Giles Corey

The actual events on which The Crucible was based upon started when Abigail Williams and Elizabeth “Betty” Parris experienced violent and strange fits in 1692 in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. According to more recent scientific studies, the cause of these unholy symptoms were most likely caused by the fungus ergot. Due to the widespread worship of Puritanism at the time, this behavior was thought to be caused by devilish witchcraft. Tituba, Reverend Samuel Parris’s slave, was accused of…

Salem Witch Trials Witches The word witch comes from the celtic word 'wicca' meaning 'wise one' or 'magician'. Witchcraft was made a capital offence in Britan in the year 1563. How it began The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692. It all started when an Arawak slave called Tituba began telling otherworldly tales to 9 year old Elizabeth Parris and 11 year old Abigail WIlliams. Eventually, other girls joined in to listen to Tituba's stories. The new group included Ann Putnam (11), Mercy Lewis (17),…

A very debatable topic in America, and the world is capital punishment. To me personally killing someone no matter what the crime is wrong. It has been around since the early colonization of America. In 1608 Captain George Kendall became the first recorded execution.“The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller took place around this time. The setting of this play takes place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem witch trials. In the play whether or not the accused were actually guilty or…

This is additionally an imperative event in light of the fact Giles is the only person who gets Putnam’s sence of claim over the people “below” him because of his privilege and upper class status. Putnam depicts the utilization of fear as an instrument to self gain territory. Fear sometimes makes things seem unclear…

It is ironic on how the puritans were supposeably good. In the movie The Crucible, they put innocent people to death just by the word of a few people. They are suppose to be on a jury by the word of the lord, not by some girls. Instead of putting the people to death right away, they should have just kept them on trial longer, until they could prove that they were a witch. If the puritans were good people, they wouldn’t have killed so many and they should have trusted more people other than just…

Throughout human history, societies have embarked on absurd, fruitless, and catastrophic endeavors. One of the most baffling occurrences, however, was the Salem Witch Trials, which represent an infamous example of the unjust persecution of innocent citizens. Events that occurred during the Witch Trials were accurately recorded and have subsequently been modified into different forms of media. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play that follows the people of Salem and their attempts to protect…

In the year 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, nearly 200 people were put on trial for witchcraft and wizardry without any evidence at all. Of those, twenty were executed by barbaric methods including being crushed with stone, drowning, and being dropped from a ceiling until their shoulders were dislocated. The trials were fueled by the hysteria of witchcraft in the 17th century and made citizens oblivious to the fact of what could actually be going on with these people. Similarly, in Harper Lee’s…

Abigail Williams from sixty and eleven, respectively, to thirty-five and seventeen, enabling the plot line of an affair between the two. Proctor and his wife Elizabeth ran an inn as well as a farm, but Miller eliminates this detail. Proctor’s friend Giles Corey was actually pressed to death a month after Proctor’s execution, however, Miller juxtaposes his death and Proctor’s. So finally Miller chose to omit the fact that Proctor had a son who was also tortured during the witch trials because he…

Catastrophe and Chaos: The Crucible In books, irony is a subtle way of adding hidden gems of opinion into literature. Often, authors use it to develop a deeper, less literal meaning to their writings, creating what is called "layers of meaning" (literal meaning, figurative meaning, etc). Specifically in The Crucible, irony is expressed consistently throughout, and furthers the social commentary that the author, Arthur Miller, is making about the Red Scare of the 1950’s. Arthur Miller uses irony…

The Importance of the Crucible Have you ever lied to someone? Some of the people in the town of Salem had to lie to save themselves from being hanged. In The Crucible the most important lesson to be learned is not to let fear make your choices. In The Crucible people used fear to decided who is apart of witchcraft, who gets hanged from being involved in witchcraft, and some in the town let the fear of their reputation get in the way of their decisions. In the town after people were accused of…