Giles Corey

The notorious Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Salem was founded in the winter of 1623, by a fishing settlement that was located on Cape Anne by England’s Dorchester Company. After several year of harsh weather, a group lead by Roger Conant, started to search for a more permanent settlement location. Roger Conant was born in East Budleigh, Devon, England in 1592. Conant sailed from the Plymouth colony from London in 1623 on a ship named “Anne”. Before Conant…

rights of the poor and needy” (Proverbs 31:8-9). In The Crucible, Giles Corey and John Proctor stand up for what they believe is right and strictly stand by their beliefs and God’s will. They stand up against the court because they know the innocent are are giving in and confessing to things they are not guilty of for the sake of saving their own lives, and Gile and Proctor want to stand up for the truth. In The Crucible, the death of Giles Cory and John Proctor help show that one can stand for…

The Crucible is a movie based on a play written not long after the McCarthy era, which focuses on the chaos surrounding the small town of Salem in 1692, where numerous accusations of witchcraft plagued the town. This movie reflects upon how personal profit, community wide terror, and easy justification can ruin both the individual and the group as a whole. “Witch hunts,” as they are later called, are a series of events (often accusations) that have no logical evidence, are biased, and are often…

is spoken, Elizabeth is trying to convince John to confess in order to save his life. 21.d. Content: Elizabeth is informing John that Giles Corey had been stoned to death because he refused to confess to his charges in order to protect his land and friends from the court. 21.e. Significance: This quote holds significance because it displays the righteousness of Giles, who refused to implicate his friends for the sake of the court. 22.a. Speaker: John Proctor is the speaker. 22.b. Audience: The…

fact in Act IV, of The Crucible John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth were talking about Giles Corey, she said that he died by pressing him and spoke out his final words, “More Weight” (Doc.F). Giles Corey knew that these charges were absurd because he knows he is an innocent man by heart so he decided to die happily so his sons can inherit his land and his suffering will end. Both events relate because, Giles Corey and Pete Sagger knew that these types of charges were unjustified, but they…

One incident that sparked a wave of opposition was the execution of Giles Corey. He knew that if he were convicted, then his children would not inherit his land, so he refused to stand for trial. In answer to his defiance, the court used “peine forte et dure”. This form of torture consisted of him being stripped naked and strapped…

Jealousy and greed are very strong traits that tend to turn good people into wicked beings. They are also great traits for destroying lives. For this reason, jealousy and greed had the biggest impact on the book The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In the book, Abigail’s jealousy of John Proctor’s relationship with Elizabeth Proctor leads her to be a very greedy and destructive character. Abigail wasn’t the only character in the book who greatly displayed acts of jealousy and greed. Thomas Putnam was…

Hale comes into Salem knowing the difference of someone who is a witch and someone who is not. This leads to this quote, when Giles Corey is describing what happens when his wife, Martha Corey opens one of her books and he cannot pray. Thomas Putnam is extremely quick to say she is witch, but Reverend Hale stops Putnam’s allegations because Reverend Hale has not seen Martha Corey yet, and will be able to determine if she really a witch that stops prayer. Reverend Hale’s personality is a strong…

falsely accuse his neighbor, John Jacobs of witchcraft. Giles Corey who is a well respected man, finds out about this. He tells the judge, Thomas Danforth. He claims that Putnam made his daughter lie so he can take all of Jacob's property after he's been accused and hanged. When the judge asks Putnam of this, he simply replies, “It is a lie” (Miller 182). This lie ultimately leads to Giles Corey being killed later on. The judges do not believe Giles. They say he has no evidence so they convict…

A magistrate should stay unbiased during the trials until he comes to a decision using careful consideration. Danforth does not act in this way, but rather in a childish manner while dealing with court proceedings.While Martha Corey pleads to the court, “ I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is. Hathorne twists her plea of innocence into a confession of guilt asking, “ How do you know, then, that you are not a witch” (1132). In the courtroom, Parris and Hale are trying…