Giles Corey

The salem witch trials were very chaotic in 1692. In the salem witchcraft hanging of 1692, there were twenty people killed, nineteen were hanged and one was pressed to death (Doc A). Giles Corey was pressed to death because he would not testify in the salem witchcraft trials. The causes of the salem witch trials of 1692 are jealousy, lying young girls, and town division. Jealousy played a big role in the salem witch trials. Younger females were jealous of older females, so they accused them of…

In the Crucible, Arthur Miller uses diction to express the different personalities of the different characters. Diction is just word choice used in a writing piece. Arthur Miller uses different kinds of diction in his writing of the Crucible. He used legalistic precision, metaphors, similes, and other types figurative language. The use of his diction had an affect on his writing, it showed differences in characters, expressed their personalities, and it had an effect on character responses.…

his voters aren’t close to perfect its unfair to say every single one of them are these things. In the Crucible almost every single women we met was accused as a witch and most of the men who tried to defend their wives were also killed such as Giles Corey. The issue with Trump and his voters being accused for racism…

hurry up, but Joseph says it is normal to for it to go slow. But there are some good signs, for example magistrate Corwin didn’t arrest his accused mother in law. That doesn’t mean this witch business is being put to rest but it is a start. Giles Corey was pressed together on September 19. Joseph gets news, Thomas Brattle, who is pretty important likes his letter and he wants Susanna and him in Boston. Susanna, Joseph, and Elizabeth went to Thomas’s place, Susanna tells him what he knows…

Their religion is very strict, you come to church every sunday, don't work on the sabbath, and you believe the ministers word like it’s the words of god himself. Anything they have done to go against this would make them look like a witch if they was accused by people of the town. When accused most of them are asked to say the 10 commandments and if they can’t say them then they are said to be a witch. The punishment for witchery if you confesses is to be beat severely, and if you don’t…

In the spring of 1692, Reverend Samuel Parris was found his ten-year-old daughter, Betty, niece Abigail, slave Tituba and other girls dancing in the forest night before. Samuel Parris worried about his daughter because she cannot wake up. Someone already called Reverend John Hale, a witchcraft specialist. When John Hale starts to ask a girl who decides to do devil-worship, Abigail told him, that it was Tituba. In the same time, Putnam family came to Samuel Parris house because of their daughter…

July 19. George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, and John Proctor were hanged on August 19th. Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell were all executed on September 22nd. As many as 13 more people died in prison including Sarah Osborne, Lyndia Dustin, and Ann Foster. Giles Corey, the man who was pressed to death, died on September 19th. Suprisingly only one of the accusers apologized, in 1706 Ann…

The difference between right and wrong, and how to handle a situation like it is still something that is debated today. Some may go the extremes to kill the ones who commit the unjust, while others may simply protest. In The Crucible the characters debate whether or not the executions caused by the witch trials are unjust punishments considering how the court was never really adequate in providing evidence for the hangings. Throughout the play, there were several occurrences where the characters…

their visions of the people being with the devil. Many witches have been found in Salem all which are small girls. “As hysteria spread through the community and beyond into the rest of Massachusetts, several others were accused, including Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse–both regarded as upstanding members of church and community–and the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good.” The case came to the attention of the town when multiple people were being killed at once from one day to another. Then…

The Salem Witch Trials was an excruciatingly violent and depressing time in American history, led by the reactions of a group of girls. Fourty - Fifty thousand people were killed, in all the world, over the course of 300 years because of the thought of them being a witch and worshipping the devil, many before The Salem Witch Trial began. Witchcraft was considered treason, a capital offence, and punishable by death. The Witch Trials were very misogynistic because it was believed that the common…