Barbados

The story of The Crucible happened in a dark, desperate time in the United States. This saddening story of witchcraft was written by a man named Arthur Miller. He used the Salem Witch Trials and related that to his own story, The Modern Witch Trials, in which a man named Elia Kazan accused Miller and seven others of being apart of a communist party. The main characters within the story are: Reverend Parris, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Hale. Each…

lives of innocent people. Fear can make someone tell lies that can have a domino effect and end up affecting the life of many people, lies that can help them avoid punishment for things they have done. In the crucible Tituba is a slave girl from Barbados who is accused by other people of being a witch, she is shocked by the accusations since the punishment for witchcraft in the colonies was death. The fear of being killed by the people in Salem compelled her to admit that she was a witch aiding…

As Hale is harassing Tituba to confess to witch craft, Abigail implicates “Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! I always hear [Tituba] laughing in my sleep. I hear [Tituba] singing her Barbados songs and tempting me with—“(The Crucible 41). This shows how easy it is for anyone to accuse people of witch craft. The group of teenage girls use this power by wrongly accusing innocent people of crimes by simply claiming that they saw them in…

have similar policies on the matter, but a much more ominous dancing in the woods. The setting is early 1800’s Massachusetts in a puritan colony. We are first introduced to the main character in the play when reverend Parris, a rich reverend from Barbados, stumbles upon girls dancing. It is never stated why Parris was in the woods to begin with, and it is never questioned either. Parris discoveres the girls dancing and is horrified to see one of the girls naked, and again straying from…

Arthur Miller once said “The job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.” The Crucible, or the time period in which The Crucible takes place, should not be forgotten. Twenty people were killed during the Salem Witch Trials; nineteen people were hanged and one was pressed to death. The members of the court at that time were unwilling to say that they were in the wrong, but one man tried to save the accused by getting them to confess so they wouldn’t hang. Reverend…

Deception in Salem Humans are selfish creatures. People will always put themselves first if they are faced with a dilemma that will end up hurting them or putting them in a situation where they don’t have the upper hand. That may be something small like cutting in front of someone in traffic or something big like accusing someone else of witchcraft. This happens throughout the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller. In the play, people lie to save themselves from death or worse, when…

After reading Amy Tan’s, “Mother Tongue” and Paule Marshall’s, “From the Poets in the Kitchen” I pondered and formed several opinions and reactions about these two pieces of literature. Both stories compare and contrast in many ways. In Marshall’s story, she explains how listening to her mother and her friend’s in the kitchen throughout her years as a child had blossomed her as a writer and a person. Marshall reveals instances of how this occurred and what effects it had on her mother, her…

him with household chores and care for his nine children. Although the two are from opposite worlds, a sexual relationship is formed between them. This fling ended with Benjamin freeing her, and is later met with Christopher after returning home to Barbados. He is the leader of a group of maroons on the island. At first the two were just friends, but they also form a sexual relationship. Before long she then forms a relationship with a young slave named Iphigene. She sees him as son figure when…

“Knowing someone isn’t coming back doesn’t mean you never stop waiting,” by Toby Barlow. Everyone has lost something or someone ranging from a loved one, pet, or an important item. At age 4 I lost father from a mental illness. My father was diagnosed with clinical depression and severe bipolar disorder in result he committed suicide . Being at a young age when the incident happened I never received a chance to familiarize him. So, if I could ask for one thing from Santa Claus it would be to…

representing Bedford-Stuyvesant from 1968 to 1983. In 1972, she was nominated for President at the Democratic convention – becoming the first African-American candidate for the nation’s highest office. Born in Brooklyn, Shirley Chisolm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother until the age of ten. Because of her early years in the Caribbean, she spoke with a strong West Indian accent. Returning to Brooklyn, Shirley Chisolm attended New York City public schools, including…