Giles Corey

significant conflict because the audience was able to see how Giles’s character changed drastically in the time of a crisis. Giles is approximately eighty years old and the elderly are usually stereotyped as quiet, sweet, and boring so him exploding with anger and telling someone he was going to kill him was very unexpected. In addition, another reason why I believe the Giles-Thomas conflict was the most important one is because this scene was the only one which really left an impression on me…

in the eyes until a certain age of maturity. Another way that the female gender were denied equal rights as they obtain today is through topic of domestic violence. The Salem Witchcraft Papers state in the court case of Ann Putnam Jr. v. Giles Corey that Corey “most greviously [sic] afflected [sic] me by beating pinching and almost Choaking [sic] me to death urging me to writ [sic] in his book” (Petition of Ann Putnam Jr. SWP No. 37.6). Even though it was claimed to be his spirit, it would…

Whether it had been the work of the Devil or the symptoms of ergot, the Witch Trials of Salem could be categorized as one of the darkest moments in American history. Beginning in spring of 1692 and ending the following year of 1693, the trial took the lives of 19 Puritans. In addition, the trial accused more than 150 men, women and children over the several months of its occurrence. The Witch Hunt was a time of fear and speculation, it was a time of chaos and bitterness, and those emotions were…

First of all, Giles mostly displays his mindless behavior. For example, he accuses his wife of “reading strange books”(Miller 40). Of course, this was not such a good idea since there are assumptions of witchcraft and this would only make people accuse her of witchery. Like other villagers in Salem, Giles was just another confused person who made assumptions on little to no information. On the contrast, he also…

certain it was of Elizabeth’s doing, yet from the readers perspective you can clearly tell it was an act of jealousy. Another woman, Martha Corey, can be assumed to resemble banned books and media. Her husband Giles had been talking about her love of books and of her reading what he called, “strange books”. There were really no grounds on jailing Martha Corey besides the suspicion that these books were influencing her to utilize witchcraft. The Courts did not like the idea of any strange…

“One of the oddest and saddest periods of American history began in late January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts.”(2) Over 155 men and women were accused and jailed of witchcraft, 5 of these people died in jail, 19 men and women were hanged, and one man was crushed to death. Salem was not the only colony that was witch crazed; however, it had the most deaths and accusations in 1692. In the year 1692, the colonists of Massachusetts were opposed to outsiders and newcomers, this caused for…

The Grudgeful, Greedy Thomas Putnam “Putnam himself accused and testified against 43 people while his daughter testified against 62 people”(Brooks 1). Putnam was seen as a malevolent man and would go to whatever lengths possible to get what he wanted. In 1692, Colonial Salem, Massachusetts became a town of lies and trickery. Based off the real events of the Salem Witch trials, The Crucible tells the story of a group of girls whose minds are set to wreak havoc on the small town that was Salem,…

be so taken with books and I thought to find the cause of it, but it were no witch I blamed her for… I have broke charity with the women, I have broke charity with her. He covers his face, ashamed”(Miller 79, 80). This is basically saying that Giles Corey has got caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials. This has somewhat to do with fear, but mostly with hysteria. Fear because he was scared of his wife doing something to him because she would read books at night and he would not be able to…

The Salem witch trials began in February 1692 when two young children, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris, began to act in a strange manner (chronology of events relating to the Salem witch trials, n.d.), showing signs of fits and hysterics (important persons in the Salem court records, n.d.). During this period in time where fear of the devil was much more common and superstition was a part of daily life for practically everyone it was easiest to blame witchcraft when both girls spoke of…

system of government set in The Crucible is Theocracy in which their god is said to be their overall leader. This government set up nurtured the occurrences to happen the way they did because the court's decisions were corrupted before hand. When Giles Corey, an elderly man, walked into the court with the purpose of restating his past suspicions about his wife, “Your Excellency, I only said she were readin’ books, sir, and they come and take her out of my home for-...I never had no wife that be…