The Crucible is a play that focuses on the awfulness of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behaviors that can result from dark desires and secret agendas. A jealous girl, Abigail Williams, is accused anyone and everyone of witchcraft, including her secret lover’s wife. These accused citizens were given unfair trials, and many of them were hanged without questioning. David Calvert is a man who is believed to be Jon Venables, the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger when in fact, he is not. This belief arose when, eight years after the murder, Venables got a new identity. Angered people had no idea where Venables was or what his new name was. Since Calvert and looks similar and is around the same age as Venables, he was a reasonable suspect.
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In The Crucible, people were being accused and were accusing others left and right; it was chaos. Just a few times this happened was when Abigail said that Tituba made her and the girls participate in witchcraft and when the girls, as part of their charade, began shouting out random names of citizens of Salem that they “saw” with the devil. The many women they named were brought to court and questioned soon after. Since nobody knew where the real Jon Venables was or what his new name was, David Calvert’s neighbors began to think that he was Jon Venables, simply because they look similar and are around the same age. A Facebook page was made to warn people to stay away from David Calvert because he was apparently the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger. The false accusations ruined all of the lives of these people who were innocent to these …show more content…
In The Crucible, Giles Corey, uneasy and skeptical, told Reverend Hale that he thought his wife was likely to be involved in witchcraft because she reads books late at night. Later, his wife was taken away and charged with witchcraft. Giles regretted that he had ever said anything, and only ever said anything about his wife because he was scared for his own safety. When Tituba was questioned, she was confused and didn’t know why she was being yelled at. Out of fear that she would be punished, she went along with Hale and Parris’s questions, and told them that Sarah Good and Goody Osburn came to her with the Devil. Neighbors did not feel safe having their families near David Calvert and wanted him targeted and located. David Calvert was no longer trusted, and no one believed him when he said he had nothing to do with the
In The Crucible, people were being accused and were accusing others left and right; it was chaos. Just a few times this happened was when Abigail said that Tituba made her and the girls participate in witchcraft and when the girls, as part of their charade, began shouting out random names of citizens of Salem that they “saw” with the devil. The many women they named were brought to court and questioned soon after. Since nobody knew where the real Jon Venables was or what his new name was, David Calvert’s neighbors began to think that he was Jon Venables, simply because they look similar and are around the same age. A Facebook page was made to warn people to stay away from David Calvert because he was apparently the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger. The false accusations ruined all of the lives of these people who were innocent to these …show more content…
In The Crucible, Giles Corey, uneasy and skeptical, told Reverend Hale that he thought his wife was likely to be involved in witchcraft because she reads books late at night. Later, his wife was taken away and charged with witchcraft. Giles regretted that he had ever said anything, and only ever said anything about his wife because he was scared for his own safety. When Tituba was questioned, she was confused and didn’t know why she was being yelled at. Out of fear that she would be punished, she went along with Hale and Parris’s questions, and told them that Sarah Good and Goody Osburn came to her with the Devil. Neighbors did not feel safe having their families near David Calvert and wanted him targeted and located. David Calvert was no longer trusted, and no one believed him when he said he had nothing to do with the