Giles Corey

I am no “Devil’s man”! What the girls are doing, that is all pretense. My wife, Giles Corey’s wife, and Francis Nurse’s wife are not witches. Rebecca Nurse is the heart and soul of the church. She is a charitable and honorable woman and she always donates to the church. Martha Corey is also not a witch. She was only reading books for entertainment and no matter what this society thinks, doing something for entertainment is not wrong…

An example of Proctor being loyal is, “These are my friends. Their wives are also accused.” This quote exhibits his loyalty to his friends, Giles Corey and Francis Nurse, whose wives are also accused, in which John will not turn his back on them for his own. I can also be seen as a loyal person, as keeping my morales and friendships are important to me. They are important to me because they are…

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" (Abraham Lincoln). In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, many of the people stand the adversity that the trial brings except for a few with power. John Proctor has the power to tell the truth and end the chaos, testing the true character of him. The play takes place in Salem in 1692. Chaos erupts when girls in the town begin falsely accusing innocent people of witchcraft, a highly punishable crime. With…

anywhere without his permission; "How do you go to Salem when I forbid it? [...] I'll whip you if you dare leave this house again!" (55). Women were not supposed to read, so when Giles Corey finds his wife reading a book in the middle of the night, he is convinced she is reading a witch’s book and becomes very worried; “Giles: Martha, my wife. I have waked at night many a time and found her in a corner, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that?” (33). If a woman is able to read, which was…

The word Salem once meant peace in Hebrew, and meant complete peace in Biblical times. Now it is associated with the horrifying events of killing hundreds of innocent people. The Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts were a mockery of justice. as innocent men and women were condemned to death. In the 1630s, the Puritans from Europe sailed to the New World, what is now the United States of America. The Puritans believed that it was their task to create a utopian theocracy. As time…

as a saint because of her good work in exposing the witches so that the court is able to justly punish them for their evil acts. Abigail continues to accuse others to keep the attention on herself and to have the townspeople look highly on her. Giles Corey also frets over his reputation in his last…

The image people often conjure up when the word fear is uttered is similar among the many. It is a negative, unwanted, and evil picture which further proves that fear is a negative and harmful emotion because it causes one who is induced with it to make hasty and rash decisions without a second of thought. It is an emotion that works its magic in a way that no other emotion really does, it comes and goes whenever it is called just like any other emotion. However, when it arrives it carries the…

The Progression of the Salem Witch Trials The play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was written in 1952. He was born in Harlem, New York in 1915. His family lost almost everything during the Wall Street Crash in 1929. After graduating high school, he worked odd jobs to get enough money to attend the University of Michigan. For a student paper, he finished his first play called No Villain. The Tony-Award Winning The Crucible may have been one of the reasons why Arthur came under the House of…

Devil (Miller 160). She is aware that Tituba is an easy target because she is known to practice voodoo. There are many other unfounded accusations made during the trials, including the accusations of Sarah Good, Goody Osburn, Elizabeth Proctor, Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse. The McCarthy trials were comparable in this sense, especially when McCarthy first claimed during a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia that he had a list of 205 employees working for the State Department that were known to…

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hysteria as a “behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess,” such as that of the citizens of Salem during the Witch Trials in 1692. As one of the first groups to settle here, Puritans feared the unknown like the forest, and banded together for protection. With little room for individuality, grudges and other personal disputes built up with no outlet. Fueled by destructive lies and wrongful accusations of others, hysteria evolves…