again, this time telling us not to speak a work, and only face the front, as Elizabeth was approaching. ...
The reverend Hale asked Abigail "Did you call the Devil last Night?" Abigail response "I never called him! ... She soon realized her ability to usurp her new found power to gather support for her wild accusations. ... They believed everything Abigail told them so were willing and eager to support her wild bid to rid them of witches. ...
The unusual time of day, particularly in the end of the seventeenth century, "at sunset" (65), when Goodman Brown leaves his home and his wife Faith, who he describes as "a blessed angel" (65) and as his "sweet, pretty wife" (65), underlines that the destination of his journey has to be a sinful or at least an immoral place thus he calls himself a "wretch to leave her" (65). ... In the forest the arising darkness by "all the gloomiest trees" (66) and the unknown of the wild woods where "the devil himself" (66) could be right in front ...
William Griggs was called upon to give his opinion. ... In May, 1692, Governor William Phips called a special court to try the cases of those accused witches who had not confessed. ... With the exception of Giles Corey, who was tortured to death, the following 19 people were hanged: Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, George Burroughs, Mary parker, Martha Carrier, John Proctor, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Mary Easty, Wilmott Redd, Sarah Good, Margaret Scott, Elizabeth Howe, Samuel Wardwell Sr., Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, John Willard & Rebecca Nurse. ...
During that time period a large religious movement was sweeping the colonies and a book called Malleus Maleficarum, co-authored by German writers Heinrich Institoris and Jakob Sprenger, stated that, "All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable"; for the sake of fulfilling these lusts, women "consort even with devils." ... "Bridget Bishop, Sarah Good Rebecca Nurse Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How Sarah Wilds, George Burroughs, John Proctor, John Willard George Jacobs, Sr Martha Carrier Giles Corey, , pressed to death Martha Corey Farms Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Ann Pude...
These so-called witches have caused fear, interest, hatred, widespread panic, and a variety of other emotions in people during the medieval era. ... (Sprenger, 1) So if one did not believe in Catholicism they were considered heretics and could have also been called a witch, feeding into the witch craze. ... (Sprenger, 1) Without torture, there still would have been a few witch trials, because of the concern of heresy; however, because of the use of torture and the possible death sentence, the witch craze spread like wild fire. ...
Specialized doctors were called to the scene and not one could give an accurate diagnosis. ... This was called spectral evidence and was enough to put Good in jail. ... Sarah Wildes, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Rebecca Nurse, and Sarah Good are hanged. ... He called a moratorium on all witch trials. ...
There is no mention of the everyday activities of the town except to say that animals ran wild and land was up for grabs. ... Elizabeth proceeds to order John to go to court and call Abigail out on her lies and promiscuity. This scene is essential as it foreshadows a later scene in which John calls Abigail a whore. ...
Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Wilard. ... She has been called "an object for compassion rather than punishment." ... In fact, in response to an attempt by Minister Nicholas Noyes to elicit a confession, Good called out from the scaffolding, "You are a liar. ...
The girls that started going trough these fits called themselves the afflicted and the afflicted were urged to confess who was the person(s) involved in putting them in this terrible state. ... "On April 22 1692, Nehemiah Abbot, William and Deliverance Hobbes, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Mary Black, Sardin Wildes and Mary English were examined before Corwin and Hawthorne. ...
The girls that started going trough these fits called themselves the afflicted and the afflicted were urged to confess who was the person(s) involved in putting them in this terrible state. ... "On April 22 1692, Nehemiah Abbot, William and Deliverance Hobbes, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Mary Black, Sardin Wildes and Mary English were examined before Corwin and Hawthorne. ...
The amount of damage that one individual with selfish and narcissistic motives can do to a society is often underestimated. It only takes the greed and self-interest of one person to begin an irreversible process of decay. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, this is the dilemma that faces Salem. Early...
