Betty Parris

Reverend Samuel Parris runs the church. Parris, supposedly, a puritan doesn’t fit the characteristics of one at all. A traditional Puritan is someone who craves a simple form of religion, shows self reliant, selflessness, and is respected by one’s neighbors. A traditional puritan knows God created a plan for everyone and shows patience in receiving a valuable fortune. Parris expresses un-puritan ways in the aspects of his religion, greed, reputation, attitude and paranoia. Parris proves to be a…

Important Characters: • Reverend Parris: He is the minister of Salem’s church. Reverend Parris is hysteric, and depressed man. Many people dislike him, and that makes him very concerned. • Betty Parris: She is Reverend Parris’s daughter. She experiences strange symptoms after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness starts the first rumors of witchcraft. • Tituba: She is Reverend Parris’s slave from Barbados. She agrees to perform voodoo to Abigail’s…

of this in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The first, and perhaps the most prominent illustration of behaving vainly, was the Reverend Samuel Parris. In the beginning of the play, the focus was on Reverend Parris’ daughter Betty. She was lying on a bed, unresponsive and sickly, and wasn’t able to acknowledge the presence of anyone around her. Reverend Parris was anxious, but not about Betty’s apparent illness. He was worried that the village would think that his own family was tainted by…

"A witch is defined as a person who signed the devil's book, thus giving the devil permission to use her shape to go around harming other people." The Salem Witch Trials were brought about when a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil after they were seen dancing in the forest. The girls started displaying wild and peculiar behavior that a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed as bewitchment. The Salem Witch Trials had a negative impact on American history because it caused…

blame falls more on certain people than others.The main reason all these things started happening in Salem was because a group of girls go dancing in the woods with a slave named Tituba. A minister named Reverend Parris witnessed these girls dancing in the woods. Reverend Parris’s daughter Betty falls into a coma and a witchcraft expert is called by the name of Reverend Hale. This is what starts all of the situations in Salem. Although one would say that the blame falls all on the girls who…

Proctor which would lead into using too much her power. Before the play starts, Abigail had an affair with John Proctor. Her desire to have him made her go into the woods and drink a blood charm to kill Goody Proctor. After being caught by her uncle Parris in the woods…

The social climate caused by a lack of government, political tensions, and puritan lifestyle all lead up to the tension and hysteria of the witch trials. The black slave, Tituba, whose role in Salem was to care for the family of Rev. Parris, was accused of a witch because of her knowledge of foreign magic tricks and social status. She then falsely confesses to being a witch and confesses to knowing of other witches in the village, among them, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Overall, the…

What do we know about Salem? Salem is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Salem is a New England bedrock of history and is considered one of the most significant seaports in Puritan American history. Salem was founded in 1629 by the Puritans. Puritans, the people who did not recognize the authority of the official church and followers of Calvinism in England in the XVI-XVII centuries. The increase in the refugee population in Salem, led to a shortage of arable…

In my last paper I talked about the role of visual media, particularly photographs, in social movements. I wanted to stay along this theme of media, but a different subunit this time. Media as a whole interests me, from videos, to photographs, blogs etc. Books, though, are not often considered media. Upon inspection, however, in the past they have had as much effect, if not more, as other media forms. Mass marketed books have the ability to prompt critical thinking, by questioning norms and what…

who I will call Betty Boop, has really opened my eyes for my future. Betty Boop is truly an inspiring person who has touched my heart. For my last journal, I am going to talk about chapters eight through fourteen in my textbook, Adult Development and Aging by John Cavanaugh and Fredda Blanchard-Fields. First, I asked Betty Boop if she has met her personal goals over the years. She had to stop and think about this as we were at the bowling alley having a good time. After Betty Boop bowled,…