Giles Corey

accusations. People who were assumed to be doing witchcraft was alienated and kept away from society just like people with aids. A man in Salem, Massachusetts, John Proctor was executed because he was falsely accused of witchcraft. Also, a man named, Giles Corey, for the same reason. Trails were held for all people who were accused. The trails that were ordered was unfair, and people would lie on a person stating that the saw them doing something that was of witchcraft such as flying or…

This example was pretty shocking for me and another example was in the book we saw Giles Corey pressed to death before John Proctors death but he was pressed to death a month later after John’s proctor’s…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller provides a historical fiction account of the Salem witch trials. The play, written in the 1950’s, has many similarities to the McCarthyism that swept across the United States at the time. Arthur Miller uses many different literary elements to tell the story of the trials including Irony, Allusions and Archetypes. One element used in The Crucible is Irony. “Irony is a literary technique that involves a difference between appearance and reality, expectations and…

An infamous episode in American history, the Salem witch trials of 1692 resulted in the execution, by hanging, of nineteen villagers, fourteen women and five men, accused of witch craft. Additionally, one man, Giles Corey, was punished by peine et fort, death by pressing (Linder, paragraph 22). These antics could have been the cause of teenage boredom, congregational strife, personal jealousies, and fears of the citizens. The main question is why did this travesty happen in Salem? In 1689,…

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 Lies. Pain. Death. The Salem Witch Trials were a horrible time for many innocent people; to the way it started, to the way it ended. There were more than 200 accusations of witchcraft, 20 executions and many other deaths due to starvation and bad treatment in jails. This event marked Massachusetts’s history, by its atrocious and dreadful history. 1. The Beginning The Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, when a group of young girls started…

Arthur C. Clarke once said, “The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” The Salem Witch Trials, motivated by greed and supported by religion, defines the removal of ethics due to religious beliefs. Seventy-two year old Rebecca Nurse portrays the result of the loss of morality mentioned above as the central most tragic character in the Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible by Arthur Miller because she died respected, innocently possessing a…

Throughout history, power has been obtained in a variety of ways. There have been coups and simple cases of inheritance. Sometimes people use methods such as the use of hysteria. In order to obtain power and manipulate people’s actions, public hysteria is created and exploited. Two examples of this occurring include the Salem Witch Trials and the development of McCarthyism. The Crucible was written with focus on the Salem Witch Trials. Characters such as Judge Danforth and Reverend Parris used…

Sean Goodwin Mrs.Regester English 11 20/9/17 Danforth’s Trial The Crucible,a play, written by Arthur Miller tells the story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. This calamity started when a group of girls started dancing in the woods. When the town found out about this and made a whole conspiracy that it was witchcraft. Around one hundred accusations later, there were twenty-seven people hanged and many more behind bars.…

The accused are; Goody Good, Goody Proctor, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, and Tituba (there were a few more also.) These people were all accused of doing an act of witchcraft. In reality, they did nothing wrong, a bad outcome came from one of their actions and someone got scared or worried for their land, possessions…

Violence, betrayal, scrutiny, and mayhem. These four words describe the crucial events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 that are portrayed in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. What once started out as a pure and faithful town of Massachusetts soon turned into a town full of liars and scapegoats. With the town being dominated through the influence of Abigail Williams and her friends, the townsfolk could only pray that they would not be the next one accused of witchcraft. Even though Reverend…