Elizabeth Proctor

Thought to be the scandalous sinner in the Puritanical town of Boston and the disgraceful mother of a child out of wedlock, Hester Prynne is portrayed to be a shameful mistress in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In a town where everyone acts as if they are saints, as soon as one citizen slips up and commits a human error, that event becomes the talk of the town. In Prynne’s case, her heinous act left her with the undeniable punishment of a child that prevents her from dismissing of her…

others opinions and only follows his own.When Proctor is talking to Danforth about the girls and how they are manipulating him Danforth does not agree and exclaims “ I have seen them stuck by pins and slashed by daggers. I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me. Do you understand my meaning?”(Act Three lines 190-192)..When Danforth says this, he makes it seem like he does not care about what Proctor says and only cares about his own…

Betty faints and now everyone is saying that’s it's the work of the devil. Abigail and the rest of the girls were gonna say that there was no witchcraft involved, but at the end, that didn't happen. Abigail then used this opportunity to kill Goody Proctor so she can be with John. Abigail was a victim in this whole…

Hannah Mary Tabbs and George Wilson were accused guilty of the merciless murder of Wakefield Gaines, which surfaced a multitude of testimonies and confusion in their justice system leading to a significantly long trial. A freshly slaughtered torso of human remains found in Eddington lead to a shocking and brutal murder case. Kali Nicole Gross argues that Hannah Mary Tabbs manipulated ideas of race and gender throughout the case, Tabbs had the ability to do this successfully because she…

Halloween, an American tradition where young children can go ‘trick or treating’ around their neighbourhood, however, this has risen the debate of whether this celebration is a safe or a suitable one to be part of. An opinion piece was published on Mamamia on the 29th of October, 2015, titled ‘Why my kids won’t be doing Halloween’, written by Alissa Warren, implies that Halloween is a ridiculous and an inappropriate event to be participated by anyone. In a disconcerting and exasperated tone,…

Essay: Topic: “To what extent does Marie Antoinette deserve the negative image that has been created about her by traditional Historians?” Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as the coldhearted queen of France who said "Let them eat cake!" while the peasants starved and a few other things that contribute to her bad reputation. However, there is no proof that Marie Antoinette said and did some of those things and therefore she does not deserve the negative image that traditional…

Hello all, I am Baldwin the Pardoner and I have heard of your sins and misfortune. This town harbors sinners within its taverns, shops, and home. Greed and gluttony, two fatal sins, plague this town. Gluttony is the relentless excessive consumption of food and drink and greed is unrestrained pursuit of material possessions. These sins have invaded our people and shall be atoned for and therefore pardoned, without there would be fatal consequences for committing greed and gluttony. Greed is evil…

The Analysis of “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” Provoked by their step mother at the time of a big famine, their father leaves Hansel and Gretel in the woods. They come across a candy house by chance. Its owner hosts and feeds them. Later, she imprisons them and they learn that she is a child-eating witch. They manage to kill her and to escape from there. So is the story of Hansel and Gretel in brief. In its film adaptation , “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)”, the things are a bit…

This line that the First Witch says, demonstrates figurative imagery through the use of a simile. The witch is explaining to her sisters how she plans to interfere with the life of a sailor and compares herself to a tailless rat. This develops the image of an ugly rat and details to readers that the witches will act as nuisances throughout the play. Similar to a rat, they will cause a great deal of trouble through tampering and interfering with the lives of others. A rat is typically considered…

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here” Marianne Williamson. The fear of the world didn't just come out of nowhere, fear came from a source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to…